I wasn't always a developer  there , in fact I learned more about running an agency from being a line cook than from my studies or any job I’ve had since. A busy kitchen taught me to rely on a team, prepare properly, follow a method and deliver the same quality every time. Those lessons still shape how we work at Open Commerce.

I started as a dishwasher in a small bistro while I was in high school. Over the following years, I worked my way through different stations and eventually cooked on the line during evenings and weekends. I kept doing it alongside university. It taught me that being a good cook is only a small part of running a good service.

In a kitchen, there is a method for everything. Take an onion. I learned to cut rings and to dice, depending on what the dish needed. When you dice, the pieces need to be the same size. Otherwise, one burns in the pan while another is still undercooked. Preparation is about understanding why each step matters, then doing it properly every time.

The same goes for the team.

Podcast: Prototyping with Radu Barbu 

AI is changing the way teams prototype software. Ideas that once took weeks to turn into something tangible can now become interactive prototypes in just a few hours. But speed isn’t everything, the real advantages sit somewhere else and we discuss them in this podcast episode. 

From internship to real-world innovation

At Open Commerce, internships are about more than working through a list of predefined tasks. They’re a chance to work on real challenges and explore new ideas. During his four-month internship, business IT student Rüçhan Duman took on one of ours: making it easier to search through the project information scattered across our tools and folders.

Starting from scratch, he built a connector for Claude that brings together information from Google Drive and Jira, keeping it up to date and showing the documents behind each answer.

The tool is now being used by the team and has also given us a working example of what this could look like for our clients, connecting their project knowledge directly to the AI tools they already use.

Our lanyard adventure

We recently ordered branded lanyards for Open Commerce, and they arrived with part of our logo missing. The supplier decided one element was too small to reproduce and left it out, without asking us first. It's a small thing, but we've seen the same pattern in much bigger e-commerce projects. It says a lot about how good processes should actually work. 

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