OpenOMP is an open-source online market platform that can be used to quickly create niche online markets. 🛒

Niche markets are usually organized through specialized forums. Having a dedicated platform for a niche market helps the market to grow by making it more accessible than searching through obscure forums.

You can try out an example OpenOMP platform here:

https://openomp.herokuapp.com/

To test out the platform locally:

1. Download the whole project
2. Install all the python dependencies using requirements.txt
3. Run the app.py module.

At least Python 3.8 needs to be installed to run this web app.

You can modify the existing codebase to fit your niche market. The platform is build with the web-framework flask and is well known by many developers. This way its easy to find people to help you create your own platform.

Because of its small size, the platform can be hosted on heroku at no cost.

Ever item that has been added by a user has its own page, which also contains a long description of the item.

Through the messaging system users can connect with sellers. its possible to message sellers directly though their item pages.

The sellers page shows all items this seller has to offer.

Users can create their own accounts with using a username and a password.

Every user can sell their items by creating a new item page.