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Thanks, that is a lot of useful signal.
Multisig: agreed, it is the biggest gap. I had 2-of-3 with the platform as arbiter on paper; the DKG approach with offline arbitrators in your post is new to me and I will read it properly.
Notifications: you do not have to sit on the site. Browser push exists for new messages, questions and expiring listings, in-app notifications too. No email by design and nothing like SimpleX yet. If push is not enough for sellers, that is worth hearing.
Username: you are right, the name is generated at registration and cannot be changed today. That is a gap, not a principle. Reputation on the platform comes from confirmed deals, and a name you actually chose is part of that.
Social: promoting listings only with the seller's tick is a deliberate choice, some sellers here do not want their listing on X or Nostr at all. The generic posts on X are fair criticism, fewer and more concrete is the fix.
Bazaar forum: will read. Eight sales a day as the whole market is a sobering and useful number.
You need that multisig.
Consider newer stuff for it, thought this's uncharted grounds:
#338506
There're parts of bazaar some people don't agree with, read the forums, study the conversation, see how you can differentiate your site and if you can iterate faster. If you truly believe your platform is solving pain points of people better/faster, just shill it there gracefully/elegantly.
https://xmrbazaar.com/forum/
If you don't feel like reading all the convo, ask an LLM like Manus to crawl the whole thing and give you a summary or link for important threads.
I don't think you need to wait for seller permission to advertise their stuff on social media, they get free hosting of the listing, it's reasonable you get reasonable right to post about it on social media. After all it's for benefit of everyone. The seller would benefit of being on a platform that's actively pushing promotion of their listing and the platform rather than not doing it.
I was following your @kashilo on social media but stopped since it was sharing generic info type of stuff last I checked. Signal/noise ratio on social media is important IMO, sometimes less is more.
You think no email is a feature, perhaps for some, but how would people get notified of new orders? Expecting people to sit on website is lacking UX. IDK if your platform allows for P2P Monero exchange listings, but no way I'm making a listing and constantly checking a small platform to see if there's any new orders, you better lower the energy needed for people to try it via offering external notifications like emails etc. or simplex whatever.
I logged into my acc, name shows "SubtleMoose52" wtf that's, no way to change username? If I can't set my name to SoulReaver, no multisig, no way for anyone to trust me on your platform in any way shape or form. You might be leaning on anon angle too much, missing the portion that trust is derived from clean reputation.
Your platform has cleaner design in some sense but too barebones. Bazaar might look busy but relative to amount of listings and sellers, the actual sales are limited. By some averages and there's like 8 sales/day happening, and it's average, meaning surely it skews towards somewhere. That's the market share you're trying to get a slice from currently, good for you to consider.
Some of it is really marketing, you need good yappers/shillers, or become one yourself.
etc.