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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
iOS does not support web push notifications
So it's just an Android app and not a website? One of my great frustrations with current platforms is that they're just apps. The UX is terrible: I'm stuck on a tiny screen, I can't search (control+f) and have to scroll through endless lists, I can't copy text (e.g. Google translate), etc. Even though delivery is ridiculously cheap where I currently live (Indonesia), I find I use it a lot less than back home in Europ…
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.
I don't know how many people are using the web app, but you're going to have to do a hell of a lot better to casually dismiss my user experience report. Even just 15% or 20% increase would probably be a good ROI, as a basic webapp is not very time-consuming to write and maintain if you already have an API for the native apps (it's fine to rely on the mobile app for account management etc.)
As for the UX, if you just use the "offers for you" then it's okay, but once you want something specific (that is, you're actually shopping for something) things tend to get harder. I don't think it's controversial to say that a 22" screen works a lot better here than a tiny 5" screen.
One paper found that desktop has 111% more sales than mobile[2]. That's a whopping difference! Two explanations for this:
1. Desktop UX is better, so customers find what they need and buy it, whereas they can't find it on mobile.
2. Mobile devices tend to be used quite a lot as "time killers": something you do when you're waiting for something else. So at least some of that "40% mobile traffic" is just time-killing browsing.
Either way, reports of the desktop's death have been greatly exaggerated.
[1]: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/deliveroo-statistics/
[2]: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/m-commerce-terrible-ux/
So it's just an Android app and not a website? One of my great frustrations with current platforms is that they're just apps. The UX is terrible: I'm stuck on a tiny screen, I can't search (control+f) and have to scroll through endless lists, I can't copy text (e.g. Google translate), etc. Even though delivery is ridiculously cheap where I currently live (Indonesia), I find I use it a lot less than back home in Europ…
I wonder how much work it'd be to port the ux to a web site/app.
Hello, looks like a cool project. I had a quick read and here is what I picked out: * I can stand up my own server ( Java REST API + PostgreSQL) * I then need to update each app to my server URL * Application source is released under MIT https://github.com/NearbyShops/Nearby-Shops-End-User-Android... * I require a license to modify them https://nearbyshops.co/pricing.html * I don't think that's compatible with MIT li…
> What will happen if i dont pay license fee ?
> In such case your use of software for commercial purpose is both unethical and illegal. You wont be receiving any official support in such case. We wont be helping you.
No support is fine - but the source is distributed as MIT... I'm guessing the intent here might be that you're free to change and distribute if you host your own back-end service for the api?
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 !
How does the "decentralization" part actually work?
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 !
I've been planning on building something like this for a while. I hope it succeeds and they document the journey.
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
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