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49 points theturtletalks | 1 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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Hackbraten ◴[] No.46254040[source]
The landing page scrolls with 2 fps on my phone, making it completely unusable.

I wish there was a browser setting to disable CPU-heavy CSS filters in Firefox to fix pages like this one.

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simianparrot ◴[] No.46262160[source]
Don’t use Firefox. It’s practically no longer a maintained browser engine because Mozilla has other priorities. Not a problem in Safari or Chromium.
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1. llbbdd ◴[] No.46270482[source]
You're downvoted but you're right. I give it less than 10 years before Firefox is relegated to a SourceForge download. Firefox has almost the same usage stats as "Samsung Internet", which is just the default browser on Samsung phones. Firefox has the same install rate as a browser that is just available by default on every phone bought from Samsung. I love Firefox, I loved firebug; it's 2025, Google Chrome is the Internet.