Platform for supporting local sellers and buyers
9 comments
·February 4, 2025prawn
kristianc
This — two sides marketplaces are probably the hardest type of business to grow and scale, you'd be much better at focusing on a specific locale and directing traffic there (even with social/PPC) than going with an empty search box.
cess11
Doesn't show anything unless I run scripts.
So I looked at https://blunum.com/manu-4cf782dm4.mjs, which is kind of weird? Like, why does it define empty functions just to fill out a()-z(), and how is it decided which characters get a non-empty function body? The static data structures holding stuff like currency and country information also make me itchy, as does the convoluted string stitching.
Is this the result of some well-known tool?
0asa
Remind me of this one: https://shareish.org With a nice paper: https://ht.csr-pub.eu/index.php/ht/article/view/487
jangliss
I couldn't find any locations on the Channel Islands. Where did you get your place list?
smackeyacky
Clicked around, felt like I knew less than when I started. Facebook marketplace sucks but this is just confusing.
robshep
"Blunum bils in Xcent only"
We tried a variant of this with token/credit-based accounting instead of local current Failed miserably. We learnt that "Confused says no" the hard way.
Good luck.
dvh
When I search city I see flag, so you know the country, but I can't search by typing name of the country.
seper8
What a fever dream of a website...
Any locale I searched had zero results. You should at least encourage people in that situation to be the first to list something.
Probably a good idea to focus on a particular location first and spread out from there. And prioritise that location on the front page, rather than having it empty with just a search field.