🧵 Paithani Weaver Marketplace

A Multilingual Digital Marketplace for Rural Artisans

📌 Project Overview

Paithani Weaver Marketplace is a full-stack mobile application designed to empower Paithani handloom weavers from Yeola, Maharashtra by providing a direct-to-buyer digital marketplace combined with data-driven pricing, bidding, and shared logistics.

The platform eliminates middlemen, improves profit transparency, and reduces logistics costs through Groupify transport pooling, while remaining accessible to rural users via a multilingual and simple UI.

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🎯 Problem Statement

Traditional Paithani weavers face:

• Dependency on middlemen for sales and pricing
• No real-time market or demand insights
• High logistics and transportation costs
• Limited digital literacy and language barriers

Existing government schemes and e-commerce platforms address these issues partially but lack integration, analytics, and accessibility.

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💡 Solution Summary

This project provides an integrated digital ecosystem that connects:

• 🧑‍🎨 Sellers (Weavers) – list sarees, track trends, join shared transport
• 🛒 Buyers – browse products and place competitive bids
• 🚚 Transporters – manage pooled delivery routes

All within a single mobile application.

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🚀 Key Features

🔐 Role-Based Access

• Seller
• Buyer
• Transporter

🧵 Seller Module

• Upload Paithani sarees with images and making cost
• Auto-calculated base price (making cost + profit margin)
• Market trend & price comparison dashboard
• Sales and bidding analytics
• Community connect (WhatsApp groups)
• Group transport creation & joining (Groupify)

🛒 Buyer Module

• Browse verified sellers and sarees
• Place bids on products
• View real-time highest bid updates
• Access seller profiles

🚚 Transporter Module

• View delivery routes
• Manage shared logistics bookings
• Reduce transport cost through pooled deliveries

📊 Smart Pricing & Analytics

• Fixed-price + bidding model
• Market trend insights
• Demand-based decision support

🌍 Accessibility

• Multilingual UI: Marathi | Hindi | English
• Mobile-first design for low digital literacy users

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🏗️ System Architecture

Flutter Mobile App
        ↓ REST APIs
Node.js (Express Backend)
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MySQL Database

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Frontend

• Flutter 3
• Dart
• Material UI
• Android-first design

Backend

• Node.js
• Express.js
• RESTful APIs
• Multer (image uploads)

Database

• MySQL
• Normalized relational schema
• Foreign keys & constraints

Tools

• VS Code
• MySQL Workbench
• Postman

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🗂️ Database Schema (Core Tables)

• users – seller, buyer, transporter accounts
• products – saree details & pricing
• bids – bidding records
• transport_groups – shared delivery routes
• group_members – users in a transport group
• transport_bookings – logistics bookings
• market – demo market trend data

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🔄 Application Workflow

1. User registers & logs in (role-based)
2. Seller uploads saree → base price auto-calculated
3. Buyer browses products & places bids
4. Highest bid updates dynamically
5. Sellers create or join shared transport groups
6. Transport cost is split among group members

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⚠️ Current Limitations

• No payment gateway integration
• Passwords not yet encrypted
• No real-time notifications
• Map-based tracking not implemented

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🔮 Future Scope

• Payment gateway & escrow system
• Password hashing & security improvements
• Push notifications
• Live shipment tracking
• AI-based demand forecasting
• Offline-first support for low connectivity areas

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🌱 Social & Technical Impact

• Reduces middlemen dependency

• Increases artisan income stability

• Encourages data-driven production

• Preserves traditional handloom culture

• Demonstrates real-world application of:

  • DBMS
  • REST APIs
  • Full-stack development

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👨‍💻 Developer

Indresh Suresh Second Year – Computer Engineering (SE) Academic Year: 2025–26

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