Traditional ecommerce organizes catalogues. BiNearby organizes local supply.
Almost everything you need is already being sold within a few kilometres of you. What has been missing is a way to see it.
A catalogue tells you what exists. Local supply tells you what you can get.
| Catalogue commerce | BiNearby | |
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| What gets organised | Products in a catalogue | Supply around you: goods, services, food, skills |
| The question it answers | What exists? | Who has it, near me, now? |
| What you trust | The platform or the brand | The seller, by their own record |
| How it reaches you | Shipped from a warehouse | Pickup, delivery or a visit, often today |
| Who can sell | Businesses with catalogues and logistics | Any nearby seller, from a stall to a wholesaler |
Traditional search tells you where information exists.
BiNearby aims to help determine where something can actually be obtained.
The second question needs more than a page of links. It depends on who is near you, what they have today, whether they can be trusted and how the item reaches you.
A local economic operating layer.
A marketplace is the first thing you see. Underneath it is infrastructure a local economy can run on: knowing where supply is, who can be trusted, what is being asked for, and how it moves.
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Discovery
Knowing what supply exists around any given point, and what is available now.
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Trust
A portable record for every local seller, earned from real transactions.
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Requests
A way for demand to announce itself, so supply can respond.
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Fulfilment
Pickup, delivery and on-site service, coordinated across a neighbourhood.
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Business supply
Recurring procurement between local businesses and the suppliers near them.
Four principles
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Local first
A good option nearby is usually more useful than a better one far away, so distance is part of how results are ranked.
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Availability over listings
A listing only says something was for sale at some point. We try to establish whether you can get it now.
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Trust is earned
Sellers earn trust through verification and completed orders. It cannot be bought.
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Sellers as they are
A seller needs a phone and something to sell. A website, a registered company or a stock system is optional.
The marketplace we are building
BiNearby is in development. This website shows the product as it is designed: the search, the map, the seller records and the request system are demonstrations running on sample data.
You will not find user counts or transaction figures on this site, because the marketplace has not opened.
If BiNearby would be useful to you as a buyer, a seller or a partner, tell us where you are.
Your city already has what you need.
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