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APIs are toll roads. If you need an API key just to read a price, it is not the Open Web. It is a walled garden. We designed this to be permissionless. A text file has no gatekeeper. It bypasses the rent seekers entirely. The standard must belong to the commons, or it becomes just another extraction layer. Keep fighting the good fight.

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I'm working on a Shopify alternative[0] as part of this decentralized marketplace. If adding support for CommerceTXT is not too difficult, I wouldn't mind adding it.

0. https://github.com/openshiporg/openfront

That would be a fantastic first implementation. Openship is exactly the kind of architecture CommerceTXT is built for. Integration is straightforward: it’s essentially just a new 'View' layer. Instead of rendering HTML, you render a .txt endpoint that maps your existing product DB to our fields. I'll head over to your repo and open an Issue to discuss how we can map Openfront's data to the spec. I'd be happy to guide the implementation myself. Let's get this moving!

Sure, that sounds good! Happy to hop on a call to get things moving.

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