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

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Post by IgorPartola »

boringg wrote: post #36
ngellner wrote: post #15

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

Right I guess that kind of in a warped way makes sense, but medusa was also a monstrous mess of a creature that would turn people to stone. I mean I get the headless reference but wouldn't it make sense to be called Perseus (the hero who killed Medusa)? Named after beheading a monstrous creature, instead of being named after the creature?

Pedantic stuff incoming: Medusa was actually a young maiden who was raped and shamed into isolation which is what drove her mad. She wasn’t a monster, she became one in reaction to what was done to her. From Wikipedia:

> In a late version of the Medusa myth, by the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.794–803), Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden, but when Poseidon had sex with her in Minerva's (i.e. Athena's) temple,[7] Athena punished Medusa by transforming her beautiful hair into horrible snakes.

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

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Post by dannyw »

IgorPartola wrote: post #61
boringg wrote: post #36

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Right I guess that kind of in a warped way makes sense, but medusa was also a monstrous mess of a creature that would turn people to stone. I mean I get the headless reference but wouldn't it make sense to be called Perseus (the hero who killed Medusa)? Named after beheading a monstrous creature, instead of being named after the creature?

Pedantic stuff incoming: Medusa was actually a young maiden who was raped and shamed into isolation which is what drove her mad. She wasn’t a monster, she became one in reaction to what was done to her. From Wikipedia: > In a late version of the Medusa myth, by the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.794–803), Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden, but when Poseidon had sex with her in Minerva's (i.e. Athena's) templ…

Additional context from Wikipedia:

> Whether Ovid means that Medusa was a willing participant is unclear. Hard, p. 61, says she was "seduced"; Grimal, s.v. Gorgons, p. 174, says she was "ravished"; Tripp, s.v. Medusa, p. 363 says she "yielded". In the original Latin text, Ovid uses the verb "vitiasse" which is translated to mean "violate" or "corrupt".

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

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Post by zakariaelas »

fblp wrote: post #64

Is there any way i can sponsor or support this! So needed! Thank you!

fblp Thank you very much for the kind words! Similar responses are really the best kind of support. Feel free to follow us on twitter @medusajs and drop a star on the Github repo. We'd also love to have you on our discord server!

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

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Post by raffraffraff »

ukyrgf wrote: post #25
dubcanada wrote: post #24

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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.

Also OpenCart. I've had nightmares about that too, although it is just a shopping cart.

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Post by dotancohen »

owjuhl wrote: post #6
RL_Quine wrote: post #5

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It renders almost unusably for me in Safari 14. https://a.uguu.se/khPaNnDA.png

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

While we're at it, the "Open Positions" page needs some work.

I see that the page is hosted on notion.io so this might be a review of their process, not yours, but it will certainly affect you if you depend on it for acquiring talent. Clicking the links under the "Open Positions" heading simply opens a small text popup repeating the name of the position. In fact, these are not even links so non-mouse-users cannot target them.

Here's your screenshot, tested on Firefox 91 on Kubuntu with and without an ad blocker. https://i.imgur.com/jOEYsei.png

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