Question for you, will the online store feature the businesses that currently accept Grantcoin, and will you add them to the app as more businesses come on board?
The store will start as a carefully curated selection of opportunities for people to spend Grantcoin, and also selected charities that will accept it too. Generally speaking, our philosophy for developing the store will be to begin with product areas that are easier to deal with as a merchant, such as things that can be sold digitally or based on a vendor-direct business model, rather than handling inventory and shipping. We will start in a simple way and hopefully add more product categories later on, after the store demonstrates success.
We'll be putting out an announcement with some overall info about the store within the next few days. We're hoping to launch it within a couple of months.