Website : https://nearbyshops.org
Github : https://github.com/NearbyShops
Dear Friends,Website : https://nearbyshops.orgGithub : https://github.com/NearbyShopsWe are releasing first of its kind decentralized hyperlocal shopping platform. Which can by used for food or grocery delivery or any other hyperlocal business.You must have heard of Mastodon (https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon) a decentralized alternative to Twitter.Similarly Nearby Shops is a decentralized...
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.
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We just are waiting for raising some funds !
And they connect with Central API for user login purposes !
There will be multiple local market instance each managed by a separate cooperative.
There is no central management ... its a distributed platform !
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.
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Best Regards ! Sumeet Moray Founder - Nearby Shops Project
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 !
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 !
Greetings to everyone here at HN.I have been developing a food delivery and instacart like app ... which is open-source !This project received a very good response on Show HN ... and it even got to the front page of HN.Please Checkout : https://nearbyshops.orgMy question is that ... if i make this a nonprofit project ...Will people like it ... ?This project needs volunteers ... will i be able...
And may be an area where Open-Source could be of any help !
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 !
Well a PWA can be built for Nearby-Shops also ... it might be good to have !
Hasura GraphQl seemed like a good option ... because they also used PostgreSQL ...
What are your thoughts about migrating to graphql ...
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 ...