Hello everyone.
First of all, I'd like to thank everyone at ThirtyBees.
That said, I've managed large forums using vBulletin (I don't mean to advertise). It was fantastic paid software; people paid for it if they really wanted to run a serious forum. But nowadays, people don't consider the work that goes into it; they want it for free and they want it to work like a charm...
I'm a programmer, I'm pretty good with Go, but I love PHP (I absolutely hate Symfony). I don't consider myself skilled enough to build an e-commerce site. I've done other projects, but a store is scary to mess up, so here we are. Finding a product like ThirtyBees puts a little smile on my face.
I believe that ThirtyBees should ideally be a paid license product (like Xenforo, the previous developers of vBulletin). That's the way forward. I'm sure that back in the 2000s/2008s there would have been hundreds of sponsors and donations, just like with SMF, PHPBB, etc., but that's no longer the case.
I know many people who even tell me, "Bagg, Shopify makes everything so easy." Really? A system, users, private data, etc., that will never truly belong to you? But of course, for $30 a month you get your own cool store...
I'm very pessimistic about buying PrestaShop, and the poor choice of Symfony as the framework. Even phpBB already uses the Symfony core...
And here we are. Seeing this thread makes me reconsider ThirtyBees precisely because of what's being said: people are indifferent, nobody wants to donate, there are no funds, and people aren't here to waste their time offering something for free that no one supports, which will cause this project to fail like PrestaShop did.
So here I am, watching the days go by without knowing exactly which system to use in the future, and after reading this thread, PrestaShop is completely out of the question.
P.S. Excuse my English, I'm from Spain. ;)
