About
Main Street, delivered
MomNPops is a local-commerce marketplace built around independent retailers and the few minutes that separate them from their neighbours.
Why we exist
Independent shops hold real, interesting inventory — but it's invisible online. MomNPops puts that inventory in one place, organised the way shoppers actually search.
How discovery works
We start from drive time. Your 9-minute primary area shows the closest shops. Expanding to the 20-minute extended area adds more retailers without pretending they're next door.
How retailers join
A retailer connects their store, then maps their own category names onto the MomNPops taxonomy. Once a mapping is approved, their products become browsable and searchable.
What's simulated in this prototype
This is a clickable prototype. Every flow is complete end to end, but the systems below are represented by realistic demo behaviour rather than live integrations.
| Integration | What it would do | What happens here |
|---|---|---|
| Google Maps simulated | Address lookup and drive-time trade areas | Addresses are accepted as typed and the 9/20-minute geometry is schematic. No mapping API is called. |
| Stripe simulated | Payments, refunds and retailer payouts | Card details are prefilled test values. Nothing is charged, captured or paid out. |
| Shopify simulated | Retailer catalog and inventory sync | Store connection, collection import and inventory updates are scripted demo states. |
| Shipday simulated | Local delivery dispatch and driver tracking | Driver assignment and delivery statuses are advanced manually in the retailer and admin consoles. |
| Email / SMS / push simulated | Order and delivery notifications | Messages are written to the in-app notification lists instead of being sent. |
Demo data
Retailers, products, orders, reviews and drive times are fictional and set in the Greater Boston area. The six categories shown are representative demo data — the full MomNPops master taxonomy will replace them when supplied.