Opportunity ledger / Dossier O-4024
Recurring need documented in 2 independent public source items.
First seen 2026-08-25 · Last updated 2026-10-09 · Recalculated daily
These observations describe collected samples, not platform-wide prevalence; they cannot establish whether a problem is widespread or accelerating. Collection scope changed on 09-16 and 09-27; monthly counts must not be read as trends.
Post title: [Feature]: Support weight-based shipping prices via weight_total totals and conditional price rules
## Problem Merchants who ship physical goods almost always pay carriers by weight, but Medusa gives them no way to *price* by weight. A merchant selling board games, books, or apparel typically has ca… Source excerpt
Post title: Complicated Shipping Variables
Stores owners with a broad array of LTL Freight an…
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No first-hand payment statement is on record here, so this page carries no pricing suggestion. A price with no payment evidence behind it is a guess wearing a number.
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Evidence confidence = strength × evidence volume × source diversity × payment × competition × trend × 10. Counts use independent content items; only first-hand pain, current spend, explicit willingness to pay and concrete feature requests affect the score. Repeated posts by one author are discounted. Scoring and status changes follow deterministic rules.
“Payment-backed” means first-hand payment evidence exists in the record. It does not mean the business is worth building. “Fading” is a recency tag shown alongside any evidence level, not a lower level. Read the full methodology.