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Product Store App

E-commerce app for buying and selling products with image search

Web app Rated 7 Oct 2026Dormant

Link
buy-and-sell-delta.vercel.app
Built by
Exodus | Creative PM

Bloat

76/500

Where it landed on the scale

Bloat
0
Float
300
Moat
400

Summary

A single-day launch of a MERN tutorial-style product store. The posts say the database did not work on the deployed version, and the live page shows only a title with no visible content. There is no sign of payments, accounts, pricing, or any activity in the 640 days since.

Bloat · Not much here works or looks likely to last, yet.

Breakdown

Five measures, 100 points each. Open the receipts under any of them to see the posts and pages behind the points.

Viability

Is there a real problem, someone who would pay, and a market this builder can actually reach?

A generic buy/sell store with no defined user, no pricing and no payment path. It reads as a practice build, and the creator's own post asks for help getting it to work.

12/100

Rubric 0–20No clear problem or user. A toy, a practice clone, or a solution looking for a problem.

Receipts (2)

  1. Describes generic buy/sell and image-price lookup features with no target user, market or way to charge.

    “🚀 Introducing the Product Store App! I’m excited to announce my latest project: Product Store App! 🎉 With this app, you can: ✔️ Search for any product image (electronics, cosmetics, luxury items). ✔️ Paste the image address and determine its price. ✔️ buy or sell products! Tech Stack I Used: Frontend: React + TailwindCSS Backend: Node.js + Express Database: MongoDB Deployment: Vercel Open Sou”

    Post · @Exodus_Tola · 4 Jan 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  2. The live page shows only a title ('Haramaya Marketing.IO') and no pricing, payments or accounts.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · buy-and-sell-delta.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

Moat

What stops someone copying it?

Open source and built on a standard stack, so anyone could rebuild it in a weekend. There is no local integration, data or distribution advantage.

8/100

Rubric 0–20A thin wrapper or a clone that anyone here could rebuild in a weekend.

Receipts (2)

  1. States the project is fully open source and uses a stock React/Express/MongoDB stack.

    “🚀 Introducing the Product Store App! I’m excited to announce my latest project: Product Store App! 🎉 With this app, you can: ✔️ Search for any product image (electronics, cosmetics, luxury items). ✔️ Paste the image address and determine its price. ✔️ buy or sell products! Tech Stack I Used: Frontend: React + TailwindCSS Backend: Node.js + Express Database: MongoDB Deployment: Vercel Open Sou”

    Post · @Exodus_Tola · 4 Jan 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  2. No payments, Amharic content or partnerships are visible on the site.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · buy-and-sell-delta.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

Momentum

Did the updates keep coming?

Shipped on a single day (2025-01-04) with two posts and no activity in the 640 days since, so momentum is effectively nil.

0/100

  • Sustained shipping0/60

    Worked on across 0 days.

  • Consistency0/40

    Updates in 1 of 1 month.

  • Quiet

    No update for 640 days — scaled to 20%.

Receipts (2)

  1. Earliest post about it.

    “🚀 Introducing the Product Store App! I’m excited to announce my latest project: Product Store App! 🎉 With this app, you can: ✔️ Search for any product image (electronics, cosmetics, luxury items). ✔️ Paste the image address and determine its price. ✔️ buy or sell products! Tech Stack I Used: Frontend: React + TailwindCSS Backend: Node.js + Express Database: MongoDB Deployment: Vercel Open Sou”

    Post · @Exodus_Tola · 4 Jan 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  2. Most recent post about it.

    “🚀 Need Help with My Deployed App! Hey everyone! I deployed my Product Store App on Vercel, but I’m stuck: my MongoDB database works fine locally but doesn’t respond on Vercel. Here’s what I’ve done so far: 1. Configured everything with a valid setup (Vercel confirmed it). 2. Checked MongoDB Atlas IP whitelist. 3. Added the connection string to Vercel’s environment variables. 4. Reviewed the de”

    Post · @Exodus_Tola · 4 Jan 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

Infrastructure

Does a real, working product exist?

A site is deployed and reachable, but it shows almost no content. The creator reports the database not working in production, and there are no accounts, payments or docs.

42/100

  • It's live20/20

    https://buy-and-sell-delta.vercel.app/ responded when checked.

  • HTTPS5/5

    Served over HTTPS.

