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Ask HN: Is there any community for e-commerce developers?

1 points by sedzia ↗ HN
If I wanted to read news / learn some best practices about: - using e-shops: Magento, Woocommerce, Spree etc., - designing email workflows with Mandrill/MailChimp, - configuring CRMs, - getting customer tracking and A/B testing infrastructure up and running, - payments gateways, - handling invoices, - fast deployments and system monitoring, - etc.,

where would I go?

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dbg31415
Not great ones. Most people who do eCommerce work for agencies, and their knowledge tends to be proprietary and a selling point of the agency. The people who know the most about different platforms... either work for the company that puts it out (and are bound by NDA / biased), or work for agencies (and are bound by NDA / biased)... so hard to get a real open dialogue going about eCommerce. Without equal footing... a community board would fall apart pretty fast.

And... of course, most eCommerce platforms have various certification programs / partnership levels so they aren't interested in giving away knowledge for free.