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Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
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Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#72Looks very good! I’ve been looking for a headless e-commerce solution for a new product for a while and I might go for Medusa. One thing I was missing was a demo admin panel and demo store to get a bit of a feel for what is possible.
That sounds really interesting! We are working on getting to a demo to showcase it a bit better on out dotcom as well, but we would be happy to give you a personal walk-through of the solution if you could be interested Just reach us on Discord and we can set up a session either in the weekend or next week :-) https://discord.gg/F87eGuwkTp
Sounds great!
I’ll definitely reach out as it seems like a great platform after diving some more into it
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#73Congrats, 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…
A word of caution: every project I have ever worked on that added i18n “later” has strongly regretted it. I18n is much easier to tackle early than as a refactor.
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#74Alternative to Shopify?
Sorry but the title is click bait. Doesn’t even have a demo.
This sounds like more a MVP at best as others have said it lacks a lot of features.
Pricing is confusing, open source with a button ‘get started for free’?
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#75Looks great. Do you have any plans of not being misused for fake shops? Just got hit by one recently.
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Well thank you for the clarification - I never knew of Medusa's origin just the later part of the myth.
I am still unsure how the name of the company relates though, and I would wager that most people only know the later part of the myth than the origins.
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#77Really love that you have starter kits for both Gatsby and Nextjs. I was just looking at Nacelle the other day. Some thoughts below after spending about an hour going through the docs and repo (from the position of an e-com CTO). Metadata - this is a killer Shopify feature for anyone that's done serious integration, and is the secret sauce to a lot of UI customization. I only see it for orders and not products. Reall…
Tom - buy you a drink to talk about e-commerce tech? Contact info in bio if interested
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#78Thanks 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?
I'm the maintainer of Vendure, so I might be able to offer a bit of insight on your second question, after having studied the Medusa repo a little. Medusa devs, please correct me if any of this is wrong! * The Vendure project is a bit older and I think a bit further ahead in terms of awareness and adoption. * Medusa lists a team of 10 on their notion board, plus a bunch of investors. Vendure is just me (plus OSS cont…
Self hosted eCommerce tools which can help small businesses do their commerce without being held hostage by the monopolistic platforms are always in need. Congratulations for building one.
I have added Vendure & Medusa to my curated list of startup tools at StartupToolchain - https://startuptoolchain.com/#website .
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#79Thanks 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?
I'm the maintainer of Vendure, so I might be able to offer a bit of insight on your second question, after having studied the Medusa repo a little. Medusa devs, please correct me if any of this is wrong! * The Vendure project is a bit older and I think a bit further ahead in terms of awareness and adoption. * Medusa lists a team of 10 on their notion board, plus a bunch of investors. Vendure is just me (plus OSS cont…
Big fan of vendure, looking forward to seeing more from Medusa. Don't trip too much, you've had outsized impact considering you're working alone and bootstrapped, taht's worth celebrating
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's well written, customers won't be able to tell
By customers I guess you mean shoppers, yeah they never care nor they should. Merchants on the other hand will loose money if the solution don't scale affordably.
What's the issue with scaling Node.js? From my experience it's pretty easy if you build your application correctly.