Topic: [Introducing] Wherebits - a bitcoin directory for local and online businesses (Read 2147 times)

Nice job with wherebits.com. Nice looking site but still obviously a ways to go. Take a look at http://whotakescoin.com. They have been around awhile and have nearly 7800 listings and have classified listings as well. Would like to see a combo of the two. I do like the widget whotakescoin offers for real time quotes. Also, they already have banner and featured advertising in place.

Update 1.0

• 1200 local businesses added
  
  
• We have enabled Embedding the list of businesses accepting bitcoin. You can filter the embed listings choosing Keywords, country, state and category
  | Visit https://wherebits.com/embed/ |
• We've added a great new feature. Bookmarks! Now you can save your favorite businesses accepting bitcoin, and view them in our dashboard
  | Visit https://wherebits.com |

Introduction
Today I would like to mention a new project I've been working on with a few other people:   introducing Wherebits. (https://wherebits.com)

What is Wherebits?
Wherebits is a bitcoin directory for local and online businesses accepting bitcoin, officially launched on January 30^th 2015 .
We included a vast variety of business categories. We started by adding bitcoin ATMs available around the US, than we decided to expand our selection to restaurants, bars, and so on.

How big is our directory?
As of today we have added 500 1200 stores and businesses accepting bitcoin. Most of them are local businesses based in US only for now. We have decided to focus our attention and adding local businesses ourselves, starting with the US: we will expand to the rest of the world soon.
Our goal is to reach around 1250-1750 2000 businesses by the end of the month. We are adding around 50 daily.

Features of the website
Wherebits lets users search for businesses using a simple Google map and a search box, with keyword, category, and location (currently US states) inputs. It also has a grid with categories and the latest stores added.

Now, how about users adding businesses, stores, or whatever you are running online?
If you do accept bitcoin as a payment on your website or in your store than visit Wherebits @ https://wherebits.com/add-a-bitcoin-store/ - you will be able to add a store.

How adding a business works?
First of all, it's free and will always be. Adding yours is way simple, you just need to insert a title, a location(if local), your email address, a description, and optionally, your phone number, website url, a cover and a company logo.

What makes Wherebits better than any other bitcoin directory?

• it's updated daily
• We are in a constant growth
• it's free to register and to add your own business
• We verify every single businesses added  
• We will be offering Featured listings
• It has a decent design and it's user friendly

Challenges and plans for the coming months
Our main focus is adding as many local and online businesses as we can. As previously said we will first complete the local directory and than work on a section strictly dedicated to Online businesses.
Second thing we are working on is optimising the website. We are looking forward to enhance the speed of the initial homepage load, mostly the google map loading. We also adding images for every listing, choosing the right images related to the business.

If you have any questions or comments than please let us know!
We are also on Twitter @wherebits -> https://twitter.com/wherebits

Cheers!!!

Visit Wherebits at https://wherebits.com