Case study: Open Exchange platform
This week I finished MVP for open exchange platform. The idea behind project is to allow people who have resources or services in demand on the market exchange them with each other without money. It is old known barter with support of new technologies.
Money was a next step in economic relationships of the mankind. Unfortunately economic system has evolved in the state when they are quite often abused: threats from certain power groups to shutoff from world economic system, banks loans under interest higher than percent of GDP growth, living in debt by just printing dollars.
Free money (german 'Freigeld') of Gesell, USSR solutions or gift economy such as "Darudar" are interesting alternatives that should have place. This platform is another attempt to fill the gap in the world.
After deployment alpha version allows to create person offers&demands and match with requested resources&services offered by others. Next steps in development would be increasing matching accuracy and exploring blockchain tech stack to the benefit of the project.
Tech stack:
Android, kotlin, NodeJS, javascript, jest
Source code
Update: later publications which covers next year of work after first release:
Swap tech notes, part 1: smart contracts integration
Swap tech notes, part 2: test coverage
Swap tech notes, part 3: server and mobile clients
Swap tech notes, part 4: automatization
Docker: multicomponent project deployment
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