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15,000 GH stars in a year: how we did it 🤩

Nicklas Gellner on November 24, 2022

It has only been a bit more than a year since we decided to raise funding in the quest of building the best OS composable commerce platform for dev...
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Vanshaj Poonia •

Thank you so much Nicklas for explaining everything in such a depth. It seems to be quite helpful for the founders and community managers.

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Nicklas Gellner Medusa •

Thanks @vanshajpoonia - very much appreciate the feedback!

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Nicklas Gellner Medusa •

Sorry for the length of the article, could not help but go into at least a bit of depth 😅

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Krishna Agarwal •

Congratulations Nicklas and Medusa Team 🎉
Medusa is awesome and very useful 💜

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Nicklas Gellner Medusa •

Thanks for the kind words - highly appreciated! 🙏

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Krishna Agarwal •

Thanks, to you too! 🙏🏻

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Necati Özmen •

Congrats! Thanks for the sharing your experience

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Nicklas Gellner Medusa •

Thanks Necati, and likewise great to follow you and the Refine team! 🚀

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ferceg •

Starred! :)

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Nicklas Gellner Medusa •

Thanks! 💜

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Nevo David •

Amazing Product!
Great Team!
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Nicklas Gellner Medusa • • Edited

What are some other OS projects that do well in creating community engagement? 💜

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Yuki Kimoto •

Thanks.

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Sajid Khan • • Edited

Agree, we want to move more of the chats to GH Discussions in the future

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oto •

Medusa Need a forum, because Discord is too difficult to use, and it is not easy to search

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Nicklas Gellner Medusa •

Agree, we want to move more of the chats to GH Discussions in the future 😊

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oto •

GH = github?

I think they need a forum program like flarum or discourse

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Jonathan Reimer •

Discussions are basically the forum function of GitHub

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Alicia Sykes •

To often there's a focus on star count - it's a useful metric for gauging number of users familiar with a project, but it's far from the only one, and the number of stars a project has is in no way a measure of how good it is.

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Nicklas Gellner Medusa • • Edited

You are absolutely right. The best thing about star count is it allows you to understand a bit about the familiarity for devs with the project. The worst thing is, it does not tell you anything about the quality of the project 😂

But hey, if you are up for it, then I'm happy to make a bet: If you take a 30 min spin at Medusa and does not feel the dev-exp. is top notch then I'd be the first one to sponsor any Magneto Hoodie of your choice. Otherwise, I'll need to send you a Medusa one. Up for a challenge?