Why I chose MedusaJS over building ecommerce from scratch

There's a specific kind of pain that only developers who've built e-commerce from scratch truly understand. You start the project feeling confident, maybe even a little cocky. Then, slowly, the features start stacking up, and you realize that what you thought was "almost done" was really just the beginning. That was me, not too long ago. We Thought We Were Almost Done. We Were Just Getting Started. The first time I worked with a team to build an e-commerce platform from scratch, we genuinely believed we were ahead of schedule after getting the product catalog sorted. We were patting ourselves on the back, thinking the hard part was over. Then reality kicked in. We still had order management to figure out. Then shipping logic. Then inventory. Each feature we added felt like pulling a thread on a sweater; one thing would change, and something else would unravel somewhere else in the system. It was a lot. But the thing that really kept me up at night wasn't the features themselves. It was