First Blog Post

Hello everyone. My name is Eugene, I created this beautiful mess, and I’ll be the one maintaining it.

I should probably write a roadmap. Right now, it only exists in broad strokes, but it looks roughly like this:

• Polishing Telegram and Max: Tweaking everything so it works in TG and Max without a hitch. With TG, everything is clear. “Maxim” is a bit of a mystery—it might already be working perfectly, I’m just looking for ways to test it properly. According to the docs, it should be good to go. There are also VK Mini Apps; we could hook those up too, but I don’t recall seeing much sales traction there. Don’t even think about WhatsApp and Instagram—Meta is a total clinical case, we wouldn’t survive that headache.
• More Marketing Tools: Adding broadcast scenarios and other goodies. Unlike regular websites, the app actually collects a ton of visitor data, so there’s plenty of room to play around. For now, just the foundation is built.
• Integrating AI, of course!! Obviously, we’re going to wire up some neural networks. To the broadcasts, bot replies, data analysis, and wherever else our hands can reach! I have a bit of experience with this)) We just need to figure out what eats up the most time and drains the brain, and we’ll automate it. Let the machines do the heavy lifting.
• CMS Expansion: Porting this whole story to Bitrix and possibly other CMS platforms. We’ll set up a poll, because I honestly don’t know what you and your clients are using. Just as long as Joomla doesn’t win))
• Affiliate Program: I’ll wire up a partner program so web studios and affiliate marketers can earn or save some cash—that’s just the right thing to do.
• API & CRM Integrations: Adding integrations with CRMs and inventory systems like HubSpot or Zoho. Since we sync seamlessly with WooCommerce, standard inventory management already works out of the box. But we might look into deeper integrations with ERPs like QuickBooks or Odoo. Basically, we need to discuss this together to see what your tech stack looks like.
• Messenger Store Templates: We should probably create a few different visual “templates” for the stores. I’ll either design them myself or build a constructor—I don’t know yet, but the current layout has proven itself pretty well.
• Native Payments: Integrations with major payment gateways like Stripe, PayPal, and Square, so we don’t just send the user an external payment link, but let them check out right inside the app (hello, Apple Pay and Google Pay!). You all have your own setups and WooCommerce plugins, so we’ll need to figure out the best way to pull this off seamlessly.
• Direct Uploads (Maybe?): Maybe… just maybe, we’ll add the ability to upload products directly to the service so you don’t even need a separate store backend. Honestly, there are already services that do this, and I’m not a huge fan of the idea—moderating the sale of prohibited stuff sounds like a pain.

The plan is very rough, but that’s the general direction. In the header of your dashboard, there’s an “Ideas” tab. I check it and I see everything. Jump in, share your thoughts, vote on others’ ideas, and we’ll make them happen.

I really hope this project builds a cozy, tight-knit community where we can push e-commerce forward together))