There is nothing similar developed so far (mobile, peer-to-peer marketplace), so this is unique offering and mostly due to technical complexities and the level of effort required. So the unique offering is not a token, but app itself.
Ummmm, OpenBazaar (
https://www.openbazaar.org/) is exactly this and it already exists. Did you not research your competition? True, they don't have a token or coin, but users use crypto.
What's the plan to acquire users?
Sure, you're a peer to peer network for selling stuff, but really you are a marketing company because to thrive you need users, and to get users you need marketing.
Thank you, good question. We put a special portion in whitepaper for this. I met Brian Hoffman not just once, considered partnering, but we have different priorities and goals. OB1 network is BSD licensed and open source, so we will bootstrap on it, getting 30k listings day 1. Here is the summary copy/pasted from whitepaper:
- We are mobile (App), OB is PC, mobile is not even on roadmap now. There was BazaarHound project but it failed, because it used single SERVER on backend running OB scripts
- We use whole ecosystem to support your store. You can turn off your phone, but your items would still be for sale. OB slowly getting in this direction as well in version 2
- We are integrating crypto-wallet, you dont need to know what is crypto to start using it
- We have integrated search. OB uses separate centralized crawler, defeating the decentralized purpose of app.
- We include auctions and personal ads (Craigslist-like)
- And lastly, we include Risk scoring of transactions and several additional loss mitigation ways using tokens
There are much more differences, but I think Brian has his hands tied up right now due to conventional investments he took early in OB development and concentrating on search service... I am still considering partnering with him in future, he is awesome guy
