Plebmarkt is the working title for the front page of paywithbitcoin.com offering a permissioned P2P marketplace. This fulfills a key project objective: to catalyse stronger more resilient local communities and decentralise essential supply chains.
Imagine a mobile app that feels a little bit like instagram, but with thumbnail images of items for sale locally. Price and distance is overlayed on each thumbnail.
- Products are ordered from top-left to bottom right based on geographic proximity to the user, based on:
- GPS location (if permissioned by user)
- or IP reverse Geolocation (as a falllback).
- As the user scrolls down the grid of thumbnails, they see items further and further away from their location.
- Options to change sort order, and filter by product category.
- Buyers/Sellers identified by Pubky Ed25519 key (volatile name/nym/avatar)
- Users able to log-in to persistent session with:
- Sellers and buyers able to send a signed ‘Thanks for the trade’ token to each other.
User Story:
As a minimum wage mountain worker in Whistler, I want to see all of the organic locally produced food items being sold by my neighbors, available for delivery before lunchtime.
Design possibility ( foraged.com category page)
(foraged.com product page)
Design possibility (Offerup.com mobile)
And here’s a photo of the mock-up I made many years ago before I knew anything about bitcoin tech (it’s almost survived my travel backpack)….
^ again, items sorted by distance.
| Tactical | Single location (i.e. Whister) MedusaJS or WooCommerce hosted on a subdomain Add some sellers from Whistler’s sunday farmers market, and some farms from Pemberton We provide free local delivery with our dope-looking RAMcharger hybrid truck |
| Strategic | Many locations, including town and cities in multiple countries. P2P marketplace on Holepunch-Pear, with Pubky as a profile layer. Semantic social networking. Delivery augmented by a P2P delivery marketplace DAO |