Plan B - Custom vs Bespoke CMS and Website solution

[Sysman]

You should get on to the udacity.com python courses. Great way to learn.

Recommended by a former colleague who knows his stuff: Khan Academy

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Has anybody used nop Commerce before?

[tomtomagain]

You have fallen straight into the first trap that happens to most technical people and gone straight to the implementation.

Whether you pay £100, £30 or nothing per month for hosting is irrelevant if you have any aspiration to create a real, viable business.

What does your typical customer look like? How does he get value from it? How are you going to sell it?


> From the start I am wanting to get this one right so need to make the right decision. Any experience would be much appreciated.

Well make sure you have a market and have identified a solution that other people will value.

Nothing more dispiriting then spending 5000 hours coding to discover nobody is interested.

[doodab]

You have fallen straight into the first trap that happens to most technical people and gone straight to the implementation.

Whether you pay £100, £30 or nothing per month for hosting is irrelevant if you have any aspiration to create a real, viable business.

What does your typical customer look like? How does he get value from it? How are you going to sell it?


> From the start I am wanting to get this one right so need to make the right decision. Any experience would be much appreciated.

Well make sure you have a market and have identified a solution that other people will value.

Nothing more dispiriting then spending 5000 hours coding to discover nobody is interested.

WHS. And there are already a lot of people baking cupcakes.

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WHS. And there are already a lot of people baking cupcakes.

WTBS

Important things:-

Find a possible market then create the simplest viable product which allows you to test if you have a market for the product. That is a very basic product that works (just) with a means of signing customers up.

Give that to the first set of potential customers you meet. Then if they like it iterate, iterate, iterate until you have a viable business.

If you don't have a set of potential customers spend £100 on targeted google adwords and try and find them. If you don't get enough people signed up for that amount try something else because you are clearly looking at the wrong market.

As for website language and other stuff. Use what you want as its quicker to write what you know rather than learn something new. Only use a different language if it solves a problem you can't solve another way (plan c uses node for something because it was the quickest way to fix a problem consistently). Pud (of fu**edcompany and other start ups) still uses cold fusion because although its expensive to run its really quick for him to write.

[tomtomagain]

Instead of thinking "I am going to create a product/service and sell it".

Think :

"I am going to conduct an experiment to see if this product/service is viable/wanted" and focus your efforts on that.

I have hundreds of "Plan B" ideas ....... the vast majority of them never get further than a mock up screenshot and a bit of research.

Ideas are ten a penny. The hard part is the execution.

>And there are already a lot of people baking cupcakes.

That's because there is a proven market and low barriers to entry.