What do you need for UCP? There are two levels of UCP readiness. The first is the minimum viable manifest — the bare requirements to pass validation and appear in the UCP directory. The second is the agent-ready setup — what it actually takes for an AI agent to browse, cart, and check out at your store without friction. Think of this as your UCP checklist — the minimum requirements plus the recomm
How I Built a Bitcoin-Only Digital Store (No Stripe, No PayPal) What happened when I deleted my payment processor and embraced financial sovereignty I still remember the day Stripe froze my account. A client disputed a $200 payment and before I could even respond, my entire balance was locked. Three weeks of emails. Two verification requests. And ultimately, a 30-day hold while they "investigate
"OK, I understand the RPS formula. But is our RPS — actually — high or low compared to our industry?" Right after I published the RPS-definition guide last week, this was the most common question I got back from EC operators. They want to know where they sit, not just how to compute the number. Knowing your RPS is $1.20 means nothing if you don't know whether that's the industry median, the top qu
For years, I called myself a web designer. Then a developer. Then a digital consultant. None of those titles ever felt quite right. Because clients weren't just asking me to build things. They were asking me to solve problems. Slow sites, broken checkouts, confusing navigation, teams that couldn't figure out how to update their own content. That's when I realized what a technology solutions profes
I run a flower shop in Munich and recently migrated my entire e-commerce setup to Medusa v2. The shop, the One thing that was completely missing: a connection to Lexware Office, which is the most popular accounting software So I built LexBridge - an open-source Medusa v2 plugin that automates the entire invoicing workflow. What it does When a customer places an order, the plugin: Looks up the cust