Looks nice but to be a Shopify alternative, headless is not the way. Does it come with batteries included so I can plug and play after a quick installation ? Headless makes me think that I have write my own interfaces which then is not really a shopify alternative. As a developer though, I like it.
Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
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#22Congrats, 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…
Something about the landing page invoked Team Treehouse visual style: https://teamtreehouse.com/
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#23Earlier 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 :)
Could be an issue with content blockers and safari. The page works fine with safari for me.
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#24Congrats, 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…
My biggest problem is there is zero discussion on why this is better/worse then the other 500 options available.
WooCommerce, Craft Commerce, Drupal Commerce, Magento, Vendura, etc all offer APIs to build a headless ecommerce platform.
Why is this better/worse?
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#25Congrats, 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…
My biggest problem is there is zero discussion on why this is better/worse then the other 500 options available. WooCommerce, Craft Commerce, Drupal Commerce, Magento, Vendura, etc all offer APIs to build a headless ecommerce platform. Why is this better/worse?
I mean right off the bat it means not having to maintain WordPress, Craft, Drupal, Magento. I've maintained all of those at some point over the years and I'll probably have nightmares tonight now that you reminded me of them. Don't know Vendura.
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#26Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#27Looks nice but to be a Shopify alternative, headless is not the way. Does it come with batteries included so I can plug and play after a quick installation ? Headless makes me think that I have write my own interfaces which then is not really a shopify alternative. As a developer though, I like it.
It is also not a Shopify alternative in that Shopify is a service and not just software.
Its like comparing "raw organic apples" to "Apple cider made with conventionally farmed apples"
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
My biggest problem is there is zero discussion on why this is better/worse then the other 500 options available. WooCommerce, Craft Commerce, Drupal Commerce, Magento, Vendura, etc all offer APIs to build a headless ecommerce platform. Why is this better/worse?
I mean right off the bat it means not having to maintain WordPress, Craft, Drupal, Magento. I've maintained all of those at some point over the years and I'll probably have nightmares tonight now that you reminded me of them. Don't know Vendura.
Isn't it just a matter of time until this one also becomes hard to maintain? These other platforms are complicated for a reason and that is that ecommerce isn't easy. Localizations (Medusa doesn't seem to have a proper system for that yet according to the top comment), deep support for taxes in various countries, changing tax rates, b2b and b2c price rates etc.
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#29Looks nice but to be a Shopify alternative, headless is not the way. Does it come with batteries included so I can plug and play after a quick installation ? Headless makes me think that I have write my own interfaces which then is not really a shopify alternative. As a developer though, I like it.
It is also not a Shopify alternative in that Shopify is a service and not just software. Its like comparing "raw organic apples" to "Apple cider made with conventionally farmed apples"
The service part is just how it is distributed. I would say it is ok to claim as Open Source Shopify alternative if you can install and get it running in a few minutes and could be used by a non technical ecommerce business owner.
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#30Very impressive work! This seems promising and well thought-out. I plan on taking a deeper look at this especially regarding payments.
Thank you so much!
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