Well, Plebeian market is dead. Can't say the word "password" on there, no replies to my bug request, no comments on my merge request, no notifications when someone makes a purchase, other than some JSON that goes to the store npub instead of my personal one.
Too bad too. It LOOKS nice, but not being functional ia a dealbreaker for me.
Bummer
Bah. I’ll share the feedback.
In the meantime have you tried:
Shopstr.store
Cypher.space
Conduit.market
Thank you sir as always. nostr:nprofile1qqsfmys8030rttmk77cumprnsqqt0whmg0fqkz3xcx8798ag8rf8z3spzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t05kjxhw will be ready for public use in September
nostr:npub16v82nr4xt62nlydtj0mtxr49r6enc5r0sl2f7cq2zwdw7q92j5gs8meqha plebeian market is upgrading to the latest marketplace spec
It was built on the marketplace NIP that was WAY more involved than the simple listing NIP
They’re actively working on refactoring towards the NIP-99 marketplaces spec! Check out nostr:nprofile1qqsyda3mvuruue6fvl3nq2p39d8espqee26zppfs7u3sx8jd7ccrayqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny9upx9hyl for more info
I came to this conclusion about 3 months ago
I wanted to believe. But when a single line merge request isn't even commented on, it's clearly the end.
They’re working on updating to NIP-99 specification which should improve things! Give them another look once that epoch is completed. After they’ve successfully shifted to that spec we should have 4 marketplaces sharing the same product pool. The more options the better.
All the Marketplace projects are in a "growing pains" phase right now; Shopstr.store is leading the charge for classifieds, Cypher.space has an excellent multi-feature platform, and Plebeian's continuing its excellent legacy right in the middle of changing specs from NIP-15 to NIP-99. Us at nostr:nprofile1qyf8wumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetsv9njuetnqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsqgyajgrhch344am00vwds3ecqq9hhta585stpgnvrrlzn75r35n3gc3yccuz are still working on releasing our two apps, Conduit Market and Conduit Merchant Portal. All of us are building apps for a new version of the NIP-99 spec created less than a year ago, so we're a bit disadvantaged as a de-commerce network at the moment while we finish puttin' together our systems and making 'em play well with each other.
Rest assured nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7cnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqzp5cw4x82vh5487g6hylkkv82284n83gxlp75nasq5yu6auq249g3laex7r , Nostr de-commerce is on the way, and in my opinion at least, it's going to be totally kickass.
Backup and tertiarry targets acquired. I will keep trying.
But if I don't find a MVP after 5 tries, I might just give up and tell people to email me their order. I've already been burned twice and it takes a fair amount of time and effort to give these things an honest try (learn their system, file good bug reports, check back regularly for responses, follow up when nobody responds, etc.)
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.
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)
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.
I went to cypher.space and searched for "honey" and it took me to an empty page at honey.cypher.space. I don't understand how that marketplace is supposed to work.
Sounds like a bug, I know nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqpqequrmqway3qxw3dkssymusxkwgwrqypfgeqx0lx9pgjam7gnj4ys4rqce7 is watchin' the thread
Less of a bug and more of a legacy feature, at some point I allowed you to buy subdomains for your shop resolving from your Nip5. But the search is not for products only npubs or nip5 adres. For cypher the plan was to boilerplate a shop so you can self host the solo market place kinda birthed out of that.
If I wanted to search for someone who sells honey, is there a way to do that on cypher.space?
Nope, that would have been a neat thing to have added to the search bar somehow though. You would have need to know the vendors npub or their name would have to contain honey with the current build.
Also follow-up for those who bought one at the time it should still resolve ex. https://soapminer.cypher.space nostr:nprofile1qqsppdnxpjc82jlm3yn9gawhv7p4nm69a3f80rg5ycw305xned2s0hcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7tnxqd6 best soap in the biz 🤘
