Lets say I’m in a city and want to buy a specific item or a specific category of items.
It would be nice if there is a website which lists all the items (or at least their more granular categories) of all the local shops in my area.
To be clear, I don’t mean an onlineshop; I still want to go there physically. Just something like of a catalogue for all shops in a specific area.
google allows you to look for available close by. its hit and miss.
Which is a bad thing that only Google seems to be able to provide that :(
Many local governments have lists of local businesses to support, you could try finding your city’s municipality’s website and see if there’s such a list.
i dig this idea but it is a lot of work up front.
there’s this for nyc: https://thelocavore.com/
something like this is what you’re looking for?
It’s not perfect but eBay lets you sort your search results by distance.
I’ve been looking into building this. I was originally planning to fork Lemmy to do it but now it looks like NOSTR might be better suited to it.
How would you implement this with Nostr?
I’m planning to create such a platform as a POC for my masters degree but it will be based on Open Street Map or similar. (so don’t worry that I copy your idea ;) )
I’m not sure yet TBH, but you’re welcome to help or build your own.
I intend to make it an entirely free and open source platform that allows retailers to broadcast their inventory to aggregators. No ads just like Lemmy, though I suppose that the feed itself serves as kind of an ad.
It was intended for the cannabis industry. Then the plan was to roll it out to the rest of the retail world when it has evolved enough.
There’s also veilid.
I even started a community here: https://infosec.pub/c/lemventory
Interesting. As shown in a comment below, it will be difficult for existing shop operators to integrate such a system.
But if your project gets track I see nothing preventing me to create adapters so my service can consume the stream (well, if I really am going to build it).
