Show HN: Build your own local lockdown economy
edinburghlockdowneconomy.com
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Regardless, it's always good to see alternatives to Facebook groups.
The nature of the business should perhaps be more prominent than the name - it's what they sell that's important when browsing a directory.
I also note that while Edinburgh is the target, businesses from Fife and East Lothian are not easily distinguishable from more relevant local businesses.
Some kind of map integration would be useful to see location and, where relevant, delivery radius (which seems to be an issue at the moment). This would help me work out what I could reasonably collect in a single trip.
Good effort, particularly the information to others to reproduce their own versions. I think there's work to do to make it live up to its name.
We'd love to add a solid way of helping people only see which services they can have delivered to them. The issue here is that every business has a different rule - 1m radius from shop, specific postcodes, only on certain days of the week. We're no-coders and this problem pretty much exposes the limitations of a solution like this. Despite that, it would still take a developer weeks to crack that one and how many extra weeks to ensure the 500+ business listings had the right data to support a technical solution. We gambled that lockdown wouldn't last long enough to invest in it and instead just show a delivery area label so you can see at a glance.