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CREATE · TINY STORE KIT

YOUR OWN BITMAP SHOP

Name it, colour it, choose which BITMAPs to show. Download one file and put it on GitHub Pages, Netlify or any host. Listings stay live; buyers always sign in their own wallet.

Reads listings from bitmapwin.app; BUY opens the BitmapWin checkout.

Free and open — change the file however you like.

HOW TO LAUNCH YOUR SHOP

Five steps, no coding needed. Takes about 10 minutes.

  1. 01
    CUSTOMIZE

    Fill in your shop name, tagline and colour above. Add your seller address to show only your own listings, or set a block range or max price to curate. The preview updates as you type.

  2. 02
    DOWNLOAD

    Press DOWNLOAD MY SHOP. You get one file called index.html — that is your whole shop.

  3. 03
    CREATE A GITHUB REPOSITORY

    Sign in at github.com (free account), press New repository, give it a name like my-bitmap-shop, set it to Public and create it.

  4. 04
    UPLOAD THE FILE

    In the new repository, choose Add file → Upload files, drag in index.html and press Commit changes.

  5. 05
    TURN ON GITHUB PAGES

    Open Settings → Pages. Under Branch pick main and / (root), then Save. After a minute your shop is live at yourname.github.io/my-bitmap-shop. To change it later, make a new file here and upload it again.

PUT YOUR SHOP ON BITCOIN (OPTIONAL)

Inscribe it once and it stays on Bitcoin forever — no hosting. Small fee, paid by you to miners.

  1. 01
    CHOOSE YOUR WAY

    Easiest: use the ord wallet with the normal index.html and the --compress flag — ord packs it for you. If you use an inscription service instead, only upload the .html.br file when it lets you set content type text/html and content encoding br; otherwise upload the normal index.html.

  2. 02
    ORD COMMAND

    ord wallet inscribe --fee-rate <sats/vB> --file index.html --compress — ord checks the fee and shows the cost before anything is sent. You sign and send it yourself; BitmapWin never does.

  3. 03
    OPEN YOUR SHOP

    After it confirms, your shop lives forever at ordinals.com/content/<your inscription id>. Browsers open it normally; very old tools that can't read packed files may show an error instead.

WHAT STAYS LIVE

The file is only the shop window. Every time someone opens it, it asks bitmapwin.app for the current listings, and BUY opens the BITMAP's page on the BitmapWin marketplace for checkout. If bitmapwin.app is unreachable, the shop shows "COULD NOT LOAD LISTINGS" and nobody can buy through it until it's back. Only listed BITMAPs appear. This is the version you can also inscribe.

WHERE BUYING HAPPENS

Your shop is a window, not a checkout. When a visitor presses BUY, they go to that BITMAP's page on the main BitmapWin marketplace and sign there with their own wallet. Payment goes straight to the seller on Bitcoin — your shop never holds coins, keys or BITMAPs. A listing marked IN CHECKOUT is briefly reserved by another buyer.