The Context: My region produces ~90% of the world's supply of Makhana (Fox Nuts). I see farmers harvesting these seeds from muddy ponds daily, yet they sell them for pennies to aggregators. By the time the product reaches cities, it is 5x the price and often stale.
The Project: I am bootstrapping a direct-to-consumer platform to cut out the middlemen.
The Stack:
Built with Bolt.new (Rapid prototyping in the browser).
Deployed on Vercel.
No Database yet: I built a "WhatsApp-First" checkout flow. I want to handle the first 50 orders personally to verify logistics before automating it.
The "Hard" Tech: We don't use industrial popping machines. We use the traditional wooden mallet (Thaapi) method because it preserves the crunch better. (There is a video of this process on the site).
Happy to answer questions about the tech stack or the supply chain logistics in rural India!
Vikkyv•49m ago
I am a developer living in Barsoi, Bihar (India).
The Context: My region produces ~90% of the world's supply of Makhana (Fox Nuts). I see farmers harvesting these seeds from muddy ponds daily, yet they sell them for pennies to aggregators. By the time the product reaches cities, it is 5x the price and often stale.
The Project: I am bootstrapping a direct-to-consumer platform to cut out the middlemen.
The Stack:
Built with Bolt.new (Rapid prototyping in the browser).
Deployed on Vercel.
No Database yet: I built a "WhatsApp-First" checkout flow. I want to handle the first 50 orders personally to verify logistics before automating it.
The "Hard" Tech: We don't use industrial popping machines. We use the traditional wooden mallet (Thaapi) method because it preserves the crunch better. (There is a video of this process on the site).
Happy to answer questions about the tech stack or the supply chain logistics in rural India!