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Re: Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon

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Post by ItsTooMuch »

lelanthran wrote: post #183
egypturnash wrote: post #128

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Constant hassle with payment processors deciding to ban smut once you get too big, though.

> Constant hassle with payment processors deciding to ban smut once you get too big, though. Not doing something because you might get too big is not sound reasoning. When you get too big, that's the time to worry about it.

The payment processors will shut you down even for your first payment if it's for porn. More likely - you'll never get to a first payment anyways, they won't sign the contract.

Re: Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon

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Post by EpicEng »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #114
rocket_surgeron wrote: post #44

Those efforts look impressive but no service will be a version (open source or otherwise) of Amazon until it can place a single tube of toothpaste in my garage 18 hours after I ordered it, which it just did thirty minutes ago. Amazon’s “tech” stack, both consumer- and seller-facing is horrible and borderline irrelevant. Their fleet of trucks and aircraft is not.

18 hours is a pretty stupid selling point IMO. You either need something immediately or you can wait. Rarely do I need anything 18 hours from now. I think many sellers would love to not be locked into Amazon and at least use something like this as an additional alternative. I'm on the other side of the table where I avoid buying from Amazon as much as possible.

>18 hours is a pretty stupid selling point IMO. You either need something immediately or you can wait. Rarely do I need anything 18 hours from now.

Stupid or not, hard to argue with Amazon's income sheet. Obviously most people disagree. I don't disagree fwiw.

Re: Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon

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Post by zelphirkalt »

eastbayjake wrote: post #30

Love open source projects in the eCommerce domain, especially ones that are JavaScript instead of PHP! Two pieces of feedback: - Using a copyleft license like AGPL makes this an automatic non-starter for most businesses, no matter how impressive your tech might be. You'll have a lot more luck with mid-size and enterprise adoption with an MIT license. - You've really built an Order Management System for marketplace us…

Akin to saying: "You should not ask businesses for money for your work, because they do not like it."

Greedy businesses not wanting to contribute back can buy another license and have their way, at least paying the maker(s) of this project.

Re: Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon

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Post by npteljes »

ryan29 wrote: post #46
eastbayjake wrote: post #30

Love open source projects in the eCommerce domain, especially ones that are JavaScript instead of PHP! Two pieces of feedback: - Using a copyleft license like AGPL makes this an automatic non-starter for most businesses, no matter how impressive your tech might be. You'll have a lot more luck with mid-size and enterprise adoption with an MIT license. - You've really built an Order Management System for marketplace us…

> - Using a copyleft license like AGPL makes this an automatic non-starter for most businesses, no matter how impressive your tech might be. You'll have a lot more luck with mid-size and enterprise adoption with an MIT license. What makes the AGPL unattractive? I thought it was basically just the GPL with a limitation on using the software to provide a SaaS product. You don't even have to contribute unpublished chang…

>What makes the AGPL unattractive?

My two cents: it juts isn't in business culture to contribute to public good.

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Post by timdaub »

bloblaw wrote: post #74
ryan29 wrote: post #46

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> - Using a copyleft license like AGPL makes this an automatic non-starter for most businesses, no matter how impressive your tech might be. You'll have a lot more luck with mid-size and enterprise adoption with an MIT license. What makes the AGPL unattractive? I thought it was basically just the GPL with a limitation on using the software to provide a SaaS product. You don't even have to contribute unpublished chang…

Here's Google's stance on why they ban AGPL software: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl... > The primary risk presented by AGPL is that any product or service that depends on AGPL-licensed code, or includes anything copied or derived from AGPL-licensed code, may be subject to the virality of the AGPL license. > This viral effect requires that the complete corresponding source code of the pr…

I always cackle a bit when someone points out that GPL-family licenses are incompatible with large-scale enterprise heavily relying on proprietary technology for value extracting. Obviously GPL is incompatible and that's a feature and not a bug.

If Google truly had to be competitive, they surely could figure out ways to make AGPL work. But they don't have to because for now they're just taking everyone's data practically for free.

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Post by tarunmuvvala »

djangelic wrote: post #230
anakaine wrote: post #219

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Can I ask, out of curiosity, what was the low-code solution they ran with? I've tried a few and been only marginally happy with most.

I’ve been using n8n and I love it. Easy to build almost any ETL workflow I can imagine.

you can zorp.one for building operations workflow.

Re: Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon

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Post by noam_compsci »

nonameiguess wrote: post #100
ryan29 wrote: post #46

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> - Using a copyleft license like AGPL makes this an automatic non-starter for most businesses, no matter how impressive your tech might be. You'll have a lot more luck with mid-size and enterprise adoption with an MIT license. What makes the AGPL unattractive? I thought it was basically just the GPL with a limitation on using the software to provide a SaaS product. You don't even have to contribute unpublished chang…

In this case, there is nothing at all wrong with a GPL license. Everyone is answering from the perspective of a software company. That isn't who this product seems to be targeting. It's targeting businesses that sell physical goods and need a virtual storefront to do that. They aren't looking to fork this and repackage it as a different product. The purpose of it being open source at all is so they can more easily se…

This ignores the fact that AGPL has no strict definition of “forking/modifying”.

So, adding text/marketing copy (see user comment on a restaurant app use case) can be seen as a modification.

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