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While I'm going to continue offering it as a SaaS, I've decided to also open-source it.\n\nI'm hopeful that by doing so it will:\n 1) Grow it into a Wordpress size juggernaut with a plugin for any business process under the sun.\n 2) Bring me interesting consulting gigs.\n\nThe open-source site is at stockor.org.  There's a demo up at stockor.com\u002Fdemo as well.\n\nLooking forward to hearing HN's thoughts!",{"problem":44,"audience":9,"pricing":51,"motivation":57,"time_to_build":9,"stack":62,"openness":89,"stage":90,"team_size":91},{"value":45,"source":46,"evidence":47},"Managing the entire supply chain from purchasing inventory to customer relations","maker",[48],{"id":49,"by":10,"text":50},"7277691","Great point. The main difference is that Shopify is great at e-commerce but it stops there. 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