Famooshed is an online marketplace that connects local shoppers with independent food producers, farmers, bakers, butchers, and more. Mobilions built a cross-platform app where shoppers search by geolocation, see local merchants by food type, and order directly from each merchant's online store.
A summary of the product and Mobilions' role.
Famooshed is an online market that partners with local independent food producers to give them a platform to sell their produce directly to the local community. Those producers include farmers, dairies, growers, distillers, brewers, fishermen, bakers, butchers, and allotment gardeners.
Mobilions built the cross-platform app for iOS and Android. The marketplace lets local shoppers search for products by their geolocation, displays local merchants by food type, and lets shoppers order online directly from each merchant's online store.
The app is aimed at community-based local food buying in the UK, connecting nearby producers with nearby shoppers.
The essential facts about the product and its market.
Ecommerce (food and drink)
iOS and Android
First released 2021.
United Kingdom.
The work Mobilions delivered for this build.
The core technologies typical of an app of this kind.
The problems an app like this must solve.
Independent local food producers often lack a shared channel to reach nearby shoppers, and shoppers have no single place to find local produce. The product needed to bring many independent merchants into one marketplace and connect them with shoppers in their immediate area.
A geolocation marketplace must determine a shopper's location, surface nearby merchants filtered by food type, and route orders to the correct merchant's store, across both iOS and Android, with many independent merchants and catalogs in a single app.
How a build like this is approached.
The team looked first at the supply side, where local food comes from many independent producers, farmers, dairies, bakers, butchers and brewers among them, each selling through its own store. For a shopper, what matters first is how close a producer is and then what kind of food it sells. Reaching a local community also meant being on both iOS and Android. The result was Famooshed, a proximity-led local food marketplace, with geolocation deciding what a shopper sees and each merchant keeping its own catalogue and orders.
A marketplace app pairs a cross-platform client with backend services that hold merchants, catalogs, and orders, and uses geolocation services to rank and filter merchants by proximity and food type.
One cross-platform codebase ships the Famooshed local food marketplace to both the App Store and Google Play. Shoppers search by their location, browse by food type and category, narrow results with search filters, and open a merchant page showing that producer's own store, offers and coupons. Sign-in includes social login, so a shopper can start ordering without a long registration. Ordering runs through cart, delivery address and checkout tied to the merchant being bought from, and live order tracking and order history keep each purchase visible after it is placed.
The notable technical choices behind the build.
Discovery is built around the shopper's geolocation, so the app surfaces local merchants by food type rather than a generic catalog. Location is the primary filter for what a shopper sees.
The app aggregates many independent producers into one marketplace, with each merchant maintaining its own online store that shoppers order from directly.
Building cross-platform reaches both iOS and Android shoppers from a single codebase, fitting a community marketplace where reach matters.
Why the technology choices fit this product.
Geolocation services are the natural fit for a proximity-based marketplace, and a cross-platform framework reaches both app stores from one codebase, which suits a community product that needs broad local reach.
The app's real, listed capabilities.
Shoppers search for products by their geolocation, and the app displays local merchants by food type.
Shoppers order online directly from each merchant's own online store within the marketplace.
Authentication includes social login, streamlining sign-in for shoppers.
Engineering characteristics of the build.
Cross-platform marketplace app delivering one experience to iOS and Android, backed by merchant, catalog, and ordering services.
Famooshed is live on the App Store and Google Play as a geolocation marketplace connecting UK shoppers with local independent food producers, with location-based search and direct ordering from each merchant's store.
A look at the product across screens.
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Common questions about building an app like Famooshed.
Yes. Famooshed aggregates many independent local food producers into one marketplace, with each merchant maintaining its own online store that shoppers order from directly.
Yes. Famooshed uses geolocation to let shoppers search by location and displays local merchants by food type.
Yes. Famooshed is available on both the App Store and Google Play from a cross-platform build.
Yes. Famooshed includes social login alongside its other authentication.
Yes. Famooshed is a local food marketplace built for community-based buying in the UK; we build marketplaces around a defined niche and region.
In Famooshed, shoppers order online directly from each merchant's own online store within the app, so orders are tied to the merchant they shopped from.
Marketplaces typically need both buyer and seller experiences. Book a discovery call and we'll scope the full marketplace for your product.
Book a discovery call and we'll map your merchants, catalog model, and discovery experience before estimating the build.
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