This approach will set you apart from the markets/stores I've tried thus far which feel like they were made at a hackathon and then abandoned (and at least one literally was)
I feel your pain, man. Precisely why we're waiting for release over here at Conduit. Since our platform is strongly e-commerce based, we really gotta nail it on the core commerce pipeline.
My fingers are burnin' getting these clients to the people; but, we simply will not release until we've reached that golden "perfect enough" stage.
One of the cardinal sins of e-commerce is breaking the core commerce flow; Add to Cart, Checkout, Payment, Shipping, Confirmation. We aim to protect that pipeline at all costs. That connection between Customer and Merchant is sacred to us (mind the gravitas, I'm passionate about it lol).
We've got a complete decentralized-commerce checkout system occurring via Nostr events on relays, encrypted and private via structured content in NIP-17 direct messages, following an outbox model. I'm pretty stoked to make that system air-tight, for all of us.
I know for certain all of us GammaMarkets teams share the goal of bringing this method of e-commerce to stability, reliability, and ease of use to the Nostr network. We're all watching this thread quite closely, actually, and taking notes on the "good, bad, and fugly" that gets mentioned.
Like you, I hope all of our apps are wicked-cool and calm-in-a-storm, and I think we're on-route to have that by end-of-year, inshallah. We'll keep updates flowing from the nostr:nprofile1qyf8wumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetsv9njuetnqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsqgyajgrhch344am00vwds3ecqq9hhta585stpgnvrrlzn75r35n3gc3yccuz account, keep yer eyes peeled, and we'll keep busy for all the right reasons.
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We're aiming for a distributed professional-grade e-commerce system; interoperable, expandable, dependable, resilient, unstoppable. Conduit's full focus is de-commerce, so all our eggs are in this basket.
I actually work as an engineering tech lead at a Fortune 200 e-commerce company right now in fiat-land, so I'm leveraging that experience as as much as I possibly can to bring better systems to the world that are customer/merchant-driven, favor freedom over lock-in, and lift an entire generation of people who care out of the muck-and-mire of the data-extractive internet we've found ourselves in.
Onward, ever onward, keep on keepin' on, circle back soon.