I Built a Free AI Business Manager for Street Vendors in Hindi & English

How I Built a Bilingual AI-Powered Business Manager for Street Vendors in Jamshedpur The Problem Walk through any street in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, and you'll find hundreds of small shop owners and hawkers running their entire business from memory — stock levels, daily sales, employee wages, profit margins. They have no tools. Notebooks get lost. Mental math fails. And at the end of the day, most don't even know if they made a profit. These vendors are not tech-illiterate. They have smartphones. They use WhatsApp. But every existing business app is either too complex, too expensive, or only available in English. I wanted to solve that. The Solution — Dukaan Manager Dukaan Manager is a free, offline-capable Progressive Web App (PWA) and Android app built for small shop owners and street vendors in India. It runs entirely in the browser — no server, no subscription, no data charges beyond the initial load. Built using HTML, CSS, JavaScript , and powered by the Gemini 2.0 Flash API , it gives every small vendor access to a smart business advisor in their pocket. What It Does 📦 Stock Management Vendors can add items by name or photo. Each item stores buying price, selling price, and quantity. The app automatically calculates profit margins and flags low-stock items with colour-coded alerts. 💰 Daily Sales Recording Sales are recorded item by item, linked to which employee made the sale. The app auto-fills prices and calculates the total. Unsaved drafts survive accidental page refreshes using sessionStorage. 👥 Employee Tracking Add employees with their role, salary, phone number, and joining date. Mark daily attendance (present/absent) with one tap. Track total sales made by each employee across all time. 📅 Sales History Every saved sale is stored permanently in the browser's localStorage. History is grouped by date, collapsible, and shows daily revenue and profit — clean and simple. 🤖 AI Business Advisor (Gemini-Powered) This is where Google AI comes in. Using the Gemini