Introducing Vapor, the Steem Merchant Solution

in #steem7 years ago (edited)

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Conception of Vapor

As you may remember from my previous posts and my participation in a WhaleTank hangout, I've been planning this and developing this alongside my partner @bluemux. This came into my mind when I came across several payment processors in the Philippines, and I thought of emphasizing the payments use-case of Steem, most especially due to its 0 transaction fees and fast block-timing. After consulting several steem community bigshots, code documentation and @bluemux, we moved from v0.1 to v0.2 in a span of 2 weeks and are now already moving towards a working application.

What is Vapor?

  • Vapor is a mobile Steem/SBD POS (Point-of-Sale) to cater to merchants through both online and brick-and-mortar shops
  • Vapor is a mobile Steem/SBD wallet made with user experience in mind
  • Vapor is a proof of concept for a mobile multi-cryptocurrency merchant wallet
  • Vapor is a revival and modification of the old SteemPay web app

Goals

We want Vapor to not only be a reliable service, but also as a testing ground for several features for our upcoming mobile app that will work through the Bitshares blockchain. We want to develop our application as user-friendly as possible to cater to non tech-savvy users, but at the same time as functional as an interface to the blockchain can be.

About

The Philippines is a third-world country with a large chunk of the population being unbanked, however 90% of the country has a smart-phone capable of apps. We want to take advantage of this by capitalizing on the revolution on technology and spearhead financial tech in the Philippines by providing low merchant fees and no transaction fees made possible by the Steem Blockchain.

At the moment our founding and working team consists of 2, me, @emerge, and @bluemux. Both my partner and I have technical backgrounds in the Philippines are deeply rooted in the startup industry in the country. Soon, during the later phase of the project(s), we will be on-boarding serial entrepreneur and investor Howie Ross Valino into our team for Business Development and many more to come.

Special Thanks

I'd like to mention my friend @officialfuzzy and his BeyondBitcoin and WhaleTank and Whaleshares mumble and discord hangouts, the BEYONDBITS used to power and pay for costs and @bluemux's living :P , and everyone who's supported me and listened to me during the times I made announcements and teasers. Also many thanks to @xeroc for the Piston library and @alexpmorris for code consultations. Thanks also to STEEMPH and STEEMGIGS for the support, and @pnc for that random but much appreciated 5 STEEM donation! (we got to do a lot of testing with it! :P)!

I'd also like to thank @malicered for graphic design consultation and the current work he's putting on for our future app's logo.

Vapor and Abono

ABONO is a whale token using Bitshares that we will be using for our upcoming Steem account and meant to be used as a rewards token later on in the future through our flagship application Abono. (merchant discounts, gift cards and several other planned rewards through the merchant application)

Screenshots

Using Expo React, here are some screenshots we made from within the app!

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Please Upvote, Resteem and Share to all your friends to support Vapor and Abono!

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Super excited for this to launch! Imagine the potential savings of Pinoy steemians with this option at hand. Best of luck with your project! :)

Thanks so much dreamiely! Hope I can help a lot of people with this venture!
If you have any questions regarding my movements in the Philippines I'm always free at Discord!

Galing mo! Rooting for this! :)

This is awesome. Can't wait to use this @emerge and Vapor team! Incredible work!

Thanks @voronoi! Hope we get to work with you soon!

Hi @emerge - This is very valuable commerce and payment app for so many around the world. A great competitor to Paypal with the low/no fees aspect. GREAT to see this project coming along.

Thank you for the update. Hope to see you in the next Whaletank .

Thanks so much for your support from the start, and thanks for your feedback! Hope to be there as well!

Can't wait to use it myself :)

This is awesome, can't wait to use it. I have a question do, what is the difference between Vapor and Abono?

Vapor is strictly using the Steem blockchain, while Abono will be using the Bitshares blockchain, have loyalty rewards, payment processing for fiat and an improved codebase and UI from Vapor!

Ah ok. Would it be much more difficult to make Abono support STEEM as well?

well, as Steem is part of the Bitshares gateways and exchange, then i would believe that it hopefully isnt that hard

congratulation @emerge and @bluemux for your hard work. Keep up the work. It's a pleasure to support Vapor & Abono with the aim to bring Steem to merchants and mobile user around the world. You will find the support you need in the Steem/BitShares community. Can't wait to demo and share it. Best success.

thank you again for your kind words and feedback, we will do our best to provide the best product we can develop for the Steem and Bitshares community

Congratulations! I hope your app gets viral soon.

This sounds like something I'm gonna use full time once it's operational. Keep us posted. Would love to give it a test drive

Thank you for this wonderful work