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Nile: decentralized, commission-free, local-economy focused ecommerce

UPDATE: We are on Discord [here](https://discord.gg/je27JSc) I already wrote the description of the project as if it's already an established organization, but it is not. I'm searching for developers, lawyers and advertisers interested in the project! ## Description ### Why? We live in a society in which huge corporations have the power to influence economies and trends. Today the big companies that owns the online market don’t pay taxes, they underpay their employees, and they are disrupting local economies. We think that the world deserves a better alternative, so we decide to found Nile. ### What is Nile? Nile is a decentralized ecommerce that promotes local stores, and it’s commission free: all the money you pay for a good goes directly to the seller. Nile is made to be, as far as possible, similar to the online shops you already use; so, when you are searching for something, you’ll not even notice that you are using a decentralized system. ### How will you earn money? The application is decentralized so we just need money for the developers, the lawyers and the advertisers, we don’t have to build and maintain a huge and expansive network infrastructure. So we’ll just earn money from advertisement, but it will not be specific for you, because we want your data to be yours, and we will accept to advertise only local products. ### How do you build a decentralized ecommerce? Every city (or village) will have a Nile instance, the Nile instance is needed to group all the sto

Posted by marcocastignoli on Aug 6, 2018, 11:06 AM

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Nile: decentralized, commission-free, local-economy focused ecommerce

marcocastignoliAug 6, 2018, 11:06 AM

UPDATE: We are on Discord [here](https://discord.gg/je27JSc) I already wrote the description of the project as if it's already an established organization, but it is not. I'm searching for developers, lawyers and advertisers interested in the project! ## Description ### Why? We live in a society in which huge corporations have the power to influence economies and trends. Today the big companies that owns the online market don’t pay taxes, they underpay their employees, and they are disrupting local economies. We think that the world deserves a better alternative, so we decide to found Nile. ### What is Nile? Nile is a decentralized ecommerce that promotes local stores, and it’s commission free: all the money you pay for a good goes directly to the seller. Nile is made to be, as far as possible, similar to the online shops you already use; so, when you are searching for something, you’ll not even notice that you are using a decentralized system. ### How will you earn money? The application is decentralized so we just need money for the developers, the lawyers and the advertisers, we don’t have to build and maintain a huge and expansive network infrastructure. So we’ll just earn money from advertisement, but it will not be specific for you, because we want your data to be yours, and we will accept to advertise only local products. ### How do you build a decentralized ecommerce? Every city (or village) will have a Nile instance, the Nile instance is needed to group all the sto

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