DualMode: Unified B2B/B2C Orchestrator on One Storefront

B2B E-commerce
🔥
8/10
Demand Score
Running two storefronts doubles maintenance costs, fractures analytics, and hurts SEO; consolidation has immediate savings and growth upside.
🌊
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
💰
$499-2k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
⏱️
45 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Moderate

The Problem

DualMode is a rules-driven experience layer that runs at the edge and in your CMS to serve B2B and B2C from a single storefront and codebase. It applies identity/context rules to gate content, switch

🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints

This problem has been verified through 1 real user complaints:

Competitor Landscape

  • LaunchDarkly (feature flags)
  • Nosto/Dynamic Yield (personalization)
  • Segment CDP
  • Cloudflare/Vercel Edge Middleware
  • Composable DXP stacks

Must-Have Features for MVP

No-code rules builder (identity, segment, geo, SKU)
Edge segmentation with zero client-side flicker
Catalog decorators (MOQ, pack sizes, visibility)
Segmented search indices and filters
Canonical/alternate tagging and sitemap management
Variant content store with preview/rollbacks
Unified analytics identity stitching
A/B tests across B2B/B2C modes
One-click rollouts and safe rollbacks

⚠️ Potential Challenges

  • Coexistence with existing themes/frameworks
  • Segmented search/catalog consistency
  • CDN cache-key design to avoid cache misses
  • Analytics stitching for cross-mode journeys

Risk Level: Minimal

🎯 Keys to Success

  • <50ms added TTFB at edge
  • Clean SEO signals with reduced cannibalization
  • Single-codebase ops savings within first quarter
  • Broad storefront framework support
  • Operational visibility and quick rule changes

Ready to Build This?

This moderate-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.