Cloudsite

Brand-new ecommerce solution platform that allows merchants to have their own online store for FREE, and to connect all merchants together, promote each other in a "non-direct" competitive way.

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Inspiration

The idea for Cloudsite was born is when I realized that the current Ecommerce solution platform and Marketplace did not actually help the merchants' economy much, but in the end up burden more to the merchant with more cost, resources and time.

The essence of Marketplace is that merchants can conduct business for free and platform itself bring high traffic to merchants. But due to restriction on marketing strategy, high transaction fee ( up to 30% ) and fierce market competition, Most small and medium-sized businesses cannot survive and eventually need to lose costs.

While the essence of Ecommerce Solution Platform is allow merchants to have their own ecommerce store without fierce market competition and with their own flexible marketing strategy. But it actually didn't help much on marketing, it only treat the symptoms but not the root cause . Because it didn't bring merchant customer traffic, trust issues and many other factors. So it will eventually burden merchant with more costs and resources .

This is the market situation that I can see near my friends and relatives, which is happening now.

So I wondering it is possible to combine the essence of the market and the e-commerce solution platform to form a brand-new e-commerce solution that can really help businesses break through the difficulties of Covid-19.

Therefore I created Cloudsite.

  

  

What it does

Cloudsite is a brand-new innovating E-commerce solution platform that allows merchants to have their own online store for FREE with zero burden at the same time to connect all merchants together, promote each other in a non-direct competitive way.

 

So how exactly Cloudsite work ?

Cloudsite just like current existing Ecommerce solution platform ( Shopify, Wix ) that have all the basic online store management feature like product management, order management, etc. The only differences is that Cloudsite is totally FREE and yet with full feature access without any restriction.

Cloudsite will work like a Marketplace. It is free and will bring high traffic to all merchants. At the same time, each merchant will have its own e-commerce store with complete flexibility in settings

Next is Cloudsite will connect all the ecommerce store that are created from Cloudsite platform with the 4 key feature.

  • Shared ads concept : Every ecommerce store created from the Cloudsite platform will reserves a place for Cloudsite Ads, which will promote product for different merchants in non-direct competitive way. The other way around, all merchants from the Cloudsite network will promote your products also, so it work like Marketplaces but will less competition.

  • Passive revenue concept : When a consumer clicks on a Cloudsite ads and makes a purchase, the online store also earns a commission from the ads. Which become an automated passive income for merchants.

  • Shared data concept : Consumer analysis data on the Cloudsite network will be shared with every merchant so that they can make better marketing decisions and business directions - like for example overall consumer purchase behavior, overall consumer browsing behavior, demographic analysis based on industry.

  • Shared point concept : Consumers can spend their reward points in any ecommerce store created from the Cloudsite platform. This means that merchants start their business with a group loyal customer base from Cloudsite network.

 

You may be wondering how cloudsite makes money , here is the main 4 key Revenue model of cloudsite.

  • Transaction Fee : Cloudsite will earn 6% transaction fee for every successful order.

  • Third party service fee difference : Cloudsite will earn extra revenue from the third party service like Domain, Shipping, etc.

  • Advertising

  • Backend service : This is one of the psycho marketing strategy, providing free thresholds to lock in customers and then promote the back-end service like design , printing, software house and so on.

  

  

How I built it

I actually built it from scratch by combining different components from different projects. Whole project is built with Laravel framework.

  

  

Challenges I ran into.

The main challenge I faced was that this was my first sandbox development. I spent some time exploring and learning the sandbox environment, but after getting familiar with it, I realized that it did increase my deployment speed.

The second challenge I faced was trying to record a video in a bad environment and a bad network, and then I ended up rushing to the MCD near my house and recording in the toilet ( luckily the organizer extend the submission deadline) 😂

  

  

Accomplishments that I're proud of

One of the things I’m most proud of is that I alone managed to develop a complete prototype from scratch in 2 days.

  

  

What I learned

The main thing that I learned from this hackathon is sandbox development, because this is my first time building an application on a sandbox, so I spent some time exploring and understanding how sandboxes work. Anyway is quite fun and challenge to do sandbox development 😍.

  

  

What's next for Cloudsite

I plan to join the accelerator program or get funds from investment to kickstart this project, contribute to society and help SME around the worlds break through Covid-19' s difficulties.

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