Case Study - Empowering Local Shopping with Nearst

Discover our collaboration with Nearst, a mission-driven platform dedicated to bringing more people into local stores. A pivotal role was played in collecting and presenting store inventory online, making it accessible to customers and enabling them to shop locally.

Client
Nearst
Year
Services
Scale-up CTO, API Development, Cloud Development & DevOps

Overview

The partnership with Nearst revolved around a shared commitment to empowering local businesses and encouraging local shopping. Nearst's mission to bring more people into local stores required a technological solution to collect and present store inventory online.

Contributions included:

  • Inventory Data Integration: A system was developed that seamlessly integrated with local stores to collect real-time quantity and price information of their inventory.

  • Infinite Stock Ingestion: A groundbreaking system was engineered to make the ingestion of stock practically infinite, ensuring that Nearst's platform could handle an extensive range of products from local businesses.

  • Local Commerce Support: Ongoing support and technical expertise were provided to ensure the platform's efficiency and effectiveness in promoting local commerce.

What We Did

  • Inventory Data Integration
  • Infinite Stock Ingestion
  • Local Commerce Support

During a crucial period when re-architecting our platform at NearSt, the boldness and big picture thinking really helped set a solid foundation we could build from. It was a pleasure to work alongside such genuinely awesome and fun people.

Nick Brackenbury
Nick Brackenbury
CEO of NearSt
Countless
Local Businesses Supported
Stock Ingestion
Infinite
Significant
Community Impact

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