@juergen_hubert i think most of the things you mention can already be archived.
WordPress supports #activitypub and scheduled posting. Self hosting is a thing here, that way you can bundle the tools that you need to set up shop.

Someone could start a dedicated marketplace instance to distinguish business accounts.

Imo a free (!) market place could be a great addition to the #fediverse

@juergen_hubert Isn’t Bomb Fire designed to do this very thing? It had it’s 1.0 release I beleive

@WeirdWriter

You mean #Bonfire ?

@juergen_hubert Yes I was thinking someone could take one of their apps and extensions and easily make a thing that you described https://bonfirenetworks.org/apps/

@WeirdWriter @juergen_hubert

Yes, Bonfire deserves a close look before starting something new.

AND i love this idea.

If it's not primarily self hosted, easy portability of both content and followers will be crucial to this project's success. These businesses can't afford to lose their hard work.

(Source: I've been actively building sites and designing digital marketing plans for small and medium sized businesses for 15 years.)

@alisynthesis @WeirdWriter @juergen_hubert i would also suggest that Emissary could be a good starting point for this, but yes I think Bonfire might be interesting here. Incidentally I think the notion of some kind of “business pages” is totally valid! /cc @benpate

@andypiper @alisynthesis @WeirdWriter @juergen_hubert @benpate HubZilla is also worth looking into for this.

@moonshinebrigade @juergen_hubert I don't know where #Flohmarkt are at. They're focusing on classified ads, so I don't expect that there are any payment options available yet.

Hey Andy, thanks for the mention!

I might add a map of physical locations, and a map-based search for businesses.

@juergen_hubert - would you be interested in making a drawing or two of what this might look like? I'd be happy to make a prototype.

I have my hands full with.. stuff.. at the moment, so I'm not able to do much design work. But once we know what we're doing, the actual coding might only take an afternoon or two.

@andypiper @alisynthesis @WeirdWriter

@benpate @andypiper @alisynthesis @WeirdWriter

I'm also in the year-end rally at my day job, but I do have a two-week Christmas vacation coming up. I'll see if I can whip up something then!

Perfect! Let’s make something awesome

@juergen_hubert @andypiper @alisynthesis @WeirdWriter