• mamotromico@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    I’m both curious and clueless about what “geared towards inventory” could possibly mean

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      8 months ago

      Here’s the gist of my idea so far:

      stores (or alliances of stores in similar industries) :: instances

      inventory items :: posts

      counts :: votes

      item categories (or entire stores depend on implementation) :: communities

      moderators are only allowed to post items to their own community or instance.

      comments can still exist (perhaps as item reviews with the same upvote/downvote mechanic).

      No actual transactions would be processed over this protocol. It would be solely for inventory broadcast/aggregation (like Shopify in that it houses the inventory of many vendors except without the transaction ability built-in since pub-sub is horrible for that kind of thing).

      Edit: if you have any opinions (even “what a stupid idea!”) I’d be open to them. I haven’t even written a single line of code yet and it’s a fresh idea in my head waiting to be shot down by someone less idealistic than myself.