Use cases

Local business directory app

Businesses by category and neighbourhood, featured listings paid for by the owner, coupons, a map and a page of its own for each business.

A local directory is a media business: the town browses for free and the one who pays is the shop owner who wants to show up first. That needs two things a phone list does not have. The first is a featured listing that works as a plan with an expiry date, putting the business at the top of its category while it is paid and taking it off on its own when it lapses. The second is the advertiser seeing what they got: how many people opened their page, tapped the phone number and grabbed the coupon. That number is what renews the listing next month.

People reach this page looking for

  • local business directory app
  • how to start an online business directory
  • city guide app with featured listings
  • local directory with discount coupons

What gets built

Four things you could have working this week

Not a feature list. These are the apps people actually describe, and what the platform hands back when they do.

01

A business with a category, opening hours and its own page

Name, logo, category, neighbourhood, address, phone, WhatsApp, hours per day and a gallery. Each business gets a public page built to show up when someone searches its name.

02

Paid featured listings that expire

Basic, featured and top-of-category plans, billed as a subscription. When the payment stops, the listing drops back to the regular position without anyone touching it.

03

Coupons the business publishes

A discount with an expiry date and a usage limit, redeemed by code at the counter. The owner sees how many were claimed and how many were used.

04

A report for the advertiser

Page visits and taps on phone, WhatsApp and directions, month by month. It is the number you show when selling the renewal.

Included

The parts nobody wants to build twice

Database, login, payments and publishing are part of the platform, not a list of services you go and wire up afterwards.

A real database, not a form dump

Every screen reads and writes models you can open, query and export. The data is a database of yours from the first minute, not a spreadsheet the app pretends to read.

Login for your own users

Email, magic link and Google sign-in, with roles and per-record ownership enforced by Postgres itself. A badly written screen cannot become a leak, because the database answers empty.

Payments that land in your account

Stripe, Pagar.me and Mercado Pago connect once. Card, Pix, boleto and subscriptions, with the card fields rendered by a hosted vault your app never touches.

Web, installable, and in the stores

One project published three ways: your own domain, an icon on the phone straight from the browser, and a signed binary submitted under your own store account.

Found in search, and by the models

Titles, metadata, sitemap, structured data and social images are generated with the app. Pages get found instead of only being linked.

React code you can take with you

Real React, edited line by line or by clicking the element on screen, exported as a ZIP or pushed to your GitHub. No lock-in you have to negotiate your way out of.

How it works

From a paragraph to a published app

Three steps, and the second one is the one people do not believe until they watch it.

Describe it in plain language

Say what the app does and what it has to remember. No diagram, no schema, no naming a single framework.

Watch it get built

Screens, data models, login and payments appear while you read. Anything you do not like, you say so and it changes.

Publish, then keep changing it

Live on your domain in seconds, with version history behind you. Tuesday's conversation is Tuesday's release.

Start here

A prompt you can paste right now

This is a complete first message, not a slogan. Paste it, change the nouns to yours, and you have an app to react to instead of a blank page.

Build a local business directory for a town. Businesses with name, logo, category and subcategory, neighbourhood, address with a map location, phone, WhatsApp, website, Instagram, opening hours per weekday, a photo gallery and a description; a public search by name, category and neighbourhood, with an open now filter, and each business with its own page built for search engines; basic, featured and top-of-category listing plans, billed as a monthly card subscription, where a featured business shows first in its category while the plan is paid and drops back to the regular position when it expires; a business owner signs in to their own account, edits only their own business and publishes coupons with an expiry date and a usage limit; visitors save favourite businesses and redeem coupons with a code the owner confirms; each page records visits and taps on phone, WhatsApp and directions, and the owner sees those numbers for the month; a map with the businesses in the chosen category; and an admin dashboard only I can see, with businesses per plan, revenue per month, listings expiring in the next seven days and the most searched categories.

Ready to start from

Templates in this category

A template is a working app with data already in it. Open one, make it yours, publish it under your own account.

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Questions

Frequently asked questions

By subscription, by card through Stripe, Pagar.me or Mercado Pago connected to your account, and the money goes straight to you. The plan is a field on the business record with an expiry date, so the listing leaves the top when billing stops, without you checking a spreadsheet at the start of every month.

Describe it. See it running. Publish it to the store.

Free to start, no credit card. You subscribe when you want your own domain without the badge or your app in the stores, and on the Builder plan you take the code with you if you ever want to.

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