What are the main advantages of this project as compared to established ecommerce sites such as Alibaba and Amazon?
Hello bittoyski,
To be better than Amazon we need to do the things better:
The most important thing is that we will be cheaper than the other platform because we are not going to take any commissions or bank taxes. That means that we can offer to our customers up to 15% cheaper goods on our platform.
We will also try to do a better technical implementation by putting more effort into making it faster, more user-friendly while combining everything in a modern design.
In our team, we have developers who had works for one of the biggest retailer worldwide with more than 2 billion yearly revenue and they were a part of the team that builds the fastest site in Germany beating even Amazon. So we have the concept in our head how to handle this.
Furthermore, one of our technical decisions is the platform to be Offline First.
With an offline first approach, data is written locally on your phone device and periodically trying to upload and replicated in the cloud.
Imagine that you are in the mountains or in the subway where you don’t have an internet connection. Our store will be replicated to your phone (is not going to take so much space. We are talking about kilobytes). So in case when you don’t have an internet connection you can still buy the product. You will see in the front end of our website that you have bought the product. But in the backend that would happen when your device finds an internet connection and upload the purchase data to our cloud service.
So instead of seeing an error message, or an infinitely spinning progress indicator that at the end never gets you anywhere.
