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sedziaon The next step in ecommerce – replatform with APIs and micro front ends

Headless e-commerce has been growing lately. See the MACH Alliance [1] to find out about closed-source platforms in this space. One thing to note is that we can see more and more specialization, new categories, such as headless loyalty/PIM/search etc., appeared on the market. Earlier this year, I wrote a short article [2] explaining what problems these APIs try to solve (sorry for the clickbait title).

[1] https://www.machalliance.com/members

[2] https://dev.to/voucherify/whats-mach-and-how-it-can-make-you...

sedziaon Ask HN: “Write your own” or “Build your own” software projects

A series on building modern business apps https://www.voucherify.io/blog/building-an-online-marketplac...

sedziaon Ask HN: How did you find the problem your product is solving?

https://www.indiehackers.com/@msed/how-was-the-idea-for-the-...

sedziaon Ask HN: What coding challenge sites should I try next?

We're going to start more business-oriented dev challenge soon, more info https://dev.to/msedzielewski/voucherify-developer-challenge-...

sedziaon Why QR codes are on the rise

Shameless plug: with our API (https://voucherify.io) you can generate, distribute, and track QR codes

sedziaon Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3972-reconsider

sedziaon On the Unhappiness of Software Developers

http://imgur.com/nt0YEfs

sedziaon Ask HN: What tools do you use for Developer Portals / API Docs?

very satisfied with https://readme.io

sedziaon Ask HN: What's your top growth strategy that helped grow your startup?

Sending out coupons, kidding. For a niche API platform like ours (https://voucherify.io) getting SEO right seems to be the best "growth hack". Other than that, top-notch customer service does wonders.

sedziaon Sublime Tutor – Interactive Sublime Text Tutor

You can also check out https://sublimetextbook.com Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izk7yzcb-rE

sedziaon Ask HN: Cheap options for simple landing page?

http://strikingly.com, http://carrd.co

sedziaon Apps that send packages with the Shippo API

Thanks for this article. I'm interested in the way you marketed your product to developers in early daus. What problems did you face and how fast did you grow in the first year? I'm currently looking for kind of a benchmark to compare if our API-first platform is on a good track.

sedziaon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

voucherify | http://www.voucherify.io | Senior JavaScript Developer | Full-time | REMOTE

About:

Voucherify is an infrastructure through API for software developers who are dissatisfied with high-maintenance custom coupon software. We provide a quicker way to build coupon generation, distribution and tracking unlike legacy coupon software.

We are actively looking for a smart and curious thinker to join our team and create a modern developer tool for the sky-rocketing mar-tech industry.

A perfect candidate:

* is a hands-on Javascript or Java developer

* speaks e-commerce language

* knows cloud stack

* knows how to build robust and reliable systems

* has first class attention to detail, while maintaining overall understanding of business logic.

Your job will be to:

* design software architecture in a dynamic startup environment using the latest technologies,

* drive product development, advise on architecture choices and tools,

* explore technologies, be creative and push things forward, inspire other people, share knowledge, and more.

Say hello at jobs@voucherify.io Please mention HN.

sedziaon Show HN: Free random code generator

We released a unique promo code generator. Customisable: length, prefix, postfix, charset, and pattern.

sedziaon Ask HN: Profitable SaaS? How did you grow your business?

Not yet. We realise there's a long road in front of us. Integrations with bigger enterprises take time. Nevertheless we grow steadily.

sedziaon Ask HN: Profitable SaaS? How did you grow your business?

At http://voucherify.io (API platform) we try to follow Zencoder's advice

http://blog.zencoder.com/2012/05/31/selling-to-developers-is...

To put it in a nutshell, this means generating valuable content and implementing helpful libraries and integrations. Then we try to share it with our target (developers, technical product managers, CTOs) through ProgrammableWeb, GitHub and Quora. See e.g.

