Concept · built with AI tools

Moms Kitchen — Home Snacks Shop App WhatsApp-ready store and a simple owner app for Mom

A small hybrid shop for a home snacks business (5–10 products): a customer web store opened from a WhatsApp link, and an owner app (Android + web) designed for a mid-50s, low-tech home cook. One Expo / React Native codebase, UPI payments, and a free Supabase backend, with a demo mode that runs with no backend at all.

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Moms Kitchen — Home Snacks Shop App: cover screen
Status
Concept · built with AI tools
Type
Web app
Category
eCommerce
Version
0.1
Built with
Expo SDK 58 / Expo Router, React Native 0.88 + react-native-web, Supabase …

This is a self-initiated concept, designed and built by Srini with AI tools. It is not a real company or client project.

01The problem

Home cooks in India selling snacks and pickles usually take orders over WhatsApp chats and track stock, payments and profit in their heads or a notebook. Off-the-shelf eCommerce tools are too complex and costly for them. The goal was a shop a family helper can set up once, and that Mom can run daily with big buttons, her own language and one tap per order.

02Who it is for

Home food businesses in India (snacks, pickles, sweets) run by non-technical owners, plus their customers ordering from a WhatsApp link.

03Features

  • Customer store: product grid with veg mark, weight, price; cart with +/− and delivery rules
  • Checkout with pickup or delivery, minimum order and free-delivery threshold
  • Pay by UPI: QR for the exact amount + ‘Open UPI app’, customer enters UTR reference
  • Order tracking by order number + phone
  • Owner Orders board: New → Paid → Packed → Delivered (+ Cancelled), one big button per step, tap to call / WhatsApp
  • Stock auto-reduces on Paid and restores on Cancel; low-stock warnings
  • Products with photo, pack size, stock and an ‘available today’ switch
  • Reports: today/week/month/custom sales, best seller, stock left, expenses and profit
  • Quick expenses entry
  • English, Hindi and Telugu throughout
  • Shop settings: UPI ID, FSSAI number, delivery options, open/closed toggle, share link + QR
  • Demo mode with sample snacks; Supabase backend with row-level security when configured

04Pages & screens

  • Store (product grid)
  • Cart & checkout
  • Pay by UPI
  • Order confirmation
  • Track order
  • Owner login (OTP)
  • Owner: Orders
  • Owner: Products / product editor
  • Owner: Reports
  • Owner: Expenses
  • Owner: Settings

05Stack

Expo SDK 58 / Expo Router
React Native 0.88 + react-native-web
Supabase (Postgres, OTP auth, Storage, Realtime, RLS)
AsyncStorage/localStorage demo data layer
EAS builds for Android APK
Static web export

06How I built it with AI

The agreed requirements spec (v1.0, 31 Oct 2026) was written around a real situation: a home cook (‘Mom’, mid-50s, low tech skill) and a family helper. The spec fixed the hard constraints up front — large text (min 18pt), max 4 bottom tabs, UPI with UTR entry, FSSAI number on the store, demo mode when backend keys are missing — and an AI coding tool built the Expo app, the Supabase migration with row-level security, and a two-part setup and user guide (Part A for the helper, Part B for Mom). Alongside it sits a companion guide, ‘Start Selling Your Home-Made Food Online’, walks home businesses through FSSAI registration, UPI, WhatsApp Business, packaging, records and tax basics (rules checked October 2026).

07Design highlights

Highlight 01

Designed for a low-tech owner: 18pt+ text, big buttons with icons and words, only four tabs

Highlight 02

One codebase, two faces: owner app on Android, customer store on the web

Highlight 03

UPI-first payments with no gateway fees; the UTR reference shows on the owner's order card for verification

Highlight 04

Colour-blocked product tiles with emoji fallbacks so the store looks complete before real photos exist

Highlight 05

Server-side re-pricing in place_order() so the public store can't tamper with totals