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

Love the idea,but how do you handle support,customer-shopper arbitration(either side claiming the delivery did or did not happen for example),really bad customers/shoppers (basically quality) without central management?

Another solution would be to have a separate pickup location where shoppers drop it off at that location and customers would pick it up at a different date. This helps people that want the convenience but also it helps eliminate "food deserts". If say whole foods is 10miles away,the grocery is delivered 5 milea away, that means people that consider 10 miles too far can now pick it up at a closer location. I think this whole idea has potential at a larger scale, I would love to order stuff from amazon or ebay and have it delivered at someone else's house where I can pick it up later -- one more layer of privacy if I use gift cards and the like to shop they will never need to know my name,phone and address directly. Storage providers can charge by the hour/minute.

Great concept -- open-source decentralized marketplace.

I believe the founders are from India, and buying vegetables/fruits from independent local vendors/farmers (vs a big box grocery store like in many western countries) on a daily basis is a norm, so this seems to be a natural extension.

Would be really interested to see how this goes -- if this problem can be tackled, even in narrow cases, it would serve as an interesting model for many other marketplace ideas.

This is a great initiative.

My suggestion is not have an app at all. Make it a PWA/TWA. It will work on both android/iOS, notifications will work properly and your development effort will significantly go down.

You can cut this even further by using one of the templates from here - https://themeforest.net/tags/pwa

How does the "decentralization" part actually work?

You're really in a minority here. Those webapps are barely used.

It's quite largely just an opinion: to me the if is perfect and super easy to use.