Engineering Team Ships New Commerce Platform Ahead of Schedule
We're thrilled to announce that the engineering team successfully launched the rebuilt BuildSupply commerce platform last week — two weeks ahead of the original target date, and with zero critical incidents on launch day or in the days since.
This was a multi-month effort that touched virtually every part of how customers experience our site: product discovery, cart, checkout, account management, and the admin tools that power everything behind the scenes.
What Was Built
The new platform represents a fundamental architectural shift. Rather than patching and extending a system that had grown organically over years, the team made the decision to rebuild on a modern stack: Next.js on the frontend, a clean PostgreSQL data layer, and a set of well-defined server actions that give us a solid foundation to build on for years to come.
Key capabilities shipped in this release:
- Fully rebuilt product catalog with category management and bulk import
- Cart and checkout with promo code support
- Customer account system with order history, wishlists, and profile management
- Admin platform covering orders, customers, products, CMS, and now — this very blog
- Mobile-responsive across every page
What Made It Work
A few things stand out when we look back at why this project hit its goals:
Scope discipline. The team made hard calls about what was in and out of scope and held the line on them. A platform launch is not the time to also redesign the homepage.
Continuous deployment. Shipping to production continuously rather than saving everything for a big bang release meant issues surfaced early, when they were cheap to fix.
Squad partnership. Engineering, product, and operations stayed closely aligned throughout. There were no surprises at the finish line.
What's Next
The foundation is solid. The next chapter is about building on it — better search, enhanced order management, a more powerful admin experience, and deeper integrations with our warehouse and logistics systems.
Congratulations to every engineer, designer, and PM who contributed to this launch. This one mattered.