Dukaanly
Find and follow the shops near you.
Discover and follow the shops around you.
A local-commerce discovery app: find nearby shops, follow them and see their posts and offers in one feed.
The problem
The best shops in a neighbourhood are often the hardest to find online.
The best shops in a neighbourhood are often the hardest to find online. Their offers live on paper signs and forwarded messages, and reviews are hard to trust.
What we built
Dukaanly is a local-commerce discovery app.
Dukaanly is a local-commerce discovery app. You find nearby shops and services, follow them, see their posts and offers in a feed, read and write moderated reviews, and send enquiries. Merchants can claim and manage their own listings. Listings no merchant has claimed get clearly labelled assistant replies. It works in English, Hindi and Punjabi.
Key decisions
Local first.
- Local first. Location search runs on PostGIS for real “near me” results.
- Moderation built in. Reviews and media are moderated before they appear.
- Honest labels. Replies on unclaimed listings are clearly marked as coming from an assistant.
- Free to start. Orders and payments come later, once discovery works well.
Under the hood
One Expo / React Native codebase targets web, Android and iOS, with a separate web admin.
One Expo / React Native codebase targets web, Android and iOS, with a separate web admin. A Python FastAPI backend on AWS Lambda uses PostgreSQL with PostGIS, a moderated media pipeline and SQS / EventBridge workers. The AI layer sits behind a provider-neutral adapter. More than 550 automated backend tests and over 120 browser tests pass on the current build.
What’s next
Dukaanly is in development and not yet public.
Dukaanly is in development and not yet public. Native app checks, data permissions and a production launch come next.