u/Gud_Boye1

I have a small side-project idea based on a problem I keep having at my local farmers market in Duvall, WA.

There are a few vendors I buy from regularly, but I never know whether they’ll be at Duvall that week, at another nearby market, or not vending at all. I usually have to hunt through Instagram or message them.

I’m considering a simple, vendor-controlled schedule:

- Vendors list where they’ll be selling each week

- Customers follow their favorite vendors

- Customers can see upcoming markets, times, and cancellations

It would not be creepy live tracking, a delivery app, or a full marketplace—just a public “find this vendor this week” tool.

My first version would be tiny: one local market area, a handful of vendors, and simple weekly schedule updates.

Would you use something like this as a market customer or vendor? What would make it worth using instead of just checking Instagram?

I’m validating a local-market idea and would like direct pushback.

Customer problem:

At my local farmers market, I have a few vendors I buy from regularly. I never know whether they’ll be there that week, at a nearby town’s market, or absent entirely. Their schedules are usually scattered across Instagram, websites, and market pages.

Idea:

An opt-in, vendor-controlled schedule where vendors confirm their weekly market attendance. Customers follow favorite vendors and see where to find them, including cancellations and changes.

This is not live tracking, a delivery marketplace, or an inventory app. It is basically a simple “where will this vendor be this week?” layer for farmers markets and pop-ups.

The assumptions I need tested:

1. Customers care enough to use a dedicated schedule instead of Instagram.

2. Vendors would update it consistently.

3. Repeat customers are valuable enough that vendors would see a benefit.

4. Starting with one local market/region could work before trying to cover every market.

What am I missing? Which assumption is most likely to fail?

I’m trying to validate an idea based on a customer problem I have at farmers markets.

There are growers/vendors I buy from regularly, but I often don’t know whether they’ll be at my local market that week or at another nearby market. Unless I see an Instagram update at the right time, I miss them.

The idea is a simple opt-in schedule where farms list the markets they’ll attend each week. Customers could follow a farm and quickly see where to buy from them, including weather cancellations or schedule changes.

It would be vendor-controlled—not live tracking, not an inventory system, and not a marketplace. The goal is simply to help returning customers find the farms they already support.

For organic growers who sell direct:

Would you use something like this? Would customers finding you more reliably be worth the small effort of updating a schedule? What would make it useful enough to replace—or work alongside—Instagram?

I’m a customer at a farmers market in Duvall, WA. There are a few growers/vendors I buy from regularly, but I often don’t know whether they’ll be at Duvall that week or selling at a nearby town’s market instead.

Unless I happen to catch an Instagram post or message them directly, I just miss them.

I’m wondering whether a simple vendor-controlled schedule would be useful: a grower could confirm the markets they’ll attend each week, and customers could follow a farm/vendor and see where they’ll be that week—including cancellations or last-minute changes.

It would not be live location tracking or a complicated inventory app—just a public “where can customers find us this week?” tool that vendors control.

For people who sell at multiple markets:

- Would you actually keep something like this updated?

- Would it bring enough repeat customers to be worth the extra step?

- What would make it feel useful instead of like another admin chore?

- Is Instagram + your own website already enough?

No app built yet—I’m trying to understand whether this solves a real vendor problem as well as a customer problem.

Hey guys, would any farmers/ small food producers enjoy some kind of app that would allow customers to find you at farmers markets?

I was thinking about an app idea because of a problem I have at my local farmers market in duvall WA where there are a specific few vendors who i buy from but I never really know if they are at my farmers market or a surrounding town's farmers market. I'd like some kind of way to non creepily track them down and I think it would be really useful to have some kind of shared app for that.

Anyways I'm really open to ideas and thoughts

Hey guys, would any farmers/ small food producers enjoy some kind of app that would allow customers to find you at farmers markets?

I was thinking about an app idea because of a problem I have at my local farmers market in duvall WA where there are a specific few vendors who i buy from but I never really know if they are at my farmers market or a surrounding town's farmers market. I'd like some kind of way to non creepily track them down and I think it would be really useful to have some kind of shared app for that.

Anyways I'm really open to ideas and thoughts

Hey guys, i made a Roblox browser extension called BloxPilot and im trying to figure out which games it actually helps.

I originally made it because a Roblox asym kept putting me into Singaporean servers while i am in US West. It compares public servers by region, distance, estimated ping, player count, and some other server info. It also has a server map, Join Best, Quick Play, and past server history. I mainly play joma and die of death.

It does not fix Roblox lag or game-side hitboxes, and it does not modify any game. It just tries to make server picking less random.

For people who play Roblox asym games, would this actually be useful? Does server choice make enough of a difference in chase and hitbox games to be worth using something like this?

Im mainly looking for honest feedback, so i left the download links out unless somebody actually wants to try it.

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