#Please help me decide an infrastructure for ecommerce
inland peak
does anyone have any ideas that I can take into consideration? I'd very much appreciate it
dense ridge
Just get started building with next.js and perhaps a headless CMS such as Strapi
Manage payments with Stripe
inland peak
yes I want to have a headless CMS, but I don't know which one to pick, most of them have lock-ins to their specific platform and I don't want to make the wrong choice at the start
dense ridge
Strapi is great in my opinion
inland peak
it needs a low cost entry point that is able to scale well
and needs the ability to be extended with custom fields that I can setup myself
such as 3d files for example
dense ridge
All you need is hosting, but it's open source and you can self-host wherever if you're not going to use their cloud service
inland peak
better yet, we're thinking of also building 3d worlds where people can walk through
dense ridge
Strapi is very customisable
inland peak
yeah that is true
dense ridge
Not sure what you're looking for exactly
Strapi sits on top of a database
And you can manage everything in between
it really is flexible
inland peak
so I'm able to extend strapi to make a 3d environment builder with react components for example?
dense ridge
They have custom fields that you can create yourself
I'm no expert, they have a discord server you could join and ask your questions
dense ridge
inland peak
I don't know if it'll provide exactly what I'll need
but we'll see
I'm just confused where to start
dense ridge
I understand
Anyways my advice is to just start with next.js and strapi and see where you hit limits
Strapi will give you a default sqlite database which you could switch out
Try it out in dev environment and see how you like it
inland peak
I can use stripe for payments I guess, what about a/b testing, page creation, etc?
analytics?
CRM?
ORM?
I'll probably give strapi a try
inland peak
there's also cockpit and directus I suppose