Simple Commerce

This was the day I launched v2.0 of Simple Commerce - built completely with flat-files.

The launch consisted of me tagging the v2.0 release on Github and announcing it on both the Statamic and Simple Commerce Discord channels.

At this point, I was just about to ship v1 of Simple Commerce but I took some steps back to think about it.

Statamic - at its heart - is a flat file content management system. Meaning it stores content as markdown files, instead of in a traditional database...

But why did I build an addon for Statamic that would mean developers would need a database. Wouldn't that put people off using my product at all? After all, people go to Statamic, mainly because of its files approach.

In the end, I made the decision to start development again and so v2 was born.

This was the day that I opened Simple Commerce v1.0 open to beta testers.

This version was powered by a database, not flat-files, like it is now. I had a group of about a dozen beta testers who helped me iron out any massive bugs. It was a pretty awesome experience!