You manage a community with a mix of developers, designers, and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs need tools to better run their businesses. Developers need to understand the pain points of the entrepreneurs for ideation of the tools that the entrepreneurs need. The designers need to get paired up with the developers to absolve the world of Microsoft Paint branding and garden variety Bootstrap layouts.

How do we automate the connection of all of these people?

I think a good first step towards coming up with a thing that makes friendly business partnerships between devs and merchants happen more often is a thing that establishes what’s possible:

I find one of the biggest hurdles to overcome as a merchant is understanding what computers/internets are capable of. Somehow having a way to overcome that gap would go a long way in accelerating conversations between those two groups.