A voice assistant for grocery ordering.
दो किलो आटा, एक लीटर दूध, और थोड़ी चीनी।
Aata, two kilos. Doodh, one litre. Cheeni, one kilo. That comes to one hundred sixty-eight rupees. Should I place the order?
हाँ।
Order placed. Cash on delivery.
An example exchange. Nothing is ordered until it has been read back and confirmed out loud.
Speak your grocery list in Hindi or English, in your own words. Hello Beta finds the items, reads the basket and the total back to you, and places the order after you say yes. Payment is cash on delivery.
Who it is for
People who find shopping apps difficult to use. There is no list to scroll, no search box to type into, and no payment screen. The only interface is the conversation.
How it works
You speak. Say what you need the way you would say it to a person, in Hindi or in English. You do not have to name products the way a catalogue names them.
It reads the basket back. Every item, every quantity, and the total, out loud, before anything is ordered.
You confirm out loud. Nothing is ordered until you say yes. Orders are cash on delivery, so no card or payment detail is ever entered or stored.
A family member can help. A companion app lets one family member link the household account and see completed orders. They do not need to place the order or be present for it.
Where the project is today
Hello Beta runs on a single Android phone, in one household, against a local grocery catalogue used for development.
There is no live connection to any grocery service yet. The product is not open for signups and has no customers.
The current work is connecting it to a real grocery catalogue so the orders it places are real orders.
Handling of data
Hello Beta stores no payment details, because it never takes any. Delivery addresses and basket contents are read at the time an order is placed and are not kept afterward.
Access tokens for a linked account are stored per household in a Postgres database behind row-level security, reachable only by a server-side service role. The key shipped inside the app binaries cannot read them.
The full detail is in the privacy policy, and there is a longer technical note on security.
Contact
Hello Beta is built and operated by Mohit Shukla in Hyderabad, India.