Medusa - The open-source Shopify alternative | Product Hunt

Hi everyone and gm!

When Oliver and I were running our e-commerce agency and helping merchants scale to global markets, we often found ourselves in situations where the recommended solutions for problems on platforms like Shopify were so “hacky” that we were cringing while writing the code.

We decided to do something about it by building the platform we always wanted: Medusa - an open-source alternative to Shopify, that is headless, highly customizable, and developer-friendly!

We built Medusa in collaboration with Tekla Fabrics, who in less than 2 years grew from a small domestic brand to now selling to more than 50 countries around the world. In the process, we learned how important it is for fast-growing e-commerce businesses to be able to change out parts of their tech-stack in a quick and efficient way so we have built Medusa’s architecture to allow for exactly that!

Out of the box, you get a beautiful and user-friendly admin system and a commerce engine with extremely powerful default implementations for dealing with products, orders, payments, customers, promotions, taxes, search, and much more, and the most amazing thing is that when you need to you can take full control over any part of Medusa and make it your own. We hope that you all give Medusa a try and get a chance to feel the same empowerment that we felt when working with the first version of Medusa. We believe that by making developers more powerful and giving them more options, we can change the way that e-commerce businesses operate and help enable commerce for a whole new generation of companies.

Feel free to dig through our code on Github: https://github.com/medusajs/medusa, or join our amazing Discord community of helpful Medusers at: https://discord.gg/medusajs.

💜 Seb, Oli, Nick