- http://www.programmableweb.com/api/voucherify

- https://github.com/voucherifyio/coupon

We're a team of 3.

sedziaon Ask HN: Where to find e-commerce software developers communities?

Yes - we do this. At the same time we think we could collect more feedback in parallel.

sedziaon Ask HN: Where to find e-commerce software developers communities?

Yes and no. Our product is an API platform for managing vouchers/coupons. Shopify has this functionality. It's probably not that complex as ours but it's enough for basic needs. Yet the idea is interesting. I can think of an integration with Mailchimp.

sedziaon Apply HN: – Linkedin without the spam

I know 2 from Berlin

http://4scotty.com and http://honeypot.io

sedziaon Show HN: Discount widget

Thanks dang, here's the link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11428437

sedziaon Show HN: Voucherify – Voucher infrastructure through API

Well, although it seems doable in a reasonable time, there’re a few things you need to take care of from dev perspective e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22333237/generating-uniqu...

But from what we've gathered so far the most time-consuming thing for software developers (especially in e-commerce industry) is the maintenance phase. Meaning - the time when voucher campaigns are “in production”. Marketing team wants to stop the campaign as asap as possible, customer service team has to handle another customer coupon complaint, management wants to know the ROI of campaigns and so on. This is what our platform help solving too.

sedziaon Show HN: Discount widget

Actually it's a part of our product http://voucherify.io but one can untangle it and use as a standalone component as well.

sedziaon Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

http://voucherify.io/

because life's too short to implement yet another voucher system again

sedziaon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)

Voucherify | Katowice, Poland or REMOTE

We are actively looking for a smart and curious thinker to join our team and create a modern developer tool for the martech industry.

About: Voucherify automates vouchers generation, distribution and tracking. Check out well-documented API and marketer friendly UI. Built for developers by developers.

http://voucherify.io/

A perfect candidate:

* is a hands-on Javascript or Java developer

* speaks e-commerce language and fluent English

* knows cloud stack

* knows how to build robust and reliable systems

* enjoys being pushed out of the comfort zone

Your job will be to:

* build new features in dynamic startup environment using the latest technologies,

* drive product development, advise on architecture choices and tools,

* explore technologies, be creative and push things forward, inspire other people, share knowledge, and more.

We offer:

* an opportunity to grow in international software and product development environment

* remote

* coffee

* competitive salary

Contact jobs@voucherify.io

sedziaon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2015)

Location: Berlin

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: JavaScript, Node.js, AngularJS, Java

Resume: http://rspective.com

Email: michal.sedzielewski@rspective.pl

I'm the founder of Poland based software house - rspective. We provide top-notch tech teams for successful startups in Europe.

Here's our offer http://www.rspective.com/blog/looking-for-a-cto-and-a-tech-t...

sedziaon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Poland - REMOTE

My name is Michał, I am a co-founder of rspective, a small software house located in Katowice, Poland. We are looking for a long-term business partner.

What do we do? We offer custom software development services: web applications, mobile apps, backoffice systems, software integrations.

What makes us different? We do things that really move the needle. We are pragmatic. We continuously adapt to what makes sense for your business. We value simplicity and transparency. Thanks to all that, we make things happen in no time. And we can do rocket science - yep, we've done that before!

The less custom software, the better. We'd rather use large building blocks, SaaS services, opensource modules, than write a ton of custom code that would soon turn cumbersome in maintenance.

Speaking of skills and technologies? Our team is truly cross-functional. We have expertise in lots of areas. Lightweight node.js web apps, angular.js front-ends, cloud-ready architecture, Android & iOS apps, SQL and NOSQL databases, heavy Java backends, Ruby spikes, dev-ops, full-text search solutions, performance and scalability, one-click deployments.

We love to leverage cloud services to do the heavy lifting. We have experience integrating dozens of SaaS services incl. CRM, CMS, online payments, PaaS, DBaaS, online storages, phone providers, email infrastructure, map providers, etc.

For some more details along with our portfolio - please check out our website http://rspective.pl