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49 points theturtletalks | 3 comments | | HN request time: 0s | source

I'm building an open source Amazon.

In other words, an open source decentralized marketplace. But like Carl Sagan said, to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

So first I had to make open source management systems for every vertical. I'm launching the first one today, Openfront e-commerce, an open source Shopify alternative. Next will be Openfront restaurant, Openfront grocery, and Openfront gym.

And all of these Openfronts will connect to our decentralized marketplace, "the/marketplace", seamlessly. Once we launch other Openfronts, you'll be able to do everything from booking hotels to ordering groceries right from one place with no middle men. The marketplace simply connects to the Openfront just like its built-in storefront does.

Together, we can use open source to disrupt marketplaces and make sure sellers, in every vertical, are never beholden to them.

Marketplace: https://marketplace.openship.org

Openfront platforms: https://openship.org/openfront-ecommerce

Source code: https://github.com/openshiporg/openfront

Demo - Openfront: https://youtu.be/jz0ZZmtBHgo

Demo - Marketplace: https://youtu.be/LM6hRjZIDcs

Part 1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32690410

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joshribakoff ◴[] No.46258401[source]
This is a very low quality submission. Its a vibe coded app that gives me a chat ui. When i ask for soup it shows me t shirts.
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1. orbeliani ◴[] No.46258742[source]
Don’t confuse vibe coding with a low effort build, vibe coding can lead to the high-quality, amazing products. I’m just here to protect the vibe coding phenomenon :D
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2. happytoexplain ◴[] No.46258880[source]
It's just a semantic disagreement. In my experience, "vibe coding" means "software made with genAI, casually iterated until it passes tests and appears to work, without exhaustive or experienced review of the output, and is therefore often bad." It doesn't have to mean that, but in practice that seems to be the dominant definition currently.
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3. tempsaasexample ◴[] No.46261395[source]
I watched YouTube howtos, and read 1000 stackoverflow results around 2016 and made my own saas for the construction industry in PHP/jQuery. Was a car salesman before that. I have 34 companies using it today. I promise you, a vibe coded app would be an improvement. So what's the problem really?