If you use woocommerce subscription to sell anything from pet feed to nail polish, if you use automatic woo to realize marketing automation; If you use robot Ninja to test checkout, the professionalism and enthusiasm of the prospress team will help. I’m glad to join promatics for a closer integration with promatics today. We will also support the continuous development of other products of prospress. There are no changes to existing users. At present, we are conducting onboding, welcome and integration. Then we will start working together to develop a road map for the future.
To view the Q & A with prophet founder Brent shepherd, please continue to read the following. Male Brent Shepard on the stage of wooconf 2016 in Austin, Texas. This is interesting news! Of course, this is for all of us in woocomerce. Interested in prospress? I’m sure! I didn’t build prospress for the purpose of acquisition, but as I began to talk about the future of automatic, I understood better that my excitement about the unique opportunities that can only be obtained through this action captured my heart. imagination.
What do you think this means for subscribing to woocommerce? It will hardly change in the short term. The same team will develop and support the same code base. In the long run, I am happy to explore how to integrate the unique resources and subscriptions of automatic to create a world-class product that can only be owned by us working in the same team. More specifically, this may mean viewing the close relationship with payment processing or integration with other platforms, such as wordpress.com. In addition, in order to better expand woocommerce and subscription, there are still several points to be solved. Interestingly, these problems are almost the same in both code bases. In order to solve the problem, we hope to cooperate more closely than ever before, so as to implement the solution in a shorter time.
I am quietly convinced that we can realize all MBA dreams, realize the synergy between subscriptions and existing automatic resources, and provide more value to everyone. As the founder of prospress, what does this acquisition mean to you? I’m proud of our achievements at prospress. Over the years, I have enjoyed the surprise of people with me. Together, I believe I completed the important tasks for me earlier than prospress and woocomerce. I think joining automated is the best next step for prospress. I am personally happy to lead the transformation and work with the automated team to develop woocomerce.
When did you build the first woocommerce store? The first test woocommerce store was created in 2011. The first website is love. What do you like best about open source software? Just one? I like it. I don’t need permission. As long as you have the right idea, anyone can access freely released open source software and do amazing things. For projects such as woocomerce, anyone can create a better future anytime, anywhere without the permission of traditional gateway administrators such as educational institutions or proprietary software suppliers.
I also like possible collaboration centered on open source. Whoever sees progress, makes contributions, or develops in an open place that ordinary people can criticize is a revolutionary model. Did that for 10 years
It was amazing how easy it was to forget that time. Do you have any suggestions for woocomerce extension developer volunteers? Start with a problem that no one can solve. Once you have created a solution for a single problem, you can find the user. If you want to quickly find users and avoid marketing, woomerce. You can also apply for extension deployment through COM. Its reach and marketing were of great help in my early days as a solo developer.
How did automatic woo and robot Ninja come into being? Robot Ninja comes from two aspects: Internal needs to test complex configurations related to the distribution of subscription products, and a questionnaire survey of the woocomerce community found that 77% of store owners regularly manually test counters. Because of the first problem, I know the second problem can be solved. Although not easy, considering that two excellent people (Jason and Matt) can connect to almost all stores, we worked very hard to run the pre built simulated mouse click and keyboard input product group to test woommerce. Check.
Automatic woo has a completely different origin story. Dan used to work for an agency and created similar code at woocommerce stores, such as sending follow-up emails for specific schedules or events. He realized that basic tools for automating routine tasks based on events, rules and tasks could help shopkeepers save time and increase sales. Automatic woo and Dan joined prospress in 2018 to help grow the team behind the product.
Everyone likes to say good things. So, what is small world? I’m glad you asked me! This is one of my proudest things. I made it on prospress. In the early days of prospress, we explored several different types of content in blogs. Our favorite is to share the story of woocommerce entrepreneurs. We finally took part in their words and made a small book in order to bring great inspiration to store owners. This book is called small world. After development, we decided to transfer all interviews to a dedicated blog with the same name.
Acquisition takes time and energy. How do you spend the next day? Sleep in as long as the children allow— Thank Brent for taking the time to share the answers to all the above questions. That’s all for today.
