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by dodyg 2877 days ago
Nice name :) Greetings from Cairo.

My team is working on an hyperlocal e-commerce system that connects small stores with people in their neighborhoods. Delivery is limited to walking or bike distance performed by the vendors themselves.

Cairo is full of small vendors in every street. Most of people living in high rises. You can get everything delivered already.

At the first stage we will just save vendors from taking orders via the phone by hand by allowing them to receive orders on their phone. The next step is to create credit system that eliminate the wastes of vendors or customers when they don't have exact change.

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Hi! I posted a desire for something like this on the thread already! I just want to say I'm interested. I think it would be cool if people could share their stuff or sell their stuff to maybe a select group of people like family or extended family. The deal is it needs fulltext search and the ability to have privacy. This sort of thing would be great for situations like "I want to make ice cream. Should I buy an icecream maker for $99? Lets look at what my family has.. Oh great, Beth still has hers I'll message her to see if I can borrow it"
Yeah. Right now I think people rely on WhatsApp groups for things like these.