Technology

Yuve chooses Spree Commerce 3.0 to help busy people maintain a complete diet without compromising on time

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 much to do and so little time! That is why Yuve founders’ goal is to help people be healthier and more confident by providing them with the best tasting vegan nutritional shake but also with inspiring and informative content like fitness & psychology advice or health & beauty tips.

May 26, 2015 Michal Faber E-commerce, Ruby on Rails, Spree Commerce, Startups, Technology No comments

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.

May 25, 2015 Michal Faber E-commerce, Startups, Technology No comments

Question: What Ruby on Rails deployment setup is best for good performance for a social networking website having 10,000 to 100,0000 users?

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.

May 25, 2015 Damian Legawiec Marketplace, Ruby on Rails, Technology No comments

Question: Where can I find a technical co-founder, CTO, or technical adviser to bring on board for a combination of (equity + salary)?

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?

May 15, 2015 Michal Faber Startups, Technology No comments

Question: Are Shopify, BigCommerce, Volusion, and Magento the only big eCommerce platforms?

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).

May 14, 2015 Michal Faber E-commerce, Spree Commerce, Technology No comments

Question: Which is the safest future to build a commercial website that will be around for a while, ReactJS or AngularJS?

React.js at the present time. When Angular 2.0 is released definitely check it out, but I wouldn’t start new projects with Angular 1.3 at this time as it won’t be easy to migrate to 2.0 (complete framework rewrite). React is solid, simple and widely used in production by Facebook.

May 10, 2015 Damian Legawiec Technology No comments

Question: How do I start building an E-commerce website from scratch?

When you start a business you know nothing. In fact you know less then nothing about your target market since you have your assumptions which might take you in the wrong direction. And there are lots of technology-savvy advisors selling you their technology taking your time which you should spend on your business.

May 9, 2015 Michal Faber E-commerce, Spree Commerce, Technology No comments

Question: Why do developers more often choose Backbone.js over AngularJS in Ruby on Rails projects?

Some Rails dev shops used Backbone.js with Marionette in the past for their simplicity and well working with apps which aren’t SPAs (most of the projects aren’t).

As of late 2014 there’s a trend to use React for this kind of tasks which I highly recommend – it’s simple, powerful, fast and can be used on the server side too so it won’t hurt SEO, which is great advantage over AngularJS or Ember.js. For larger apps use the Flux pattern and you’re set.

May 3, 2015 Damian Legawiec Technology No comments

Question: Which is a better suited for a growing startup – Nodejs or Ruby on Rails?

If your application is a classic CRUD application than stick definitely with Ruby on Rails. Rails is super fast for creating and launching an MVP.