Question: Are Shopify, BigCommerce, Volusion, and Magento the only big...
Spree Commerce is a good choice to create an E-Commerce website. It’s written in Ruby on Rails (web framework), highly customizable and well supported by the community (several useful extensions). At...
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Question: Where can I find a technical co-founder, CTO, or technical adviser...
Finding a great technical talent for a CTO role is really hard not mentioning assembling the rest of the team, building the culture and so on – did you consider working with a remote agile team? We at...
View ArticleQuestion: What Ruby on Rails deployment setup is best for good performance...
At Spark Solutions, we’ve scaled a Ruby on Rails app from 1000 to 300000 registered users, activity feed, over a 1 million visits and 500 000 sent messages between users a month. We’ve started on a...
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Question: How much does a website for a startup cost?
Almost everyday at Spark Solutions we get requests for price quotes for cloning leading websites in almost any space or industry. No specs, no details. Just a two sentence email. Here’s how my approach...
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Yuve chooses Spree Commerce 3.0 to help busy people maintain a complete diet...
At New York City based Yuve, Inc., they strongly believe that a combination of complete nutrition, exercise, positive thinking and relaxation makes everyone feel and look younger. But there’s so...
View ArticleQuestion: when building large web apps what are things to take into...
Use stable, widely used technologies, don’t let hype convince you (in a month from now there will be some newer, better framework/database/etc). Look for libraries/frameworks with great adoption and...
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Question: How do I outsource my software project?
Find a reliable technology partner Discuss the project with the partner Write project goals Create wireframes yourself or with the help of the partner Agree with the partner on project timeline and...
View ArticleQuestion: What is a good open source eCommerce platform to stock and sell...
Spree Commerce is such an open-source e-Commerce solution. We’ve built a marketplace hosting over 3 million SKUs based on heavily customized and optimized Spree Commerce and a farm of 15+ dedicated...
View ArticleClutch.co Spark Solutions review: Spree Commerce Implementation for Marketing...
Clutch.co, a company that identifies leading software and professional services firms that deliver results for their clients, has interviewed Spark Solutions clients and here’s the second review:...
View ArticleQuestion: What platform is best for a scalable eCommerce solution with 10M+...
Ecommerce site operating at this scale (10 million registered users) would be so custom and so complex with several intertwining hardware and software solutions that you wouldn’t call it WordPress,...
View ArticleIntro to Flux from ReactJS Warsaw by Damian Legawiec Spark Solutions CEO
Our CEO Damian Legawiec has recently been invited to present at ReactJS Warsaw meetup attended by a few dozens front end developers. The presentation included the introduction to Flux as well as...
View ArticleMVP dilemma: fat vs. lean, lovable vs. laughable?
How much should a Minimum Viable Product cost? How much time should an MVP take to build and launch? These are the questions our clients ask us and every time answering these questions comes down to...
View Article15 most interesting events for ecommerce startups in the first half of 2016...
It’s already 2016 and it looks like a lot is going to happen in the ecommerce and startup world. Big fairs, conferences, workshops, networking, pitching opportunities and a whole lot of other...
View ArticleSlack Integrations Guide: GitHub, Pivotal Tracker, Circle CI, Heroku, Rollbar
Slack is a great messenger app and a collaboration tool for teams that we at Spark Solutions are using on a daily basis for our internal and external communication purposes. It reduces email clutter...
View ArticleSpark Starter Kit: Rails, Spree, React, Webpack + Hot Reload and more
This week, thanks to the hard work of our CEO Damian Legawiec, we have open sourced our very own kick-off bundle which we use as a starting point for all eCommerce and Rails related projects at Spark...
View ArticleGreetabl.com business streamlined by a custom Spree Commerce 3.0...
St.Louis based startup Greetabl.com was transformed into a scalable and automated one-stop-shop for creatively-curated gifts and greetings that are personalized with Instagram photos, packaged and sent...
View ArticleConfiguring Heroku, AWS S3 and Paperclip to work with a bucket outside of the...
A functionality of adding images to new or existing products is a must for any eCommerce application. This feature is also included in Spree and with a quick configuration works very well within the...
View ArticleWhy RWD is no longer an option but a must have for your e-commerce business?
You must have already heard about Responsive Web Design (RWD), which is basically about providing the user (customer) with a smooth experience through your website on any device. You must have...
View ArticleHow much should your MVP cost?
You want to build the Next Big Thing. And you have a pretty good idea how it should work, look & feel. Great, now it’s time to find a dev team to build your MVP. But how much should your MVP cost?...
View ArticleSpark Solutions leads Spree Commerce open source project development
Spark Solutions team leads Spree Commerce open-source development project. We’ve proposed the new Spree Commerce development roadmap for 2016 and we are coordinating community collaboration to make...
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