Do you know Medusa.js? What's your experience with it?
reddit / selfhosted

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Ngh7 · 2023-11-26 11:58

Hey everyone,

I recently came across an self-hosted e-commerce solution called
Medusa.js. I searched a bit for people's opinions about it on the
Internet and the results are.... unexpected?

tl;dr: The package had a very fast growth in popularity and yet no one
talks about it, why?

Let's summary:

First of all, Medusa in about 4 years, has reached a 20k stars on
Github, beating almost 3x the competition such as Sylius or
PrestaShop. Heck, it even beat the old-man WordPress by 2k stars.

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Wort to note, that Medusa won as e-commerce product of the year 2022
on ProductHunt, that might explain that boom near 2022, but it still
looks way different than typical growth and it keeps going up for some
reason since then.

Looking at such GitHub popularity, I expected to find a lot of
discussion about it, but it is quite different. It's hard to find
posts on this topic that don't look like they were written by a non-
technical copywriter for SEO. Most discussions look like marketing
fake posts to promote it. There's not much tutorials about it.
Basically this name doesn't appear in posts like "what do you
recommend for an online store".

Am I missing something? Why is it so quiet about it? From where did so
many people hear about it?

Have any of you used this solution in a real project? What is your
experience?

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bityard · 2023-11-26 13:48

GitHub stars are not really a good proxy for popularity.

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Ngh7 · 2023-11-26 15:07

They have got a plenty followers on Twitter/X also.

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No_Dragonfruit_5882 · 2023-11-26 17:15

Nothing that someone cant bot.

Not saying that they did bot it, but its possible.

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Ok-Quantity7501 · 2023-11-26 17:22

>that don't look like they were written by a non-technical copywriter
for SEO. Most discussions look like marketing fake posts to promote
it.

Hm, a lot like something else here..

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Ngh7 · 2023-11-26 17:25

At this point I'm little afraid to use it so that would be not so
great marketing... unless it's reverse psychology O.o


But for real, if I won't find reasoning why is in that state, I don't
trust it and ain't using it.

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adamshand · 2023-11-27 02:51

I haven't used it, but I've listened to a podcast with the creators
and as far as I know it's legit.