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medusa

The world's most flexible commerce platform for agents and developers

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37.2KGitHub stars
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The world's most flexible commerce platform for agents and developers

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It’s not as far-fetched as people think. I see so many comments here doubting you can vibe code a full CRM or e-commerce SaaS, but a skilled AI-assisted programmer absolutely can, especially if they're aware of strong open-source alternatives already out there. For Salesforce-like CRM, there's Twenty[0], a good-enough alternative. For Shopify-style e-commerce, Medusa[1] is a headless commerce platform. The real power comes from using AI to study how these projects implement specific features (payments, inventory, customer dashboards, etc.) and adapt them to your stack. AI excels at finding the "seams" (those connection points where a feature ties into the tech stack) and grasping the full implementation. The trick is knowing precisely where the feature lives in the code (files, functions, modules), because AIs often miss scattered pieces
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otherwise. That's what I'm building at opensource.builders[2]: turning OSS repos into a modular cookbook with structured "skills" that point to exact details for reliable remixing and porting. SaaS companies are forever beholden to raising their market cap, even in solved spaces like cart, payment processing, and CRMs. Most businesses run on CRUD apps anyway, and if your core app exposes an API, you can build any customization you need on top of it. People here discounting how valuable it is for a business to have the software that runs their business on a tech stack they understand and something they truly own. [0] https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty [1] https://github.com/medusajs/medusa [2] https://opensource.builders
In AI is killing B2B SaaS
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 our founding team to build the next generation of commerce infrastructure. We are looking for engineers motivated to tackle complex problems and who care about crafting great products for developers. --- Tech stack: Node, Typescript, Postgres. - Full Stack Engineers for our core team: https://medusajs.com/careers/software-engineer/ - Solutions Engineer to support users building with Medusa: https://medusajs.com/careers/solutions-e
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In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)
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 our founding team to build the next generation of commerce infrastructure. We are looking for engineers motivated to tackle complex problems and who care about crafting great products for developers. --- Tech stack: Node, Typescript, Postgres. - Full Stack Engineers for our core team: https://medusajs.com/careers/software-engineer/ - Solutions Engineer to support users building with Medusa: https://medusajs.com/careers/solutions-e
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In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)
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 18 people looking for key hires who want to work closely with our founding team to build the next generation of commerce infrastructure. We are looking for engineers motivated to tackle complex problems and who care about crafting great products for developers. --- Tech stack: Node, Typescript, Postgres. - Full Stack Engineers for our core team: https://medusajs.com/careers/software-engineer/ - Solutions Engineer to support users building with Medusa: https://medusajs.com/careers/solutions-e
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In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
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 18 people looking for key hires who want to work closely with our founding team to build our future cloud platform for companies to host their Medusa project (think Vercel for commerce). We are looking for engineers motivated to tackle complex problems and who care about crafting great products for developers. --- Tech stack: Node, Typescript, Postgres, AWS. - Full Stack Engineers (70/30 backend) with infra experience: https://medusajs.com/careers/software-engineer/ - Solutions Engineer to s
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upport users building with Medusa: https://medusajs.com/careers/solutions-engineer/
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)
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 our founding team to build our future cloud platform for companies to host their Medusa project (think Vercel for commerce). We are looking for engineers motivated to tackle complex problems and who care about crafting great products for developers. --- Tech stack: Node, Typescript, Postgres, AWS. - Full Stack Engineers (70/30 backend) with infra experience: https://medusajs.com/careers/software-engineer/ - Solutions Engineer to s
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upport users building with Medusa: https://medusajs.com/careers/solutions-engineer/
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)
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 our founding team to build our future cloud platform for companies to host their Medusa project (think Vercel for commerce). We are looking for engineers motivated to tackle complex problems and who care about crafting great products for developers. --- Tech stack: Node, Typescript, Postgres, AWS. - Full Stack Engineers (70/30 backend) with infra experience: https://medusajs.com/careers/software-engineer/ - Solutions Engineer to s
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upport users building with Medusa: https://medusajs.com/careers/solutions-engineer/
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
Medusa - 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 --- More info: - https://github.com/medusajs/medusa - https://medusajs.notion.site/Growth-Engineer-b449d44b34cc454...
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2023)
Medusa is a headless API, so you are free to consume it from wherever you want whether it be a React-based storefront, a C# backend, or something third - there's really no limitations. But the source code of the open-source project is written in Node.js, so if you looking to contribute, you are forced to write JS. Re SDKs, there's an official JS SDK and a community-led Flutter SDK - that I know of. The former can be found in the GitHub repository here: https://github.com/medusajs/medusa/tree/master/packages/medu... Disclaimer, I am co-author of the project.
In Best ecommerce UX practices from mcmaster.com

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