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A comment on Ask HN: Why open source free E-commerce ecosystem sucks?.

Re:Ask HN: Why open source free E-commerce ecosystem sucks? by byoung2 on Friday July 03, 2020 @11:25PM (#23729830)
Those features cost money to develop, so charging a fee helps fund development. In theory if you are selling, you have revenue to pay for those subscription-based services. The best part about open source is that you can build it yourself if existing offerings are lacking.
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Re:Ask HN: Why open source free E-commerce ecosystem sucks? by econcon on Friday July 03, 2020 @11:39PM (#23729908)
For starting forums for example Discourse is great with plenty of free plugins.

But nothing like that exists in E-commerce atleast I've not used anything which atleast solved some basic e-commerce problems with free plugins.

Yet there are tons of e-commerce websites.

It seems many of them are using plugins by some private agencies which sell maintenance service.

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