Topic: [ANN] OpenBazaar - A Decentralized Market Platform - page 3. (Read 20033 times)

The killer application we are waiting for! 

Windows installer came out shortly after I posted that here:

https://blog.openbazaar.org/beta-3-0-tabriz-is-released/

First download and install this dependency:
http://www.gpg4win.org/

No windows installer but I'm going to try this out later ... https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar/wiki/Windows-support

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar

Go get Beta 3 (Tabriz) now!

FYI - Still no Windows installer.
Build Instructions-
https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar/wiki/Build-Instructions

Just setup OpenBazaar Beta 2.0. Looking good!  
Let's get this out there! Received an email from eBay saying they are splitting from PayPal in 2015...
Once OpenBazaar is up and running they could just close eBay, I won't use it anymore! 

BTW I tried to join the OpenBazaar forum and clicked on send confirmation email maybe 100 times but no email ever arrives.
It's been a month now, any chance to be able to participate in the forum? I'd like to join the discussion and give feedback from my test.
Thanks.

It is not a business. It is an open source software.

What is your business plan if you do not charge fees?

Should be in December if all go well.

All good figured it out.  Script works just needs love and attention, once /html/ is the top level of the document root of your virtual host it's fine.

More efforts need to be put into "idiot-proofing" the installer.  Please.  Make it do checks to see if it will fail before even proceeding.  I had no idea what I was getting into when I ran it and now I want to wipe the whole OS and start over.

How about for starters, when you run the script have it ask where the files from the git repo will go, or even say in the script what folder the person should be in before grabbing files and just putting them wherever.  Have the default entry be the current path and let them hit "enter" to choose that they are going to put the files there, or allow them to change it.  Does that make sense?
 
To be careful, I started a temp directory somewhere, and all the files ended up going there.  The script ran about 1800 lines of total chaos without any user input except "are you sure you want this set of 100 packages?" a few times over.  Just do apt-get -y, to force the script to install those packages, why give the user an option that will only cause it to fail if they say no?

Even just an "are you sure you want to install OpenBazaar HERE?" option, with a brief description of what is going to happen.  

I was under the impression that it was okay to run this in a subdirectory of an existing server.  Apparently not, and I only glanced at the code but things went all chaotic pretty fast.

So, I had a "successful install" via the script and, of course, my webserver was not configured to display anything in that random temp folder, so I figured it couldn't hurt to just force-copy all files to a folder where they could be viewed.  I moved them to a folder like "openbazaar", so I could see them at my.web.server.ip/openbazaar/ and I saw that it there is an HTML folder.  Click it, and I see stuff!  But no CSS.  In the HTML, apparently, all the include javascripts, CSS, and so on were hardcoded to /html/css/filenameexample.css

So if in your browser it looks like my.webserver.ip/openbazaar/html/index.html, you have nothing but errors because your files would have to exist at my.webserver.ip/html/css/filenameexample.css in order to work.  If you delete the /html/ part and just use a relative link css/filenameexample.css, it works perfectly.  To some degree.  It looks like the rest of the program really wants to be the top level of the server without any subdirectories so I think I'm going to wipe and start over, just wanted to leave this tidbit here so that if you think (like I did) that you can just run the script from any random folder and expect the configuration to work on the first try.  

Does anyone have any useful step-by-step instructions w/o using the script?  It says "The following instructions are for advanced users, and are not up to date." in the official instructions.  Can someone maybe bring them up to date?

I've been following open bazaar for several months. I shall create my own shop online sometimes, but I wonder when the marketplace will effectively open, and leave the beta stage?

I totally support this thanks a lot!

Too many scam coins out there. Need some standards like a minimum twenty million dollar market cap and at least two years in existence.

If privacy is what you want look at Darkcoin or Xcurrency.

SO anybody set one up yet? Let's check it out

interesting

this has potential to be huge

How much data do you envision being stored in the Ricardian contract?   

For example, many auction listings contain images and even video of the product.

There seems to be a couple issues with storing these in the contract:

1) A video or large image is a lot of data to store in ascii form (base64?) via json encoding.

2) The contract is supposed to be both human and machine readable.  The image/video cannot be read by a human without software interpretation.   Presenting the contract to the user seems to require some care because either you need to truncate/hide the encoded binary data or else display it and look really ugly.   Maybe solve this via a "human" and "raw" view of the contract?


I don't know if these are problems, but just something I wondered about how OpenBazaar handles it.....

yes - im interested to know that also ...

granitecoin ( grn ) is what i trade in normally ... but convert a lot of others to btc ...

crysx

If a merchant and buyer are in the same city, would it be possible to add the option for "Face2Face" trade. If the merchant marks an option to allow F2F they could specify a store location or a contact page for meeting in a public place. This way they can save on shipping if they are in the same location. So instead of filling in shipping information they just coordinate meeting.

This is a nice idea, but if I am selling "normal" bits and pieces, I don't really need a un-censorable market place. I like the arbiter feature, still reading about it now.

A bitcoin marketplace.

Quite interseting to see this project develop.

Also other crypto or just Bitcoin?