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It looks really nice, and I love the idea of a headless ecommerce platform, especially one that comes with a…",{"id":60,"by":61,"text":62},"28485908","ukyrgf","I'm sure it could become hard to maintain, but it is built as an ecommerce platform. Plugins like Woocommerce are just one of innumerable amounts of plugins that WordPress has to…",{"value":64,"source":53,"evidence":65},"Developers and businesses building online stores",[66,67],{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"28485282","codegeek","Looks nice but to be a Shopify alternative, headless is not the way. Does it come with batteries included so I can plug and play after a quick installation ? Headless makes me…",{"value":72,"source":73,"evidence":74},"Open source (MIT licensed); pricing for larger companies unclear","maker",[75,78,82],{"id":76,"by":11,"text":77},"28483832","Many thanks for the kind words Reubend! And the feedback for internationalization is on point; it is in our roadmap to add a localization element to the core. Though, not in the…",{"id":79,"by":80,"text":81},"28488246","gitgud","Is there any plan to charge for premium features or something? The landing page looks like it's trying to sell me a product, but the Github says it's MIT licensed...",{"id":83,"by":84,"text":85},"28488332","rsstack","Clicking on the logo at the top of the page (mobile) leads to a 404. The product looks great! The homepage doesn't explain pricing or what is a \"large enough company\" to require…",[87,95,99,103],{"value":88,"source":89,"evidence":90},"Node.js","commenter",[91],{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"28485985","s_severus","I'm the maintainer of Vendure, so I might be able to offer a bit of insight on your second question, after having studied the Medusa repo a little. 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