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| | Apply HN: Obaas – OpenBazaar as a Service | |
6 points by Vertrauen on April 10, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments
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| OpenBazaar is a brand new, decentralized marketplace. It cuts the middle man and puts all control in the hands of the users. But it comes at a big cost: Users need to install and run software to take part in it. Vendors even have to run the application 24/7. And they have to set up their store and all of their products. Obaas takes away all of that pain. All functionality of OpenBazzar is available via a web interface. Obaas automatically imports your products from Shopify, Magento, Ebay or Amazon and sets up your OpenBazaar store. If you already sell products on one of these marketplaces, you will be able to sell on OpenBazaar in 5 minutes via Obaas. |
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But the whole idea of OpenBazaar is that it's decentralized. I guess you'll be the "center" in this case. If OpenBazaar becomes big enough, I think this will work (and face competition from hundreds of clones) but if it stays the niche it is today, I'd assume this won't work because currently the only people who use it are people who care about the "decentralized" part. The reason for that is everything else at OpenBazaar currently sucks. (Early stage problems)
I could be wildly wrong though, I'm not an expert in this domain.