Show HN: Nonprofit Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Shopping Platform

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Post by sumeetk » Fri, Nov 08, 2019, 12:35 PM UTC

Show HN: Nonprofit Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Shopping Platform
nearbyshops.org

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#2

Post by kovek » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 10:21 PM UTC

This is awesome!! I recognize the importance of this being decentralized. I used to think this would be done on the blockchain, but maybe this will do... even better!

Re: Show HN: Nonprofit Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Shopping Platform

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Post by yosefzeev » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 10:21 PM UTC

The concept of this looks neat, although I am not sure I understand all the use cases yet.

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Post by kovek » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 10:26 PM UTC

kovek wrote: post #2

This is awesome!! I recognize the importance of this being decentralized. I used to think this would be done on the blockchain, but maybe this will do... even better!

If people could mod the instance, you'd soon see people create their own "taxi service" instance. They'd have the server running on their smartphone and local users could find them and ask for a quote/estimate (calculated automatically or by the parked driver) to go to a certain destination.

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Post by keerthiko » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 11:07 PM UTC

This is really great, and I hope it gains traction -- it's nice to see things that can supplant the funded-walled-garden-startup incumbents for these such cases with services that embody the original vision of the WWW

Re: Show HN: Nonprofit Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Shopping Platform

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Post by mantlepro » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 11:28 PM UTC

Would there be a desktop or browser version of the software in the works? It'd be nice to see first-class support for free/libre operating systems so admins, shop owners, and customers alike wouldn't be forced to use walled-garden smart phone ecosystems.

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Post by frequentnapper » Sat, Nov 09, 2019, 11:36 PM UTC

it doesn't tell us in about us who the people behind it are.

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 10, 2019, 12:36 AM UTC

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Post by cvburgess » Sun, Nov 10, 2019, 12:54 AM UTC

I've been planning on building something like this for a while. I hope it succeeds and they document the journey.

Re: Show HN: Nonprofit Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Shopping Platform

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Post by _8j50 » Sun, Nov 10, 2019, 2:04 AM UTC

mantlepro wrote: post #6

Would there be a desktop or browser version of the software in the works? It'd be nice to see first-class support for free/libre operating systems so admins, shop owners, and customers alike wouldn't be forced to use walled-garden smart phone ecosystems.

This!