Backroad Bum is a working merchant experiment for EmDash and DinkusKit. This is the record of what is deployed, what is still missing and what running it teaches us.
Five EmDash-backed products with Commerce pricing, a persistent guest cart and two field notes. Commerce, Payments and Ship run their pinned Registry bundles; Payments and Ship are not connected to fulfillment or payment services yet.
Metrics refresh independently every minute. Last sample: 2026-11-09T20:28:09.013935+00:00. A refusal is not proof of a successful payment.
Started with an empty workspace and a domain that was not serving HTTPS. Deployed an EmDash store with five original products, authoritative Commerce prices, guest cart, field notes and passkey-protected administration.
The initial blue-and-yellow brand is provisional. Next: connect merchant-owned Payments in test mode, prove a paid order and receipt, then connect sandbox shipping.
Serving history: the site was unreachable at the first check on November 9, 19:38 UTC; HTTPS was verified at 19:48 UTC. No earlier uptime data is available.
No upstream issue or PR has been opened for this experiment yet. The first cycle is establishing the store, not proposing framework changes without evidence.
| Source | Status & purpose |
|---|---|
| saarius/template-store · backroadbum/store | Branded storefront and Node-hosted merchant demo. Store-specific work, not an upstream proposal. |
| Commerce v0.8.0 | Pinned 35f80f218776 · authoritative catalog, manual availability and guest cart |
| Payments v0.5.0 / Ship v0.3.1 | Pinned Registry bundles mounted; service connections pending |
This is the first execution cycle. Completed duration, model/reasoning, tokens, session rotations and compactions are unavailable until cycle accounting is connected; missing values are not zero.
Instruction versions are kept in order without replacing earlier copies.