SteemSwap - Like Craigslist for STEEM
I am working on a website that will act as a marketplace/ directory for STEEM and SBD.
If you have a service you would like to offer or something you would like to sell in exchange for STEEM/SBD you can post an ad
If you have STEEM/SBD and would like to spend it without having to convert it to another currency you can search for things for sale, pay for services and post wanted ads if you are looking for something specific.
Ultimately, I would like for it to act as a craigslist style classified ad, business directory site. I should have it ready for people to start posting in the next couple of days.
Great! Suggestion: use steempayments and maybe consider hosting the ads on the blockchain? Eg publish all ads via the user "steemswap" and serve them from that place. Also "validate" users via memo and this way you can link tomstewmit for others to "verify" the seller (and buyers for that matter)
It looks like the steemit will gonna be really big and important thing in the future.
Dude you're going to be rich!!!!!!!
Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was totally going to do this same thing. Glad you beat me to it. Saves me some work lol.
I had the same idea, but I'm not a coder and didn't know where to begin. Good luck with this highlite.
great idea... can only help the value of steemit!
I've been meaning to make a video expressing how direly needed something like this is. Establishing an economy in STEEM (that is, people buying and selling otherwise valuable goods and services with STEEM as the currency) is one of the biggest steps we can take to keep Steem alive long-term. Also, as my "Why Money is Valuable" video alludes to, it could also be a surprisingly powerful driver for positive societal change as well.
Thank you, @highlite, for taking on this project.
First of all, amazing idea.
If you are taking suggestions, may I add:
I am definitely thinking about the escrow thing in the future, I also considered featuring BTC but for the moment my main focus is on STEEM and helping to build the economy.
Imagine people converting BTC to STEEM to purchase instead of the other way around.
I think thats the right approach. As long as they can input btc from your site, then you dont necessarily have to "take" btc for the transactions AND you are still bring folks into the Steemit process
It sounds pretty cool. Will you be doing any marketing other than posting about it online etc.? I think the biggest issue will be to get a 'flow' going with the amount of offers/customers. I also think the odds of similar services existing out there is quite large. Best of luck to you anyways! :)
Once it's up and running, the first step is to get the current community using STEEM as a method of payment instead of converting it to another form of currency. I am not really thinking about how to monetize at this point, just hoping to strengthen the currency.
@highlite Great, but I'm afraid some people might use it to post fake listing and con people into paying steem for nothing. I hope you'll think about that too.
The reputation system should take that into account. You have to be careful with people who have a low reputation, but you could sell more expensive items to those with a high reputation and have a dispute center that would show how many times a user didn't receive the goods they wished to.
A buyer must give the money and then the seller send it. They should be required to have a tracking number on the item sent if it is above a certain dollar amount. The seller then becomes the one who needs to be trusted and not the buyer as they have already given the money.
Since it is visible on the blockchain, if a seller has 3 unresolved flags on their account, maybe their account should be frozen until they resolve any differences with the buyer.
Well, that sounds quite well planned. I hope everything works out well.