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Open source ecommerce - How Medusa compares to Shopify

SimonFischerSE on March 17, 2022

Open source ecommerce is becoming increasingly popular in the ecommerce space. In this article, we will shed some light on how an open source ecomm...
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Jackson Kasi • Edited

Hello, I just discovered today that there is a magic called Medusa as an alternative to Shopify.

I am really like it, I will going to use this 🤗

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SimonFischerSE

Glad to hear that you like the platform! We are happy to chat on our Discord channel if you have questions or thoughts:
discord.gg/hQPE8FhE

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Jackson Kasi

yeah i do! I already joined and also I get answer of my quition about Medusa :)

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Adrien de Peretti

Great article :)

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Nicklas Gellner

Thanks, Adrien!💜

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Jackson Kasi

Hi 🙋‍♂️, I have one doubt!
Your Mission, Vision & Goal is all about making others benefit.
How do you benefit from this, because your investors will definitely think that they will benefit from your medusa now and then, even if not now?
"I asked this question in my general opinion about investors. I'm sorry if I asked something wrong."

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Nicklas Gellner

Hi Jackson!
Thanks for your question, Medusa co-founder jumping in here.

Our focus is on building the world's best ecommerce platform for developers which is a shared goal with our investors. Later on, we will likely start generating revenue e.g. from making a hosted solution (e.g. Medusa Cloud) or similar which they will benefit from.

In any case, we are big believers in open source and we will never compromise the integrity of our OS project which we think is an essential part of building the best platform for developers.

Hope this clarifies!

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Jackson Kasi

Thank you very much for your reply, sir. I am so glad you answered me 🤗

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Nicklas Gellner

You are very welcome. Happy Friday!

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A K

hello

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Nicklas Gellner

👋 Hi

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Thad Zylka

I believe a better ecommerce platform is Launchcart, better for Marketing people, built by marketing people check it out.
launchcart.com?deal=makw4

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SimonFischerSE

Hey Thad, sounds like a really cool product have not heard about it before. Can imagine that Launchcart is great for marketing people, however, at Medusa our focus is on providing the best possible platform for developers!

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Thad Zylka

Thanks Simon, understand. Having a programming back ground I understand.