In a praise-filled thread titled “Turned my Discourse into a successful ecommerce platform!”, WorldIsMine expresses deep gratitude to the Discourse team and community, calling the software reliable, fast, and superior to traditional forums. They reveal their Discourse instance powers a thriving e-commerce platform, SWAPD.co, generating $50M in sales volume with 82,000 members, 163k topics/listings, and 3M+ monthly pageviews. The platform uses custom plugins and theme components — including one for homepage HTML/text sections linked here — and timed topics. While WorldIsMine has contributed three plugins back to the community, they decline to open-source their full setup, citing hard-coded values and lack of general utility. Others, like PBS and ilker_Kaan_ipcioğlu, ask technical questions about UI elements and plugins, which WorldIsMine clarifies are custom-built. Ahmed_Abdelfattah echoes the sentiment that Discourse’s potential is limitless with plugins. The thread ends with a celebratory update highlighting impressive growth and success, thanking the Discourse ecosystem for enabling their achievements.
I would just like to send a big thanks to the entire team and the community for providing such a great piece of software. It’s reliable, fast, and it blows traditional forum software out of the water! I’ve turned our Discourse instance into a small marketplace community that is slowly climbing in sales/users/traffic.
The possibilities are endless when you throw a couple of plugins at Discourse. I recommend it 100%!
Are you comfortable sharing the url? I’m intrigued. 
Yes, that’s a custom plugin.
Any likelihood of open sourcing ?
Sorry, not at the moment.
Hey @WorldIsMine,
I see you are using timed topics. You can have a look at
Willing to open source yet? Would be great for the community!
Sorry but no. I have already contributed three plugins to the community.
Hi,
Is this Fee calculator something that you are willing to contribute to the community?
Sorry, not at the moment. It wouldn’t be useful anyway, all the values/etc are hard-coded just for our site. It has no option to edit values/responses.
Hello Dave,
Would you be able to provide some details on how to add a section of text/html to the home page? Just like in your site, you have a lot of details and then the category. I have raised a question in the forum also.
https://meta.discourse.org/t/empty-home-page/181436
Thanks,
Prashanth
It’s a theme component: Versatile Banner
Just wanted to give an update on how awesome discourse is 
We’ve been operational for over three years now and despite the low member count (25Kish) our instance is a sales powerhouse! Our company is now a fully certified escrow service managing hundreds of transactions per month (mostly services), all thanks to discourse. A big thanks to the entire discourse team!
2 posts were split to a new topic: New user needing help
Thanks for the bump, @Daniel_Del_Castillo
Since it’s been a while, here is an update:
