The Free Auction
thefreeauction.com Β· built and maintained soloA full online auction marketplace where anyone can list an item and anyone can bid. Not a template or a plugin β the bidding engine, the seller tools and the checkout were all written from scratch, and it's been running and getting new features ever since.
What's in it: live bidding with countdown timers, standard, Dutch and multi-lot auction formats, card payments through Stripe and PayPal, live shipping rates and labels through Shippo, sign-in with Google or Facebook, public seller storefronts, a seller analytics dashboard, phone verification, order management, and an admin side for moderation and support.
Why it matters for your project: payments, user accounts and shipping are where most small sites quietly break. I've already had to make all three work for real strangers spending real money.
- PHP
- MySQL
- JavaScript
- Stripe
- PayPal
- Shippo
- OAuth
- Cloudflare