AvenueX StoreFirst app moving in · avenuex.store
A social marketplace for African markets.
AvenueX is a live store: shoppers discover products from sellers near them, watch shopping stories, chat with stores and shop with an assistant, in Kenyan shillings. It was built before AffinEQ existed, for another platform: a self-hosted Supabase, with real customers, orders and payments.
That is exactly why it is our first test. An app written for another platform shows what we forgot to build far better than an app we wrote ourselves. It is also the app we most want to be good for.
- Imported as a copy on 1 October, without touching the live system. Every table and every user count matches the original.
- Its server code runs on Workers without a rewrite, through our Supabase compatibility layer.
- Restored from backup in a drill, and read back as the project’s own users, in about four seconds.
- Not cut over yet. The copy runs beside the original. Before its writes move, the off-host backup has to exist and be proved.
- Real SMS for sign-in is still to come, and some of its shoppers sign in by phone.