  • Real product15/35

    The site is deployed and responds, but the creator says the database does not respond on Vercel and the page shows no usable functionality. That puts it at demo level at best.

  • Own home0/10

    Only on a free subdomain or link-in-bio page.

  • Maintained0/15

    Last sign of shipping 2025-01-04.

  • Operations2/15

    A backend exists in the described stack and a repo is referenced. But there are no docs, no status page, no accounts, and the backend was reported as failing in production. The GitHub snapshot also failed to load.

Receipts (5)

  1. https://buy-and-sell-delta.vercel.app/ responded when checked.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · buy-and-sell-delta.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  2. Creator reports the MongoDB database does not respond once deployed to Vercel.

    “🚀 Need Help with My Deployed App! Hey everyone! I deployed my Product Store App on Vercel, but I’m stuck: my MongoDB database works fine locally but doesn’t respond on Vercel. Here’s what I’ve done so far: 1. Configured everything with a valid setup (Vercel confirmed it). 2. Checked MongoDB Atlas IP whitelist. 3. Added the connection string to Vercel’s environment variables. 4. Reviewed the de”

    Post · @Exodus_Tola · 4 Jan 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  3. The page loads over HTTPS but exposes only a title with no visible content and no accounts.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · buy-and-sell-delta.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  4. Lists a Node/Express/MongoDB backend deployed on Vercel.

    “🚀 Introducing the Product Store App! I’m excited to announce my latest project: Product Store App! 🎉 With this app, you can: ✔️ Search for any product image (electronics, cosmetics, luxury items). ✔️ Paste the image address and determine its price. ✔️ buy or sell products! Tech Stack I Used: Frontend: React + TailwindCSS Backend: Node.js + Express Database: MongoDB Deployment: Vercel Open Sou”

    Post · @Exodus_Tola · 4 Jan 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  5. Crawler found no docs, accounts, status page or store links.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · buy-and-sell-delta.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

Sustainability

Is it being set up to last?

Distribution is a free Vercel subdomain with no payments, pricing, privacy policy or terms. Nothing points to revenue or continued work.

14/100

  • Distribution12/30

    A site on a free subdomain.

  • Payments0/15

    No payment provider found.

  • Pricing0/10

    No pricing found on the site.

  • Revenue0/5

    No customers, prices or revenue are mentioned anywhere.

  • Privacy policy0/7

    No privacy policy found.

  • Terms0/5

    No terms of service found.

  • Support0/8

    No support contact found.

  • Commitment2/20

    There is a Telegram channel, but it looks like the creator's personal channel rather than a project community. There is no roadmap, team or funding, and nothing has been posted for 640 days.

Receipts (4)

  1. A site on a free subdomain.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · buy-and-sell-delta.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)

  2. The announcement makes no mention of customers or income.

    “🚀 Introducing the Product Store App! I’m excited to announce my latest project: Product Store App! 🎉 With this app, you can: ✔️ Search for any product image (electronics, cosmetics, luxury items). ✔️ Paste the image address and determine its price. ✔️ buy or sell products! Tech Stack I Used: Frontend: React + TailwindCSS Backend: Node.js + Express Database: MongoDB Deployment: Vercel Open Sou”

    Post · @Exodus_Tola · 4 Jan 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  3. Says 'stay tuned for more updates', but no follow-up posts exist.

    “🚀 Introducing the Product Store App! I’m excited to announce my latest project: Product Store App! 🎉 With this app, you can: ✔️ Search for any product image (electronics, cosmetics, luxury items). ✔️ Paste the image address and determine its price. ✔️ buy or sell products! Tech Stack I Used: Frontend: React + TailwindCSS Backend: Node.js + Express Database: MongoDB Deployment: Vercel Open Sou”

    Post · @Exodus_Tola · 4 Jan 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  4. Asks for help with deployment and shows no later progress.

    “🚀 Need Help with My Deployed App! Hey everyone! I deployed my Product Store App on Vercel, but I’m stuck: my MongoDB database works fine locally but doesn’t respond on Vercel. Here’s what I’ve done so far: 1. Configured everything with a valid setup (Vercel confirmed it). 2. Checked MongoDB Atlas IP whitelist. 3. Added the connection string to Vercel’s environment variables. 4. Reviewed the de”

    Post · @Exodus_Tola · 4 Jan 2025 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)