Comment by ongtektjan | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ongtektjan | Hacker News Reader

We are building Titipku (https://titipku.com/) which is "Instacart" for local markets in Indonesia, where we help households to buy daily groceries from nearby local markets in their residence areas. The Covid 19 has made people unable to buy their daily needs from local markets, meanwhile merchants in local markets are also suffering and need help to sell their goods. We solved this by helping to on board all merchants in every local market in our application, households can make an order in a few minutes, and there are personal shoppers who will go to the local market, buy the order and deliver to buyers. For example a household in Kelapa Gading Jakarta can make an order to buy many products from many merchants in Mandiri Market Kelapa Gading as one single order, then Titipku will assign the order to a personal shopper who will serve the order until delivery to the buyer instantly.within 1 hour. You can see an intro video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b6SXH0BR-w. Happy to answer questions!

This is amazing. I just forward it to my SO and we probably will try it.

We've been shopping weekly at a supermarket groceries store, think like Giant, Hypermart, or Lulu Hypermarket. We realized even though the experience is fine, this is not ideal. There are million small merchants that rely on daily income to be able to feed their family, so my purchases could be significant for them.

Thank you, Karim. We are very happy for your support. Please give us some feedback. Let me know the name of your family or college so we contact them and monitor their order.

I'm from Malaysia and I once tried to do something very similar. What makes this better than other services like Foodpanda, Grab, and HappyFresh? What does Titipku do better?

Also what's your policy on non-halal groceries in the app? One of the things that put me off was seeing pork and alcohol on the front page, which implies it might get mixed with halal deliveries. Titipku implies that it buys "anything".

We have feature that customer can order many products from multiple merchants in the local market. This order is treated as one order. We give the sign for customer to inform which products that labelled as non halal. Thanks

Good to see more Indonesian startups. I wish you the best of luck. I'm interested on how titipku would fare against behemoths such as goshop, sayurbox etc.

Thank you!! You will do our best for Indonesia's local markets.

Nice to see an Indonesian startup. It's like Jastip but for groceries. Interesting.

Thank you. We have special promo for Indonesian Independence Day. Kindly try it!!

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