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Main => General Discussion => Topic started by: roadscape on February 03, 2015, 03:58:48 pm

Title: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: roadscape on February 03, 2015, 03:58:48 pm
Having the first mover advantage gives a competitive edge in this space, but we believe
that the idea of individual gains at this moment is myopic in light of the benefits for the
entire community by open-sourcing as soon as possible.


cryptofresh is written in Rails and the entirety of its code can be found here:
https://github.com/roadscape/cryptofresh

I look forward to improving the store and eventually would like to see it refactored into a
gem to fully facilitate code reuse. As it stands, this code is a useful guide and/or starting
point for anyone looking to build a shop of their own, or as a learning resource.


The plan was to earn back our investment and polish the code before releasing it.
But the clock is ticking, and there's no time to wait.
We’re taking yet another leap of faith.

Support our effort by voting provisional.bitscape (http://bitsharesblocks.com/delegates/delegate?name=provisional.bitscape)!
Title: Re: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: cass on February 03, 2015, 04:36:21 pm
Awesome!  +5%


& great work
Title: Re: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: xeroc on February 03, 2015, 05:35:09 pm
wow .. +5%
Title: Re: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: Gentso1 on February 03, 2015, 05:57:28 pm
Nice move guys
Title: Re: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: donkeypong on February 03, 2015, 05:59:59 pm
That's a good thing to do. Thanks.
Title: Re: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: ticklebiscuit on February 03, 2015, 10:13:41 pm
Now THATS fresh!
Title: Re: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: Fox on February 03, 2015, 10:40:08 pm
Model example of a 100% delegate providing more to the community.
Title: Re: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: bitmarket on February 04, 2015, 06:06:24 am
Great work.
Title: Re: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: svk on February 04, 2015, 07:29:56 am
Good stuff +5%
Title: Re: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: fuzzy on February 04, 2015, 07:44:53 am
 +5%
Title: Re: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: clayop on February 11, 2015, 05:49:09 am
I think this is a big move  +5%
BTW, do you have a plan about expanding your mall to ebay- or amazon-like platform?
It should have escrow service between seller and customer.
Title: Re: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: VoR0220 on February 11, 2015, 08:59:25 am
Love it. Now if only we could get somebody on board to trade BitUSD for USD....That would be something.
Title: Re: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: kaibakker on February 11, 2015, 09:57:58 am
Testing it out, but I am stuck at setting up the RPC connection, first via the GUI but I read that it would be better to use the console version.
Where can I download the console version and which config.json do I have to edit where everyone is talking about?
Thanks in advance
Kai
Title: Re: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: roadscape on February 11, 2015, 04:43:19 pm
Thanks for the support everyone!

I think this is a big move  +5%
BTW, do you have a plan about expanding your mall to ebay- or amazon-like platform?
It should have escrow service between seller and customer.

We were just talking about this.. a P2P marketplace could provide easy on/off-ramps for all users. Someone could get into BitUSD without going through Bitcoin simply by selling something. I really hope to see something like this on the blockchain. Ideally, cryptofresh products would be listed on a decentralized escrow-enabled blockchain marketplace. :)

Testing it out, but I am stuck at setting up the RPC connection, first via the GUI but I read that it would be better to use the console version.
Where can I download the console version and which config.json do I have to edit where everyone is talking about?
Thanks in advance
Kai

There might be a downloadable console version, anyone know?

Otherwise, here is how you build the CLI (console) version:
1. Clone https://github.com/BitShares/bitshares
2. Assuming you're on OSX, follow these instructions:
    https://github.com/BitShares/bitshares/blob/master/BUILD_OSX.md
    Perform steps 1,2,3,4,7,8 (i.e. skip all the optional steps)
Title: Re: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: clayop on February 11, 2015, 08:36:01 pm
Great to hear your plan. Cryptofresh can be the ebay-like market provider and there are many sellers coordinating with you.
In my case, if I register as a seller at Cryptofresh, upload my book, and get paid with escrow service through say, escrow.cryptofresh. Since Amazon or Ebay take over 10% of fees, sellers can be attracted by lower fees of cryptoworld.
Title: Re: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: VoR0220 on February 11, 2015, 08:40:57 pm
Great to hear your plan. Cryptofresh can be the ebay-like market provider and there are many sellers coordinating with you.
In my case, if I register as a seller at Cryptofresh, upload my book, and get paid with escrow service through say, escrow.cryptofresh. Since Amazon or Ebay take over 10% of fees, sellers can be attracted by lower fees of cryptoworld.

Excellent marketing point. Should definitely be utilized.
Title: Re: [ANN] Cryptofresh is now open-source!
Post by: clayop on February 11, 2015, 11:08:02 pm
Great to hear your plan. Cryptofresh can be the ebay-like market provider and there are many sellers coordinating with you.
In my case, if I register as a seller at Cryptofresh, upload my book, and get paid with escrow service through say, escrow.cryptofresh. Since Amazon or Ebay take over 10% of fees, sellers can be attracted by lower fees of cryptoworld.

Excellent marketing point. Should definitely be utilized.

Some idea modification... Escrow is not that attractive to sellers. So if sellers have high reputation and/or are identified, they don't have to use escrow. Ebay fee varies by categories but on average 10% and paypal fee is 3%.
The marketplace should have efficient SEO and marketing team should put their effort on advertising this shopping mall (if we have). Initially, it may need a large investment, but once it goes viral it would be the strong engine for Bitshares and BitAssets.