Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
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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
#2Congrats, 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 to manage a medium sized store. One area I do think could be improved perhaps is in the internationalization; it seems to me that every product has a single string to be the description, a single string to be the title, etc. with no easy way to localize the text across different regions.
I also am curious about the pricing; the landing page mentions that you can get started for free, and "start building for free", but is there some component that costs money down the road? I don't see any pricing page on the website so for now I'm assuming it's 100% open source.
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#3Personally, I'd prefer the submission title kept the webpage title's "Open-source headless commerce engine". Much more descriptive of what it actually does. Some Shopify customers use it headless but I'd be surprised if even the majority do.
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#4Congrats, 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 and running with everything in a matter of seconds.
Until then you can find our admin and other simple starters under our Github organization.
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#5Congrats, 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…
It renders almost unusably for me in Safari 14.
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#6Congrats, 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…
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.
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#7This looks super nice!
I've been interested in the ecommerce + graphql space for a while, yours seems a really great project, will be following along and looking into migration paths!
I love the stack choices as well, seems much more lightweight and approachable to me than other alternatives like saleor (which I don't really dig these days anymore) or vendure which is an excellent project too but with a stack I am no too familiar with (NestJS, Angular)... So kudos for making this open source!
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It seems to be a Safari + Webflow issue, so using a different browser would be the best solution right now :)
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#9Looks 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.
Re: Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
#10Looks 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 :-)