Idea 💡

Paramerch is not only an internal merchandise delivery service. It is an in-house brand of clothing and accessories. It aims to shift to a more sustainable approach by designing simple and practical items. These items are produced from durable materials and sourced from local manufacturers.

Core principles

• Sustainable materials 🧵 Paramerch is based on a responsible approach to the design of the items. It seeks to use only high-quality and durable fabrics and sturdy fastening products. For decoration and prints, it uses long-lasting embroidery and silkscreen printing.
• Diversity 🌈 While launching the first collection, Paramerch avoided creating boring items. It focused on strange but necessary things instead.
• Local artisans 🦄 Paralect has a lot of experience working with local craftspeople who put their heart into what they do. So this project does not only support start-ups and small businesses but also excludes greedy suppliers, resellers and other exploiters from the process.

Tokenomics 🪙

In our age of decentralization and the rise of tokenomics, we decided to apply this approach and use made-up currency (coins or points). These tokens serve as awards and incentive mechanisms for the employees. Such socially useful things as mentoring, launching new products, participation in internal projects and public speaking are not forgotten but always encouraged.

An experienced reader can see in this DAO, so kind of. Employees is peers and the Paramerch team is the “DAO Committee”. Peers can create a proposal that they commit socially useful off-chain action so DAO Committee can initiate an on-chain transaction. The committee allowed revoking the transaction, as well. So in simple words, it acts as a guarantor.

Technology radar 📡

For a long time, we have been thinking about how we can make the application fast, simple and affordable. And the Jamstack architecture fits our requirements perfectly!

Why Jamstack? 🤔

• Performance! When it comes to minimizing the time to the first byte, nothing beats pre-built files served over a CDN.
• Better Security! With server-side processes abstracted into microservice APIs, surface areas for attacks are reduced.
• Scaling! When your deployment amounts to a stack of files that can be served anywhere, scaling is a matter of serving those files in more places. CDNs are perfect for this, and often include scaling in all of their plans.

Comparison of Jamstack with classic Architecture

Stack 📚

For the front-end, we decided to choose Next.js using these serverless functions.