Awesome! These guys are have a real chance of completely reinventing commerce on the web. Gonna be interesting to see which verticals they focus on first (given historical bitcoin marketplace verticals)..

The press release went out yesterday on their blog and OpenBazaar is LIVE 🔥 This new model of commerce is not controlled by a company. Allowing peer-to-peer trading with no fees. A little background on funding: In 2015, the OpenBazaar core-developers received funding from Union Square Ventures, Andreessen-Horowitz, and angel investor William Mougayar to form a company, enabling full-time development of the protocol and software. The company, named ‘OB1’, will continue releasing improved versions of the software over the coming months, and will begin offering services to users on the network.

I have been watching this develop over the last few years. Great to see it live. Well done to everyone involved. 👍

This could well be Bitcoin's killer app. Congrats to the @openbazaar team.

This will change everything... Look forward to future enhancements.

Interesting idea! Amazon killed middlemen, and now OpenBazaar makes you think of Amazons as middlemen. Evolution of commerce. Still thinking of markets OB1 can disrupt first...

Congrats on the launch! Just put up some fresh grey socks on my store, they are going to be a pretty hot item. Don't wait, they'll be gone! :P

OpenBazaar is one of the best techs since Bitcoin. I've already purchased some stuff and the UX feels so natural, especially if you have some Windows background. Just next, next, next, pay, done. I think people will easily get familiar with it.

Love the Idea of Openbazaar, I've been following it for sometime, glad they finaly release it. But I can't find anything :/ I think ProductHunt kill it (too much traffic)

OK, I'm in. Just put OpenBazaar on my desktop. Looks interesting.

Super exciting. Will be watching this. Great use of bitcoin. Two big biz model innovations at once though--bank shot. Hard!

Brilliant and interesting! The only question is what are you do if it used to buy and sell children, weapons, illegal drugs, etc. ?

Absolutely love this! Decentralization is going to be a major theme for innovation in the next few years. Love how you all have applied it to commerce. Two minor points of feedback: 1) After signing up for an account, maybe take me to the discover page instead of my account? Once I sign up, I want to start looking for things rather than look at my blank account page. 2) There's a minor typo in your first onboarding screen, "Please note that it may look and feel a bit different than what you're use to...". It should say, "used to". Congrats @openbazaar. Great work!

Used the beta release now this one. Extremely easy to use and I see a big future for this.

Very interesting! I do think a mobile app would be very helpful since in that case users are used in having to "download an app" for something. I can also imagine that one could have an app where you snap a picture of something and you tweet the ob link to it in pretty much two taps. There are similar mobile market apps, however since these have fees, this ought to overtake them and in that case it would be app vs app, rather than desktop web markets vs desktop app.

Congrats on getting it out guys! Very excited to see the ecosystem that springs up.

I'm super excited and so happy that there is an eBay version for Bitcoiners!

anyone have any stats on their current community? MAUs? Number of products? etc... @bentossell

Excited that it's finally out! Huge potential to change the marketplace landscape.

Will there be a website version? Not really feeling the download software approach. Transmission's ransom-ware debacle comes to mind.