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Shahed Nasser for Medusa

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What was your Worst Experience Working with an Ecommerce Platform?

At Medusa one of our main focuses is to provide a good developer experience that eliminates the need for hacky solutions. This is an issue most developers run into when working with monolithic and proprietary software, and this was what lead to the creation of Medusa.

What was the most annoying or worst experience you had when working with an ecommerce platform? How were you able to overcome the issues you ran into?

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Aissa Laribi

With WooCommerce, the functionality to update or create products by uploading a csv file available in the console but not from the CLI. Taking into account I had to scrape daily the prices of the competitors, applying a 5% discount, assigning each price to the correct variation and uploading the products. I have managed to do all the tasks programmatically except uploading the data. github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce...
Then, I have used the API to sort the problem, however I prefer to use a Linux CLI rather than coding and sending APIs requests.

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Shahed Nasser

Wow that sounds impressive. I honestly don’t think I would’ve ever expected a complex use case like this in Woocommerce