Showroom
Made to order
The one thing on the network that is not about what is near you
A startup, a manufacturer or an MSME opens a storefront and sells into districts no distributor will service. A pump, a solar set, a battery pack, a tool — specified, quoted and built to order, then carried by the same fleet.
How it works
Start to doorstep
- 1
Say what you need
Pick through a maker's catalogue and configure what you want. For anything built to order, the specification is the enquiry.
- 2
The maker quotes it
A priced quote with lines and an expiry, answered by the business rather than generated by us. It converts to an order without anybody re-typing it.
- 3
Paid and verified before it moves
Payment is confirmed server-side, with the gateway's own callback as the authority, so nobody is ever charged for an order that does not exist.
- 4
Carried by the fleet, or by freight
Short enough and the e-rickshaws take it. Beyond that it is priced honestly by weight and distance, rather than as a percentage of the bill that pays ₹4,000 to move one box.
What is different
The part we got wrong first
- An enquiry, not an order — a pack built to order has no price until somebody has read the specification
- The configurator is data, not code: a second startup gets one by describing it, not by waiting for an app release
- Household price and trade terms on the same product, decided by who you are signed in as
- Freight priced by weight and distance, on a vehicle actually able to carry it
How we know
A showroom carries no zone and no block, and that absence is the feature. Every other service here is bound to a market you could walk to, and that boundary is what makes a two-hour delivery possible and keeps the money in the block. Tying a manufacturer in Patna to one block would cap them at the size of a block for no reason anybody could defend — so none of the block machinery applies to them, and that is stated rather than quietly worked around.
For the business
The other side of the transaction
A marketplace that only works for the buyer is a subsidy with a logo. Every service was designed from the seller's constraints first — what they can realistically promise, and what they must not be asked to change.
- ✓A branded page that renders in the app without waiting for a release
- ✓One catalogue with a household face and a trade face
- ✓Enquiries and quotes that become orders without re-keying
- ✓District-level demand built from what households actually asked for
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