OpenCart

I'm building websites for them.

In fact, I started off with CSCart, OpenCart, WordPress because I didn't know what I was doing.

This was not my game, right? And all I knew was that I have done it successfully for my parents.

So that means I can replicate the same story for others.

I don't have them because I, so this is my principle, because there are so many things out there AI-wise, that if you really wanna, you know, collect, y- you have a lot of things that you don't use.

My principle is I have a tech stack or an AI stack, and I always ask myself, and it's the same thing with a new tool or a new software or a new AI solution, oh, sign up for HeyGen, sign up for Higgs Field, sign up for, uh, what is the other one now? Open, OpenArt? OpenCart? I don't know.

But what I do is I check my tech stack and I say, "What can what I have do?"

Mm-hmm.

And I suppose-

We did have an OpenCart site as well at one point

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if you're a merchant and you're sort of thinking about migrating, 'cause a lot of people get distracted by how easy the front end of Shopify is and think, "Oh, like this is gonna be a doddle." But you've been through a migration where you've got thousands of SKUs and loads of different data points and lots of different pricing issues and et cetera-

[laughs] Uh, Shop- [laughs] Shopify was quite...

So, uh, in 20- 2010, I, I created my first, uh, startup company with, say, Mihail, uh, co-founder, and, um, we started with a platform cor- called OpenCart.

Uh, so we started as a third-party, uh, vendor for OpenCart extensions, and we basically introduced the model for premium open source extensions, because at that point there was no such a model.

So they were either free or one-off paid, and we did like something like recurring, uh, w- uh, uh, freemium.

And, uh, basically this, this worked very well until 2015.

We became the number one vendor for OpenCart.

We had more than one hundred extensions, uh, like number one in terms of sales, in terms of number of extensions, customers and everything.

Uh, but we kind of hit the ceiling with OpenCart because, like, we couldn't grow more.