On my first job ever, when I was an exchange student in Singapore in between 2007-2009, I did API integration for a trade company with Alibaba's APIs or whatever you can call them back then.
You was making a CVS file with product description, putting it on a web server, and directed Alibaba's product feed downloader on it.
Alibaba also had "hosted frontpage" back then. The same thing you get now with a store in *.alibaba.com subdomain. It was actually much more feature rich back then. They were allowing upload of more or less fully featured HTML pages, but around 2010 they discontinued both.
If Alibaba guys ever knew what a gold mine they were sitting on all that time...
You was making a CVS file with product description, putting it on a web server, and directed Alibaba's product feed downloader on it.
Alibaba also had "hosted frontpage" back then. The same thing you get now with a store in *.alibaba.com subdomain. It was actually much more feature rich back then. They were allowing upload of more or less fully featured HTML pages, but around 2010 they discontinued both.
If Alibaba guys ever knew what a gold mine they were sitting on all that time...