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Any SaaS product that uses a rent seeking marketplace to compensate for missing essential product features. Think Atlassian, Shopify, QuickBooks etc.

I was very happy to discover Medusa (https://www.medusajs.com) on HN recently, a pretty solid Shopify alternative.

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Atlassian's problem isn't a lack of essential features, it's the flood of completely non-essential features that make it impossible to configure correctly without years of experience. It's essentially the opposite of the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well, each Atlassian app tries to do 150,000 things and does 149,998 of them extremely poorly.

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