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Re:Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools by mattacular on Sunday August 23, 2020 @07:52AM (#24251253)
I was going to say "yes!" but then I looked it up that Amazon actually launched before Ebay as a business. I don't remember actually using Amazon personally until the 2000s but they've been around since 1994, almost a year before Ebay. I'm struggling to think of any earlier online retailers who would have been building ecommerce software.
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Re:Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools by howlin on Sunday August 23, 2020 @12:40PM (#24253125)
Especially in the early days, the main competitors to online retail were catalogue services. I would think they have most business and logistics problems in common, minus running a web site.
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Re:Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools by EdwardMSmith on Sunday August 23, 2020 @04:11PM (#24254910)
The Internet Shopping Network launched before Amazon, but I doubt they wouldn't probably have considered licensing any of their platform.
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