KDuka
In the year 2017, with my partner @jtowett89, we started building KDuka, an eCommerce website generator that could get you an online shop within 5 minutes
With more premium features like custom domain names and special themes, you could customize pretty much every template to your liking + fully functional eCommerce features with dashboard and analytics.
We stopped working on this project in 2019. I learnt how to code with Ruby on Rails for this project. I then spent two years of my life writing this code because it was all the hope I had at that time.
I have a lot to say about how this was built from where I stand, but that is not important, All I see is the work that my young self put together.
I just want it to be out there, whether judged or appreciated. This was KDuka, the wild dream we spent our youth chasing.
- KDuka in Use
- Daily Nation- Create your own e-commerce website with KDuka
- The Standard Newspaper - Want an online shop? We'll build you one in minutes
- First Release Demo
PS:
- Most of this stuff is deprecated, Ruby moves quick
- I would really love to see a version of this thing running again, Unfortunately, I don't have the time to do that but If for any purpose you're willing to try to update this thing and get it running again. That would be awesome. I would totally jump on that train.
- Feel free to use this code however you want :)
- Zero test coverage. Welcome to bootstrapping for a start up with 2 coders
Official Stuff:
- This is outlining the general steps needed to get this repo back and running. More deatils coming up soon
- Install Ruby with CHRUBY
- gem install bundler
- bundle install
- Setup .env file
- rails db:create -> database.yml
- Set up local STMP keys for dev
- rails db:seed
- secrets.yml generation
- Ahoy init
- Run