Local Vendor Automation (VendorConnect) is a real-time, location-aware digital platform that connects verified street vendors with nearby customers.
It provides vendors with a live digital presence while enabling customers to discover, track, and pre-book products from trusted vendors in real time.
This project integrates AI-powered automation and a microservices-based backend, while the frontend focuses on delivering a modern, responsive, and user-friendly experience for both vendors and customers.
- 📍 Real-time vendor location tracking & nearby discovery
- 🎨 Clean, responsive UI/UX for vendor and customer dashboards
- 📱 Mobile-first user interface design
- 🧭 Interactive map interface for vendor discovery
- ⚡ High-performance frontend built using React.js & modern UI components
- 🔔 Real-time notifications and intuitive product browsing
To digitally empower street vendors and local businesses by giving them a real-time, location-based digital identity and enabling direct, transparent, and instant connections with customers through an intuitive and easy-to-use digital platform.
As a Frontend & UI/UX Developer, my responsibility was to design and implement the complete user interface and user experience of the platform.
- Designed and developed the entire frontend interface using React.js
- Created responsive and mobile-friendly UI components for vendor and customer modules
- Implemented interactive map-based vendor discovery interface
- Built product browsing, vendor profile, and booking interfaces
- Designed modern UI layouts for dashboards, authentication pages, and product listings
- Improved user experience through structured navigation and optimized UI flow
- Integrated frontend with backend APIs for real-time data and smooth communication
- Ensured consistent UI design across different screen sizes and devices
📌 These improvements helped make the platform easy to use for vendors and customers while ensuring smooth interaction with real-time features.
VendorConnect is a mobile-first, location-aware platform designed to modernize informal street commerce.
- Mark live availability and current location
- List and manage products
- Update stock and pricing in real time
- Receive and manage customer pre-bookings
- Notify nearby customers when arriving at a new location
- Discover verified vendors nearby
- View live vendor locations on a map
- Browse real-time product availability
- Pre-book items before visiting
- Receive instant notifications when vendors arrive nearby
The frontend was designed to ensure that all these interactions happen through a simple, intuitive, and visually appealing interface.
- Live location tracking interface
- Product listing & management dashboard
- Inventory and stock control UI
- Order and pre-booking management panel
- Availability status toggle (Online / Offline)
- Multi-location operation support
- Real-time notifications
- Secure authentication interface
- Nearby vendor discovery interface
- Live vendor location tracking on map
- Product browsing with pricing
- Pre-booking functionality
- Real-time arrival notifications
- Vendor ratings & reviews
- Verified vendor access
- Vendor verification & approval
- Category and product moderation
- User and vendor management
- Platform monitoring
- Analytics & insights
- Security and access control
The platform focuses heavily on clean design and smooth interaction to make the system usable for both customers and street vendors.
- Responsive mobile-first design
- Interactive map-based vendor tracking
- Dynamic product cards and listing UI
- Smooth navigation and page transitions
- Clean dashboard layouts for vendors and admins
- User-friendly authentication and onboarding flow
- Vendors broadcast live location and available products to nearby customers
- Customers pre-book items before visiting a vendor
- Vendors send real-time alerts when moving to a new location
- Customers receive instant notifications with pricing and availability details
- Admin verifies vendors and manages product listings
- Continuous internet and GPS access required
- Vendor onboarding may take time due to verification
- Digital literacy challenges for some vendors
- Battery and location accuracy management on mobile devices
- React.js
- React Native
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- HTML5 & CSS3
- Responsive UI Design
- Java (Spring Boot)
- Spring MVC
- Spring Security
- MySQL
- Redis
- Microservices Architecture
- Spring Cloud Eureka (Service Discovery)
- OpenFeign (Inter-service Communication)
- OCR-based vendor authentication
- Product image classification using transfer learning
- Custom RAG chatbot for vendor/product queries
- Docker
- Git & GitHub
- Postman
- JUnit
- Mockito
- Multilingual UI support for vendors and customers
- Improved mobile UI experience
- Personalized product recommendations
- Enhanced map-based vendor discovery features
- Advanced analytics dashboards
If you want to collaborate or have questions about this project, feel free to connect:
Heramb Chaudhari
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heramb-chaudhari-83a01821a/