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.
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).
At least in the cannabis industry here, they have a piece of software that they use to submit their inventories to the state. My current plan is to look into incorporating my system into that so I get accurate reports that are required by law to be done anyway.
I’d love to discuss further the pitfalls of my idea and any special considerations I might need to make.