[adavid17]

So this is really a open-source Shopify replacement, right? An OMS that lets you sell on multiple channels (website, Amazon, Instagram, Etsy…) and manage/fulfill those orders in one location?

I was confused at first by your title (open source Amazon) which seemed like it was going to be a e-commerce marketplace like Amazon.com - but it seems like that’s the 2nd step.

Why does a new e-commerce marketplace also require a new open-source OMS? OMS’s have a lot of seller lock-in, but it seems like way less lift to have OpenSourceAmazon.com be a channel sellers using Shopify’s OMS can sell on with a few simple steps on Shopify.

[judge2020]

For reference, Shopify already has https://shop.app/ which does some browsing and recommendations based on your product purchase history, so while it's still "you must use shopify as your storefront", I don't see it as much different from this guy's product.

Perhaps the selling point is "nobody can deplatform you", but chances are not many places have that problem (shopify is against doing it for political content[0]), and if that's the case, all this does for you is force you to hire a team to handle scaling the systems once you need to support tens of thousands of concurrent users.

0: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/shopify-f...