Hey guys,
I'm currently working on a website which will go online in the next weeks. Cannot pick an exact date, as I'm also a web developer by profession (and passion) and I'm doing this in my spare time.
The website is a TYPO3v6 project and its target is to make people all over the world aware of where they can pay with cryptocurrencies (in online- as well as "brick-and-mortar-stores", you know, those offline ones one can actually touch, hehe).
As I'm totally into Ultracoin, I'd love to support it by listing it on the page, as one of the first coins to be represented there. Here's an overview of the functionality:
- search for country, city, zip, address to find shops and services which accept cryptocurrencies
- a nice map which shows the search results (I'm using OpenStreetMap, combined with Leaflet.js)
- users will be able to submit new shops and services (either directly by using a login on this website - then, the entry will be available directly - or as unregistered user where I'll have to add the shop/service manually)
- a voting system for shops and services whom users wish to accept cryptocurrencies (will be sort of the main USP of my project, as it brings huge opportunities: we can make vendors aware of how big the interest in them adding e.g. Ultracoin support to their website actually is)
- ...and some other nice features
Actually, I'm pretty far with the website; the search feature and the maps work like a charm. I'm programming an MVC-based Extbase-/Fluid-Extension which handles all this stuff. Extbase and Fluid are Frameworks (Extbase for functionality, Fluid as templating engine) which belong to the TYPO3 CMS.
Thought that this would be a good idea, because I never really found an extensive, community-based project which tells me where i can spend my ultracoins, bitcoins, litecoins and what not else.
So that's just a little announcement. If some of you like to give some feedback about this idea in general (meaning, do you think it's actually useful or a waste of time), it would be very appreciated.
