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Show HN: Agriquery – helping people sell their food

#1

Post by combinatorzx » Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 1:37 PM UTC

We built Agriquery, a simple online marketplace designed to help farmers and small producers sell their produce directly to consumers (and businesses). Think Etsy, but for food.

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agriquery.com

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#2

Post by KomoD » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 12:21 PM UTC

> Think Etsy, but for food.

So... Etsy

https://www.etsy.com/se-en/c/home-and-living/food-and-drink

https://www.etsy.com/market/food

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#3

Post by sheddy25 » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 4:39 PM UTC

This is really good, I am a foodie and cook a lot. How do ensure food safety for the vendors?

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Post by ge96 » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 9:15 PM UTC

KomoD wrote: post #2

> Think Etsy, but for food. So... Etsy https://www.etsy.com/se-en/c/home-and-living/food-and-drink https://www.etsy.com/market/food

I gotta ask, how do they get around the thought this food was made by some random person (safety).

A fruit is better since it's natural though in theory not impossible it's injected with something

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Post by rmason » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 9:49 PM UTC

Seems like a great idea but it's a difficult problem to solve. One of the Code Michigan hackathon winners tried something similar about a decade ago but limited it to the Detroit metro area and if I remember correctly offered delivery. You could order from different farms and they'd make a single delivery to you.

Since then I have seen several startups attempt to execute on variations of this idea. Maybe they were too early and now its time.

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Post by metalman » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 10:58 PM UTC

sheddy25 wrote: post #3

This is really good, I am a foodie and cook a lot. How do ensure food safety for the vendors?

swiss model, zero regulation for sales that are direct from the grower to the consumer, no middle men allowed in any form, hand to hand, as this allows for full vetting and any issue is one to one. Anything else is full regulated. just another grocery store.

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Post by sheddy25 » Sun, Feb 23, 2025, 10:11 PM UTC

metalman wrote: post #6

sheddy25 wrote: post #3

This is really good, I am a foodie and cook a lot. How do ensure food safety for the vendors?

swiss model, zero regulation for sales that are direct from the grower to the consumer, no middle men allowed in any form, hand to hand, as this allows for full vetting and any issue is one to one. Anything else is full regulated. just another grocery store.

Can you elaborate more on the Swiss model please? cos when I I mean food safety, it’s not all about regulations but consumers trust of hygiene protocols of the vendors.