Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify

#11

Post by raman162 » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 5:07 PM UTC

Very impressive work! This seems promising and well thought-out. I plan on taking a deeper look at this especially regarding payments.

Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify

#12

Post by vira28 » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 5:08 PM UTC

Awesome work.

How does it differ from WooCommerce? Perhaps that might my other question. What is headless ecommerce platform? Thanks.

Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify

#13

Post by jazzyjackson » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC

i’ve gotta ask, why name it Medusa?

Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify

#14

Post by Bishop_ » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 5:24 PM UTC

The linkedin and github links in the footer aren't set. Best of luck.

Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify

#15

Post by ngellner » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 5:29 PM UTC

jazzyjackson wrote: post #13

i’ve gotta ask, why name it Medusa?

Great question! If you check how the Greek Medusa ended her life then you might see some linkage with building headless ;-)

Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify

#16

Post by blitzar » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 5:30 PM UTC

owjuhl wrote: post #8

owjuhl wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry - my bad! Will fix that immediately. Thanks for showing it.

It seems to be a Safari + Webflow issue, so using a different browser would be the best solution right now :)

Your main logo (top left hand corner) directs to a bad url btw.

Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify

#17

Post by vorpalhex » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 5:56 PM UTC

vira28 wrote: post #12

Awesome work. How does it differ from WooCommerce? Perhaps that might my other question. What is headless ecommerce platform? Thanks.

A headless ecommerce platform is an API first ecommerce platform where you build your own FEs on it.

Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify

#18

Post by mariushn » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 5:59 PM UTC

Thanks for building it as open source! Few q's:

1. It doesn't seem to be multi-tenant (that is, hosting multiple shops/companies with one db). Are there plans to add multi-tenancy?

2. What are the major differences vs https://github.com/vendure-ecommerce/vendure ? (another nodejs solution, with included Admin panel and storefront)

3. How do you plan to monetize?

Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify

#19

Post by sent-hil » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 6:10 PM UTC

Interesting project. Couple questions:

1. What separates you from Spree which recently started offering a headless platform as well?

2. Do you support Tax/Shipping calculations?

3. Where can I see a list of all supported integrations?

4. Do you offer deployment options?

Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify

#20

Post by moneywoes » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 6:18 PM UTC

owjuhl wrote: post #4

Reubend wrote: post #2

Congrats, this is one of the best landing pages I've seen this year. It looks really nice, and I love the idea of a headless ecommerce platform, especially one that comes with a nice backend GUI for managing inventory, etc. I took a quick look through the documentation as well, and was pleasantly surprised by the maturity of the features that it has. This provides pretty much all of the basics I think one would need…

Many thanks for the kind words Reubend! And the feedback for internationalization is on point; it is in our roadmap to add a localization element to the core. Though, not in the very near future, since this is more a nice-to-have feature compared to a lot of other things in these early stages. You are correct in regards to pricing. We are 100% open source, and are soon to release an easy `npx` command to get you up a…

What did you use to build the landing page? Also the GitHub and LinkedIn buttons don’t work on it