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Medusa
Company blog · medusajs.com/blogprogrammingstartups
Medusa is the company blog at medusajs.com, writing about programming and startups. Since 2021, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 54 times, most often “The Open Source Logo Shopify ArrowAlternative”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link medusajs.com, the homepage and careers page for Medusa, an open-source headless commerce platform positioned as a Shopify alternative. They mention the product and jobs rather than judge any writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The most flexible commerce platform for agents and developers.
Most-linked posts?
- The Open Source Logo Shopify ArrowAlternative5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-06-03
- Building an open-source comic book store2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-27
- Why McMaster.com is the best ecommerce site, you’ll ever use2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-15
- Two things every MCP author should add2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-24
- We designed an API with a Git-like control flow2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-25
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-11
What Hacker News says?
Medusa ( https://medusajs.com )| Remote | Full-time| Europe + US East Coast #1 open-source ecommerce project on GitHub; https://github.com/medusajs/medusa We are building the world’s most flexible commerce platform. Built for developers with a focus on strong commerce primitives and a framework for customization. We are a small seed-funded ($8M) team of 16 people looking for key hires who want to work closely with o…
Comment linking /careers/solutions-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”Submitted Tesla’s tech stack is a testimony to the need for Open Source as a story · 20 points
HN discussionMedusa ( https://medusajs.com)| Remote | Full-time| Europe + US East Coast #1 open-source ecommerce project on GitHub; https://github.com/medusajs/medusa We are building the world’s most flexible commerce platform. Built for developers with a focus on strong commerce primitives and a framework for customization. We are a small seed-funded ($8M) team of 16 people looking for key hires who want to work closely with ou…
Comment linking /careers/solutions-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)”Submitted Why McMaster.com is the best ecommerce site, you’ll ever use as a story · 18 points
HN discussionMedusa - open-source Shopify alternative ( https://www.medusajs.com ) | Senior Software Engineer | Lead Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full-Time The last decade has seen hyper-growth in the digital commerce space, and selling online is no longer just about having a webshop. New technologies enable merchants to deliver much more sophisticated experiences, iterate much faster on new features, and leverage a large variet…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Submitted A NextJS storefront without Shopify as a story · 13 points
HN discussionI believe the correct link should be https://medusajs.com/careers/software-engineer-open-source-p...
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)”Submitted Build Nike’s ecommerce features using an open source tool as a story · 6 points
HN discussionMedusa ( https://medusajs.com)| Remote | Full-time| Europe + US East Coast #1 open-source ecommerce project on GitHub; https://github.com/medusajs/medusa We are building the world’s most flexible commerce platform. Built for developers with a focus on strong commerce primitives and a framework for customization. We are a small seed-funded ($8M) team of 18 people looking for key hires who want to work closely with ou…
Comment linking /careers/solutions-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)”Submitted Complexities of calculating ecommerce cart totals as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMedusa ( https://medusajs.com)| Remote | Full-time| Europe + US East Coast #1 open-source ecommerce project on GitHub; https://github.com/medusajs/medusa We are building the world’s most flexible commerce platform. Built for developers with a focus on strong commerce primitives and a framework for customization. We are a small seed-funded ($8M) team of 18 people looking for key hires who want to work closely with ou…
Comment linking /careers/solutions-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)”Submitted What I learned from studying 500 B2B ecommerce sites as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMedusa ( https://medusajs.com)| Remote | Full-time| Europe + US East Coast #1 open-source ecommerce project on GitHub; https://github.com/medusajs/medusa We are building the world’s most flexible commerce platform. Built for developers with a focus on strong commerce primitives and a framework for customization. We are a small seed-funded ($8M) team of 16 people looking for key hires who want to work closely with ou…
Comment linking /careers/solutions-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)”Submitted Two things every MCP author should add as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMedusa ( https://medusajs.com )| Remote | Full-time| Europe + US East Coast #1 open-source ecommerce project on GitHub; https://github.com/medusajs/medusa We are building the world’s most flexible commerce platform. Built for developers with a focus on strong commerce primitives and a framework for customization. We are a small seed-funded ($8M) team of 16 people looking for key hires who want to work closely with o…
Comment linking /careers/solutions-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)”Submitted What I've learned from the transition to Next.js 14 with Server Components as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI’d cautiously use Stripe in a way that allows you to switch to another payment provider if/when needed. For SaaS applications, I think Lago is pretty neat, for example: https://www.getlago.com/ (open source, YC S21) And for ecommerce, there’s so much solutions that I don’t know what to recommend. If you’re looking for something headless, I’ve heard good things about Medusa (open source): https://medusajs.com/
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on “Show HN: YourNextStore – an open-source Shopify with Stripe as the back end”Submitted Treating Documentation Like a Product as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPayload has an e-commerce template, but it definitely pales in comparison to WooCommerce. I can't speak to specifics, but if I were looking to migrate away from WooCommerce, I'd look at MedusaJS ( http://medusajs.com )
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on “PayloadCMS: Open-Source, Fullstack Next.js Framework”Submitted Show HN: Open source React-based platform for B2B commerce as a story · 4 points
HN discussion>Stuff like filtering search results is very easily accomplished by a MPA with query parameters to a results page. But the "MPA to another results page" causing an HTML reload with a flickering blank screen is a jarring UI experience . The issue isn't what's "easy" to implement. Instead, users prefer a fluid and responsive UI . An example of a website that has superfast filters in SPA style instead of "MPA results p…
Comment linking /blog/9-best-ecommerce-ux-practices-with-examples
on “Things engineers believe about Web development”Submitted We ensure agents leave feedback on our Docs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionJust scratching the surface (not including Magento or WooCommerce) take a look at some of open source solution which can be installed on bare-metal, cloud or used as SaaS offered by providers. These all are ready to deploy solution in hours and days (obviously as stated earlier the difficult part is not this but the business itself. ): 1. Spree [1] Store Demo [2] 2. Saleor [3] Store Demo [4] 3. Reaction [5] 4. Solid…
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on “Racket for e-commerce (2019)”Submitted Up-to-Date Docs with Agentic Automation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAny SaaS product that uses a rent seeking marketplace to compensate for missing essential product features. Think Atlassian, Shopify, QuickBooks etc. I was very happy to discover Medusa ( https://www.medusajs.com ) on HN recently, a pretty solid Shopify alternative.
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on “Ask HN: Which open source versions of SaaS products would you like to see?”Submitted Building SaaS billing with an open-source commerce platform as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMedusa - Open Source Shopify alternative | https://medusajs.com/ | Remote | Full-time | Growth Engineer Building the leading open source ecommerce platform for developers. Looking for a growth-minded dev to help us target other devs. - Among fastest growing GH projects w. 15k stars in a year. - Recently raised $8M seed - 100% remote - Bunch of passionated ecommerce geeks - Strong growth and data-driven culture --- M…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)”Submitted We migrated to TypeScript and why we didn’t do it earlier as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agentic Automation: Skills and MCP That Evolve with Our Product as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Medusajs MCP moved behind $29/mo paywall as a story · 2 points
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