Episode 048: Parking Lot Joker
Brian, a former Marine Corps programmer is the co-founder of WebDevStudios.com, co-founder of AppPresser.com, co-author of Building Web Apps with WordPress and runs the New Jersey WordPress meet up group. Brian loves WordPress, Open source and cool new technology. In his spare time Brian aka Phat Jesus likes turning water into beer and riding bareback on velociraptors.
Thanks for the WP e-Commerce Plugin mention chaps! Reminded me of just how far back we all go!!!
We’ve got very high hopes for the marketplace. We attempted to do it once before but it was unwieldy and time consuming to manage so we designed an SAAS marketplace / product manager that handles both the shop owners products but also vendors products too – both get dished up accordingly on the shop website.
In terms of Plugin developers and Plugin partners I think that for every successful Plugin sold on another competitors marketplace there will be another hungry developer looking to own that space in the WPEC space.
Old code. Talk about whew! It has taken us YEARS to get rid of YEARS worth of old code. Unfortunately for us once upon-a-time WordPress was not so uber extendable and we had hack WordPress to support e-Commerce. We’re almost on track now with a clean code base and we’re hoping much the same way that our competitors were able to leap frog over us we’ll be in a position to do the same to them.
And you’re both right about our next release. It won’t be about releasing new features and adding bloat, its all about removing bloat, removing old features and repositioning ourselves to be the WordPress of e-commerce Plugins once again – how it should be in a good moral open source play ground. At least thats how I see it 🙂
If you’d like to chat about Gamefroot or Kiwi.js at some-point that’d be awesome. The level editor in Gamefroot uses node.js and socket.io to talk to the WordPress database – and Automattic just bought socket.io so I’m pretty excited about that. I don’t think we could have made a better tech decision!!!
Anyway take care guys. You know I love your work and when 3.9 eventually hits the streets I’ll be there waiting to talk about those AppPresser and Sucuri integrations for the marketplace 😉
xx