r/medusajs

Hey,

I’m wondering if it’s realistic to start offering e-commerce development based on MedusaJS as a solo dev or a 2-person team.

From what I understand, finding regular B2C clients who want a fully custom store built from scratch is pretty difficult. Most small businesses would probably choose Shopify or WooCommerce instead.

Is the overhead of Medusa — development, hosting, deployment, integrations, maintenance, etc. — too much for a very small team? Or is it mostly a matter of building a good workflow, reusable starters, and processes?

Could Medusa become a solid alternative to Shopify for client work, or does it mainly make sense for larger/custom B2B projects?
Would love to hear from people who have worked with both Medusa and Shopify.

Hi all, I have a Mercurjs project and I want to simplify the vendor panel with custom product blocks and make it easy for the non-technical users. I want to prefill some fields with a default list of values, to make it convenient for the users. Anyway, I find it very tough to edit the panels as I need to follow the docs properly and I feel less confident as I do more coding.

I want to get an honest suggestion and feedback if someone actually simplified the seller panel. I went through reddit and saw posts claiming people over engineer with the CMS to make a custom panel, not sure if it was worth it.

1. I want to have a one page layout to add the product.

2. Add customized widgets like upsells, related and more.

3. Seller panel to have only sales, orders, payouts and promotions. Remove the rest from the routes.

The mercurjs is good but if I implement the above, not sure if it will break. The thing is the overall seller panel looks too techy(I am saying this because I tested with 10 people and got their feedback)