Oddbean new post about login | logout We need an index of the sellers and their items. There are some native stores popping up. But I think that in the meantime, we need some crawlers, and api integrations to get more content/item volume there. Then we can rebuild Amazon in a decentralized way; any seller just taps into the same protocol; shippers do the same; frontend discovery clients then would be the easy piece.
Awesome! I'd try out a decentralized Amazon! My brother is a career logistics guy that might be able to help strategize the logistical end. More specifically, our idea is a job board marketplace. I'm a career construction guy trying to help with the labor problem with my dev buddy. We've got traditional Saas architecture and most of our backend complete, to be hosted on a cloud. Interested in keeping an eye on this space so we're ready for when normies catch on! Construction contractors will probably be among the last unfortunately. Although we do have a lot in common with developers in that we all love to build shit! I'd like to keep in touch with Nostr/Bitcoin devs who could join our team when the time is right.
Nice! I got some experience with search aggregators, and that's why it popped up to me. - We don't have to sit and wait until everyone decides to spin up the shop / career page / or any offers page on nostr. - We can just crawl their webs, select what we want, re-index, and then list in a nice compact shopping app (shopping browser) - Each link will still chaotically direct you to whatever independent purchase funnel - But it will pull the center of user traffic gravity around the Discovery process to the nostr I'm thinking about testing it out on some niche (not having ambition myself to launch new Amazon right away :-) ) I think that if the indexes are well structured, then it should be accessible by various logistic agents to just tap into the system and keep an eye what needs to be delivered in their area and they can bid on the delivery contracts. - sort of a physical DVM if you will