Vision
Amazon / Upwork hybrid where all the sellers/buyers/freelancers are EAs.
Why
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Many EA run businesses would offer better deals to EAs
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EAs trust each other more than strangers
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The cost of being a bad buyer / seller are much higher (so people behave better)
Details
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10% commission to cover running costs, all proceeds fund community projects
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You can only sign up via a refferals (once initial users recruited)
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Classic stars out of 5 rating system for rating products/services
How to vote
Agreevote on "yes" to vote yes
Agreevote on "no" to vote no
My main reason for voting "no" is that I don't expect good answers to these questions, so if you have such answers (which cause me to also say "yes" to question 3), that would probably change my mind somewhat.
My secondary (but still big) pushback is that marketplaces need a critical mass of buyers and sellers, and creating such a critical mass is hard (and, in my opinion, a core problem and not a side note that can surely be solved somehow).
I do, btw, think that improving the level of marketplaces in the world is generally really great if it can somehow be done.
The people that need these things are not all here. I would suggest you consider posting this in other EA communities like the facebook groups and see if you can get more opinions. In my opinion, such website does not necessarily need to have thousands of users to be highly effective. One does not need to have "critical mass" in the common sense of the word in relationship to large scales. If a handful of people per week regularly use and routinely find solutions from such a "marketplace", it can still be said to be effective because with every conne... (read more)