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Website : https://nearbyshops.org

Github : https://github.com/NearbyShops

nice initiative ... something which reminds me of ghost !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost

https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost

Sure we do need help ... Most important help we need right now is to bring Food, Grocery Stores on our platform.

We are also looking to collaberate with cooperatives of vendors who can create a market. They will benefit from a zero commission and low cost app.

It is a nonprofit version of regular food delivery or grocery delivery ... app !

Sure ! ... we will be glad to hear from you ... You can contact us at our forum https://forum.nearbyshops.org/

Create a new thread we will reply to you !

yes that was the original intent ... we want the platform to be open and welcoming to everyone !

That a good point ... we will surely be providing a web app in future ...

We just are waiting for raising some funds !

Yes its pretty much like that only ... there are multiple local market each self-hosted has their own server ...

And they connect with Central API for user login purposes !

We are considering forming cooperative's of local vendors who will do all the management.

There will be multiple local market instance each managed by a separate cooperative.

There is no central management ... its a distributed platform !

We will be adding a PWA and IOS app. Its not so much difficult to build it ...

We just need some funds and Investment ! and copy the screens already in the android app.

In lot of developing countries android is dominant platform so we though we would start with android.

Hello Friends,

If you like this Project Please share this project on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit !

Please Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and Lets discuss and work together ! Links are given on website !

We are Looking for Volunteers who can help this project ... Please Join Us and Help this project !

Best Regards ! Sumeet Moray Founder - Nearby Shops Project

PWA and IOS app is in the pipeline ... it will be coming soon !

Thank you ... We need volunteers ... You can help us through the Journey !

https://forum.nearbyshops.org/

Nice Question ! ... Anyone can self-host their Local Market Instance ... and create a local market ... a local market is a collection of many shops ...

A customer can access all the local markets in his area from a single mobile app.

He can buy from any market ... and login using just one account !

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for showing such a great support ! Let us address some of your questions here !

You dont need to have any coding knowledge to use the platform. Anyone can install Local Market Instance and Setup their market. Its similar to Mastodon Project https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon

All the local markets are accessible from your end-user app. So you dont need to publish any separate app.

We are anticipating that Vendor Cooperatives will help us manage the local markets.

When the project gains traction. We will be releasing the PWA and IOS app also. So dont worry about that at all !

Yes they all want to be the platform ... this is a kind of issue that is common with proprietary commercial projects ...

And may be an area where Open-Source could be of any help !

yes ... i checked out ... i wonder why it took me so much time to find that out ! ...

It would be great if you could keep in touch and post some issues on the Project Repository where you can Guide upon how can we improve the Code ! And what is the best tech-stack we should be using on the Backend side !

Your idea is also a good one ... funding local NGOs is also an essential initiative ... Yes i agree ... local business needs a boost !

Well a PWA can be built for Nearby-Shops also ... it might be good to have !

I was also thinking of migrating the backend to GraphQL ... But then it doesnt have an option to store images and auth still requires another server ...

Hasura GraphQl seemed like a good option ... because they also used PostgreSQL ...

What are your thoughts about migrating to graphql ...

yes ... you are correct .. the code on the backend side ... and also for Admin-app - needs refactoring ... i was planning that ... its just the matter of when i find some time !

I wont recommend anyone to contribute (for backend and admin app) until the refactoring is done !

I had been searching for some good project - Example for backend code ... but i was not really able to find one for Java ... for building REST API !

It was quite a struggle to work ... due to lack of proper tutorials and lack of good example projects ... for backend ...

But anyway ... your suggestions are very useful ... using Spring Boot would definitely improve the project ...

And i will also study about the liquibase and logging ...

I was avoiding ORMs but JOOQ seems like a reasonable option !

It is quite useful when experienced developers like you take your time to review and suggest improvements ...

no ... it's not in use anywhere i believe ...

yes it is similar and the fact that both are non-profit makes it similar in the way project organization is done !

But nearby shops includes shopping for other stuff also !

simple and sweet - quite interesting and useful !

yes you can add delivery person and there is a special dashboard for delivery person ... live location tracking will be SURELY available in future releases !

Thank you for sharing your experience ... quite interesting ... to read ...

what in your experience is better option for delivery ... delivery by the restaurant or the delivery by the aggregator platform ...

The first is already there and we are planning to bring the latter one also to the software !

interestingly Hyperlocal wasn't in my dictionary ... i used to promote this project as something that could help in local shopping ... but then i discovered hyperlocal and i saw the concept is quite similar !

like y4mi pointed out ... there is a wikipedia article on this word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlocal

I started promoting this project only recently ... lets see how it goes !!

In countries like India and even other parts of the world ... lot of small business --- mom and pop stores are losing business and not able to compete with bigger stores, malls like walmart ...

This project was just an attempt to help them ... may be just technologically ... so that they could compete and stay technologically competitive with big business !

Right now we assume that the Price of the Item includes the taxes ... therefore we haven't added taxes in the end-user bill. We add delivery fee and market fee and calculate the Net-Payable.

But as you say ... if its needed we can add taxes ... in the bill ... and its not so much difficult to integrate that ...

I will be glad to see more contributions to the project ... i believe one of the best advantages of open-source is that people can share and collaborate openly !

Yes it is more than just a food delivery platform ... it was originally designed for local shopping ... but i discovered that it can be used for food delivery as well !

Its primarily designed for fruits, vegetables, grocery, but you can use it for anything ... we are currently adding filtering by item specifications ... which might be more useful in your use-case ...

Currently The delivery is provided by the shop-owner ... ... there is orders inventory ... where the shop-owners can keep track and update the order progress like if its packed and ready for delivery ...

Its just another e-commerce platform which is more focussed for local shopping !

Hope that helps !

Yes this app can also be used as P2P shopping, local job discovery and food delivery ...

I believe ... more than technical ... its upto the government who will decide they want to allow p2p shopping stuff ...

Because government has to account for taxes in e-commerce ... so a lot depends on local government and what it allows !!!

... yes it exist ... i can confirm ... it got there by mistake ...