Market software

i was just wondering, if one wanted to start a .onion market, and one had the programming chops, how would one go about creating the software? How did the current markets create their software? Start with some e-commerce package or open source code and modify it? Write it from scratch? It would have to not used JS or Ajax. It would have to have escrow and btc and have security issues plugged up. But if one came to the conclusion that the days of the one big central market are over because they are too vulnerable to failure and many smaller ones is a better idea, how would one start to create one of those without making the stupid mistakes others have made starting out?


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[2 Points] None:

Unless you REALLY fucking know what you're doing, don't write it from scratch. It'll be taken offline in a day.


[1 Points] CocaineNose:

Only a small amount of markets are from scratch. The others are all modified and most use the same or similar frameworks. I'm pretty sure they even sell them on the real deal marketplace.


[1 Points] oxygen-team:

We 've created our market from scratch.


[1 Points] The_Grid_Is_Up:

If you do decide to do this, be prepared for Roboto-san and his cronies to punch holes in it. That's their thing apparently.


[1 Points] my_bum_hurts_bad:

It seems like there are a lot of new markets coming online soon. So my interest in doing one is waning. But here's the problem with markets: Markets solved most of the trust issues between buyers and sellers. But now the trust issue is between the markets and the community. How does that get solved? Because no matter how well intentioned people are when starting a market, when the dollars in the float become so massive, they can't help becoming greedy. It's just human nature. They have to be separated from having control of that float somehow. That float belongs to the community, not to them.