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Hey all, developer here looking for a simple tool that I can build to help people here out. So tell me, what could you use to help make your activities here in Services faster or more efficient? Forms I'm familiar with are command line tools, widgets, or web/database apps but I'm looking for ideas. Whatever it is will be released as free open source software. Thanks for reading and thinking about it. -weex

Something that helps people who use the services section ? I can't think of anything but a Freelance website that accepts Bitcoin. Unlike Fiverr , It should be decentralized and anonymous with an escrow and reputation system.
I'm not sure how hard this is going to be to code and design but there is no proper website for this , at least nothing well coded/designed and advertised, most of them are dead.

If would be nice to have a simple script where you can sell a product and people could pay with bitcoin. It should be easy with a webinstaller (DB) and a simple admin to add blockchain/coinbase credentials.

And a form for the buyer to add address, amount etc, I.e. a one product shop but then with bitcoin.

You means tools for help activity on this forum "service section" more active? I think there are have an email notification feature.

If you means it's something software development which can help people to gain their income, I think you should make it different, and more secure but don't make it complicated.

xbtfreelancer is doing the same thing. Freelancing using BTC as payment. Not sure though if this is what OP wants.

Well as far as I can think there should be a proper list authorized by this forum itself so that we can know who is "authorised" and who can not deceive me or anyone and has positive trust .

Decentralized with an escrow and reputation system. I've been working on Rein which is a protocol and some tools to create this kind of thing but a couple of things are needed to get from where it is now to what you're asking for.

1) A UI that makes it easy for someone to create a new account and save their own keys so they can save the keys defining their identity locally.

2) A website that shows jobs well. Right now there is http://rein2-ams.reinproject.org:5000/jobs but no jobs posted at this time and that site doesn't let people post. That has to be done via the command line.

3) Oh yeah, there's another which you allude to with the dead comment. Nobody's using this yet. I put up some jobs but then put in expiration as a feature and all of my jobs have expired. Rather than just repost the same ones I want to create some more jobs but haven't gotten around to it. Believe it or not, I'd like to get 12 or more jobs up before the halving so this thread was a way to generate some ideas toward that end. Ideally if someone has a good idea, they'll write a more complete spec...maybe a full page or two describing what's needed at a minimum.

I think this must exist but then again, if it doesn't, I'm sure it would be helpful. Do you have a single product you're trying to sell? Wouldn't it be better since BTC is irreversible for there to be some kind of mediator to such a sale?

I like xbtfreelancer but I was thinking more of a simple tool. One that can be coded over a weekend rather than a full-fledged service that needs to be built over months and years.

True reputation is a community thing. I don't think centralized lists like what's here are best but it takes time and a decent framework for trust to be bulit and managed. Bitcoin-otc's web of trust is probably the best I've seen in this regard. The database is free to download and cryptographically verified by those that run it. Great suggestion though to look toward reputational tooling.