An Online openbazaar

[Rando]

I'm willing to donate $50 in btc to someone who can set up a website that runs the openbazzar program letting people browse the openbazaar market without the need of downloading and installing the progrom.
Anyone?

[Sharma]

I'm willing to donate $50 in btc to someone who can set up a website that runs the openbazzar program letting people browse the openbazaar market without the need of downloading and installing the progrom.
Anyone?

Seems rather hard to do... Openbazaar is a piece of p2p software you run on your local machine.
In order to do this, you'd have to run a server where you run the openbazaar software and then use an api (don't even know if this is implemented, if it isn't implement you'd have to edit the sourcecode to add API functionality) to connect your webserver to the running openbazaar program.

In this case, every user of your website would be using the same account to buy/sell stuff...

IF openbazaar has an API (which i doubt), this would be possible, but it would cost a hell of a lot more than $50 i'm afraid...
You would have to create your own payment gateway, user management, interface,... actually completely reinvent openbazaar, only pull the items off openbazaar and place the payments trough the API...

Basically, you'd have to make a complete online store, but you'd have to pull your inventory from the openbazaar api, your users should send coins to your hot wallet, afterwards buy an item (your api should send a buy request to the p2p program) and substract the amount of coins from their account on your site.

Expect a couple hundred hours development if an API is already present, a lot more if an API has to be included in the P2P program. I personally charge around $35/hour... So it would cost a lot.

[Rando]

Thank you for respoding Sharma.
I don't expect people to be able to actually trade on the site - just to get a first impression. If someone sees something that he/she likes they will have to download the p2p prog. The site can run the program and a demo account that has zero balance...

[Sharma]

Thank you for respoding Sharma.
I don't expect people to be able to actually trade on the site - just to get a first impression. If someone sees something that he/she likes they will have to download the p2p prog. The site can run the program and a demo account that has zero balance...

That's more doable.
In the meantime, i've found this page: https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar-Server/tree/master/api
It seems openbazaar has an api, which is nice... The problem is that i cannot seem to find any documentation about it.

In this case, you'd need to run openbazaar on your server with a "demo" account (like you anticipated-... Use the API to pull all the items from the running daemon, and create a page to display these items.

Since there is an api, it should be doable, but i'm afraid it would still take a lot more than 50 bucks to do this... sorry

[Rando]

Since there is an api, it should be doable, but i'm afraid it would still take a lot more than 50 bucks to do this... sorry

Lets say we want to run this site for 1 year, taking into account updating to the latest version etc.
How much more would it take?
I'm willing to raise it to $100 - if you think it's going to be more than that, maybe someone else would like to donate for this cause.
I really think openbazzar can make a diffrence, but I don't see my Grandmother download and install a program just to see what's in there.

[Sharma]

Since there is an api, it should be doable, but i'm afraid it would still take a lot more than 50 bucks to do this... sorry

Lets say we want to run this site for 1 year, taking into account updating to the latest version etc.
How much more would it take?
I'm willing to raise it to $100 - if you think it's going to be more than that, maybe someone else would like to donate for this cause.
I really think openbazzar can make a diffrence, but I don't see my Grandmother download and install a program just to see what's in there.

Completely true, and you have a great point...
If you can find the API documentation, i'd be willing to make a basic cost estimation.
OR maybe you can do this the other way around: try to create an open source crew, open up a github repo, and start an open source project to generate such a website.

If there are enough developers that are interested in donating a couple hours of their time in order to create this, maybe it can be created for free (albeit, open source, so you cannot sell the script afterwards)

[pedrog]

Isn't that what http://bazaarbay.org/ does?

[shorena]

This sounds like a rather large project and I doubt 100 USD in BTC is gonna get you close to your goal. With ~100USD you get a cheap VPS for a year, but it will not attract developers unless they would do it for free as well. Its probably better to look closer into what exactly needs to be done in order to understand the costs better. Once that is done you can easily get in contact with an escrow and collect funds.

[Rando]

Isn't that what http://bazaarbay.org/ does?

Thank you pedrog.
This is definitely good enough.
I'll see if they take donations...
Thank you all for responding.

[Sharma]

Isn't that what http://bazaarbay.org/ does?

Looks like you are correct
OP: maybe you can contact these guys directly, and see if they're willing to licence their script to you?

[shorena]

Isn't that what http://bazaarbay.org/ does?

Looks like you are correct
OP: maybe you can contact these guys directly, and see if they're willing to licence their script to you?

Looks like there is a lot missing though. I see only a couple offers.

[ed_teech]

OB themselves suggest a VPS for hosted stores. Maybe thats because a full client needs to be running.

[Kakmakr]

Could this be done, if you configure this on Azure or one of the cloud services or will they close your account once they pick up that you are using their services to access other services? I was also thinking if there will be a mobile version of this in future for smart phones?

It will grow much faster, if you could access the market from your phone and use your wallet apps to pay and receive payment for your goods. ^smile^

[KenR]

What's the harm in running OpenBaazar as a stand alone application ? Don't see any points in such posts.Also $50 man ? You're going to shell out a couple of $500's to even make something similar.The code is easily available but running it on your own channel is quite messed up.Better go by the default choices.