The problem TheySell 🏳️‍🌈 solves

After each march, rally, or inspirational moment of gathering, many of us will have a moment of wondering “What now?” After the Women’s or LQBTQ's March last weekend, the work to support gender equality does not stop and it must continue to evolve. TheySell is an initiative to empower women and LGBTQ in Indian society by connecting them to customers worldwide through anonymous and safe selling. The trans and queer youth who are houseless, in foster care, or otherwise without vital support receive the money they want and the affirmation they need from people all over the world. Help us show young trans people that they are loved and cherished exactly for who they are!

With TheySell, they can sell their goods worldwide without revealing their identities and without the hassle of any middlemen involved. The process will take place considering utmost safety of women and LGBTQ community! TheySell aims to be India’s largest Women + LGBTQ Oriented Product!

Features of TheySell :

• No Middlemen : All the revenue earned will be transferred to seller directly
• Anonymous Selling : The ID’s of sellers won’t be revealed to buyers
• IPFS : Product images are uploaded on IPFS for 24*7 availability
• Crypto Payments : Payment is done in ERC20 tokens
• Empowering Women : Women + LQBTQ community can safely sell goods

Challenges we ran into

-The main challenge was to make the product as de-centralized as possible which was achieved by using blockchain. It was also needed to take care of the vulnerabilities that arise due to the de-centralized approach as it is openly visible to the chain.
-For buying tokens converting the number of tokens to rupees and then Rs->ETH conversion is used which was acheived by interacting with an external API. With the aim to achieve de-centralization, CHAINLINK was used to avoid any central party affecting the contract
-The major challenge was to build efficient contract transactions which cost fewer transaction fees and faster mining of the transaction on the chain.
-Used python (web3.py) for building and interacting with the contract but had the challenge to also work on web3.js because of the full-stack ability of our application