We self isolated really early due to a possible COVID scare, so for months now we’ve been using a local green grocer who has always done free delivery over $40. Early on it was phone orders only, payment details read out over the phone. After a while they moved to email. Now I’ve noticed a Shopify instance. It’s been fascinating watching the digital transformation step by step.

Problem is its still a black box as to when it’s coming. I emailed Friday morning and they might do a delivery run around 12pm, only they didn’t. Nor Saturday. Usually the only warning I get is a push notification my card has been charged and some time in the next 15min-3 hours it might show up.

This isn’t about Uber Eats or Deliveroo, this is about tiny operations in hyper local environments. COVID has brought a lot of companies kicking and screaming into the digital age, so I hope apps like these capitalise and stick around. Impeccable timing!

We at https://www.questtag.com/ offer a one stop solution for people to start their own delivery services. Particularly during this pandemic we are trying to help restaurants self-deliver. So if you know a restaurant owner that can utilize our software please mention about us.

Here is the Nokia maps solution right? Is popular with some people I know

It was previously (before that it was Navteq, Nokia bought it in 2007 and made it Here).

A consortium of german automakers bought it a few years ago.

Oh I thought it's going to be about your birth plan

So we can use this to build a web app for the local farmers to set up a delivery service? I live in New York. USA.

Hi Questtag cofounder here. I would be more than happy to help you set something up.

The problem is discovery, since every consumer is already using apps like Uber eats.

Depends where you live. Here in rural UK Uber etc. aren’t present so local shops and pubs are doing a good trade in takeaways and supplying meat/groceries so this would be useful for them

It looks like this could be used by any industry, example a hardware store or toy store. While listening to a podcast, I heard about a toy store that was doing more business now than before COVID and self-isolation.

> I heard about a toy store that was doing more business now than before COVID

One plausible explanation: parents desperately needing to keep kids entertained at home so they can work.

Most likely it’s multiple causes, but that’s one of several that comes to mind.

Yeah, you're gonna need to find it on the business's own website, "Joe's Produce delivers with YandApp" or whatever.