OpenBazaar Opened , your first impressions ?

[--Encrypted--]

The interface doesn't look nice. It's too dark, and the first available products aren't much exciting either, it' doesn't look professional. Then a major turn-off is that to use it you have to download a big file. I'd be happy to sell stuff via OpenBazaar though. I just wish it would look more like Amazon.

it's just 70MB...

[BruceLee007]

my first impressions are pretty great to be honest, i really like the whole thing how it looks and i believe that it will be a good trading platform

in my opinion i will use it in the future when i will have a little bit more bitcoins than i do right now i hope this will not take a lot of time for me to make some profit

[broseph]

Couldn't get it to work, guess I'll wait for another less buggy release.

[iv4n]

Couldn't get it to work, guess I'll wait for another less buggy release.

Doesn't work for me too also. I couldn't connect after half an hour of trying.
I was excited to try it, but what to do. We will need to wait some update or new release.
I hope everything will be ok soon.

[doof]

I like it.  Its not an eBay competitor, its different.  I like opening up the app and discovering new merchants and items.

[AGD]

Couldn't get it to work, guess I'll wait for another less buggy release.

Doesn't work for me too also. I couldn't connect after half an hour of trying.
I was excited to try it, but what to do. We will need to wait some update or new release.
I hope everything will be ok soon.

Running perfect with me: ob://b7ebfbe0663ae93eff2d3e803463894674743408/store

[countryfree]

The interface doesn't look nice. It's too dark, and the first available products aren't much exciting either, it' doesn't look professional. Then a major turn-off is that to use it you have to download a big file. I'd be happy to sell stuff via OpenBazaar though. I just wish it would look more like Amazon.

it's just 70MB...

81.8 MB so it's quite substantial. It's larger than Mozilla Firefox and Multibit put together, and you can't ignore that you don't need to download anything to use Ebay or Amazon. I guess there should 2 versions of the software. A very light one, then a big one to those who have something to sell.

[RussianRaibow]

I'm a little disappointed.  I signed up for the email list that was supposed to inform merchants about the launch so that they could be ready with a store already setup for the launch.  I never got the email, but I began seeing many posts about how OB had already launched!  I still have not tried it out yet, but I am really looking forward to it.  I just wish I could have been ready in time.

[qiwoman2]

It looks quite interesting to me and it can help traders and producers of various goods and services to open their trading to a market of people they never thought they could market to before who also have a lot of Bitcoin to spend on products and services. Personally this could only be a good thing and I will certainly pass it around to a few people I know who produce things.

[Bitcoinpro]

this is like the next greatest invetion after Crypto

and its complementary

[defined]

81.8 MB so it's quite substantial. It's larger than Mozilla Firefox and Multibit put together, and you can't ignore that you don't need to download anything to use Ebay or Amazon. I guess there should 2 versions of the software. A very light one, then a big one to those who have something to sell.

Are you using a PC or a phone? My Firefox browser cache alone is much bigger than 80 MB.
I am getting curious after all the feedback, so I will try it on an old laptop

I am intrigued how this works on P2P. https://blog.openbazaar.org/what-is-openbazaar/ :

When you publish that listing, it is sent out to the distributed p2p network of other people using OpenBazaar. Anyone who searches for the keywords you’ve used—laptop, electronics, etc—will find your listing.

How will this work with millions of advertisements? How does the network search for the keyword? Does every user download the entire list of articles for sale?

[bargainbin]

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I am intrigued how this works on P2P. https://blog.openbazaar.org/what-is-openbazaar/ :

When you publish that listing, it is sent out to the distributed p2p network of other people using OpenBazaar. Anyone who searches for the keywords you’ve used—laptop, electronics, etc—will find your listing.

How will this work with millions of advertisements? How does the network search for the keyword? Does every user download the entire list of articles for sale?

Not too well, apparently



Here's a browser search front end for OB https://bazaarbay.org (not really up for installing an unknown app).

[OmegaStarScream]

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I am intrigued how this works on P2P. https://blog.openbazaar.org/what-is-openbazaar/ :

When you publish that listing, it is sent out to the distributed p2p network of other people using OpenBazaar. Anyone who searches for the keywords you’ve used—laptop, electronics, etc—will find your listing.

How will this work with millions of advertisements? How does the network search for the keyword? Does every user download the entire list of articles for sale?

Not too well, apparently



Here's a browser search front end for OB https://bazaarbay.org (not really up for installing an unknown app).

And that's why It's "Open source" so you are ready to install an unknown app .

[LFC_Bitcoin]

this is like the next greatest invetion after Crypto

and its complementary

It looks great but I'm going to sit & wait until it gets a bigger userbase & more trust before I dip my toes in.

[bargainbin]

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I am intrigued how this works on P2P. https://blog.openbazaar.org/what-is-openbazaar/ :

When you publish that listing, it is sent out to the distributed p2p network of other people using OpenBazaar. Anyone who searches for the keywords you’ve used—laptop, electronics, etc—will find your listing.

How will this work with millions of advertisements? How does the network search for the keyword? Does every user download the entire list of articles for sale?

Not too well, apparently



Here's a browser search front end for OB https://bazaarbay.org (not really up for installing an unknown app).

And that's why It's "Open source" so you are ready to install an unknown app .

Why in the world would I want to spend days auditing code/eliminating possible attack vectors, just to install something of dubious value? What fresh craziness is this?
Did *you* audit the code before installing?

[merelcoin]

it doesn't want to start the default server on my local machine, and it doesn't want to connect to the server i installed on my VPS. probably my company's network service.
I'll try on my home computer this evening, but so far, it doesn't look good in the usability section

[pereira4]

I checked it out briefly the other day, and there wasn't much stuff to buy yet. It will take a couple of months until we see a decent amount of stuff being sold. As soon as people see the benefits of using this over other methods it will just keep growing itself due snowball effect. I m going to wait a while before using it myself.

[RodeoX]

I hope this keeps developing. I found the search feature to be very poor. And some of the prices were absurd. Look at the example below.

https://bazaarbay.org/151da9f848720b160a005957f7b5294964290ae2/listing/f91fe2e3c72c298b383c0ae0b9a7328fb1dbdfee

They are asking $330 for 100 rounds of .556 TulAmmo. That is $3.30 per round for shitty steel case ammo. Please.

[longbob72]

I hope this keeps developing. I found the search feature to be very poor. And some of the prices were absurd. Look at the example below.

https://bazaarbay.org/151da9f848720b160a005957f7b5294964290ae2/listing/f91fe2e3c72c298b383c0ae0b9a7328fb1dbdfee

They are asking $330 for 100 rounds of .556 TulAmmo. That is $3.30 per round for shitty steel case ammo. Please.

for the search you can use bazaarbay.org. it's much more better than trying to search with tags.
and I agree that some of the prices are absurd (not really talking about the ammo specifically because I have no experience with that) but it's still on early stage so there may be some improvements soon.

[idev]

Have not used it yet but it looks awesome. Can't wait to give it a try out soon.