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spreecommerce.com
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spreecommerce.com is the company blog at spreecommerce.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2009, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “The Future of Spree Open Source Software”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Spree Commerce's site as an open-source Rails e-commerce platform, usually suggested as a self-hosted shopping cart or a starting point for building an online store.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-04-16
- /3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-01-25
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-01-29
- The Future of Spree Open Source Software2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-29
What Hacker News says?
For a developer? Hm, foxy cart, or spree (open source): http://spreecommerce.com/
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on “"Programmer. Come Work For Us"”Submitted Spree 1.0.0 Released as a story · 7 points
HN discussionAs a user of Docker, I'm excited. But as someone who uses the dotCloud PaaS right now to run a company, I'm a little annoyed, mostly at myself for not seeing this coming. Clearly there's a diversion of resources away from the dotCloud PaaS to Docker, and that's going to have a toll somewhere. Despite the company's reassurances that everything is business as usual, I know that Docker [the project] is just too much of…
Comment linking /blog/spreeconf-DC-speaker-highlight-john-feminella
on “Dotcloud becoming Docker”Submitted Latin America is Poised for an E-Commerce Boom as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot having a demo available is beyond ridiculous. I asked about it in their forums and was told to email sales. I went ahead with the purchase anyway. It would not take much for them to setup a personal sandbox demo just like spree commerce does ( http://spreecommerce.com/demo ) It can't be that they don't want people to think the product is too complicated before purchase, as their after purchase help docs are limi…
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on “WordPress has left the building”Submitted Has Heartbleed Made You Think Twice About Open Source Security? Think Again. as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe semantic information is already in the selector that pops up, e.g. '.headline'. I don't see why they need to store anything elaborate to make that portable. The scope of the change (document, document type, section, site) isn't shown but presumably it defaults to 'type'. BTW the in-place edit features remind me a lot of this[1] use of Deface[2] in Spree[3] [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjgQHzYcxIQ [2] https…
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on “The CMS Is Broken.”Submitted The Future of Spree Open Source Software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://spreecommerce.com
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on “EBay Inc. Agrees to Acquire Magento”Submitted The Future of Spree Open Source Software as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe most prevalant rails one is Spree: http://spreecommerce.com I'm in the opening stages of building a spree site right now, and at this early point it seems really good. The developers are responsive on irc and on the list, and the repo gets regular pushes. Its a rails3 engine, and makes full use of this and other rails3 features, plus the devs have extensive plans to use the various 3.1 improvements. It's really…
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on “EBay Inc. Agrees to Acquire Magento”Submitted Why Site Search and Navigation Matter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou should partner with http://spreecommerce.com and sell an integration into the spree backend. They're good people, hit them up on irc.
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on “Revenue Management for Meth Dealers in Flint (Fiction)”Submitted Google Express and the Future of E-Commerce as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe example that springs to mind is Spree ( https://spreecommerce.com/ ). Spree itself is open source, but Spree Commerce make their money from support, implementation and premium offerings.
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on “Ask HN: Is it foolish to open source your SAAS business source code?”Submitted Making the Right Data Driven Decisions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you're not tied to PHP, check out Spree[1] or its fork Solidus[2]. [1] https://spreecommerce.com/ [2] http://solidus.io/
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on “Show HN: Thirty Bees – A PrestaShop 1.6 fork”Submitted Novel Ways of Using Dokku for E-Commerce as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://spreecommerce.com is the best I could find, I've recently been customizing it for a client.
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on “Ask HN: Best practices for server redundancy?”Submitted Top Five Hidden Costs of Building an E-Commerce Platform Alone as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'd highly recommend Spree ( http://spreecommerce.com/tour ). It's based around the payment processor that Shopify uses, and it supports a lot of the more advanced Google Analytics features.
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on “Ask HN: What self-hosted shopping cart should I buy to do easy A/B testing?”If PHP is a constraint, I suppose I understand using it. I would think that Spree ( http://spreecommerce.com/ ) would be the best option, all things being equal.
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on “Moving Ecommerce Platforms”http://spreecommerce.com/
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on “Ask HN: Ecommerce Shopping Cart Recommendation”Have a look at https://spreecommerce.com ( https://github.com/spree/spree ). You'd still have to setup the backend though I think they offer hosting solutions now. Shopify has an extensive API. You'd be able to create your own frontend with or without their shopping cart, with or without their checkout process and with or without third-party whitelabel shipping.
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on “Ask HN: Does an API-only shopping cart exist?”Really love Lemonstand ( http://www.lemonstandapp.com ). Super well developed and has been easy to customize. Great support. For simple, quick projects, I've used Shopify (hosted) and had a very good experience with it. Their team is very active and constantly adds new features and improvements. Our experience with Magento was a mess - we found it very difficult to work with, and far overkill for what we needed. I'v…
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on “Ask HN: best eCommerce Platform”Your question is too broad, so I'm going to give a broad answer. I would use the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails framework and customize the Spree http://spreecommerce.com/ E-Commerce software.
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on “Ask HN: How to develop a eCommerce website.”Well before that volume of sales, people generally set up a merchant account and use a payment processing gateway like Braintree or Authorize.net instead of one of these intermediated systems. You can then negotiate your rates down below what Shopify+ charges. (You can also configure your own gateway with Shopify. Here is a list of the ones supported in the UK: https://www.shopify.com/payment-gateways/united-kingdom…
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on “Ask HN: $500k revenue business – Shopify vs. Custom website?”http://spreecommerce.com/features seems like a good fit for what you're looking for.
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on “Ask HN: Suggestions for ecommerce portal in Ruby?”
