A lot of people I know told me that they are using a publicly shared excel sheet in their community to maintain unnecessarily crowd to their nearby shops and to maintain social distance.
Me and one of my friend, who thought this app will really help people who wanted to buy their essentials without going into a crowd, knowing if the store is less crowded before leaving home. We are just trying to do our small part in saving a lot of lives by reducing unnecessary crowd to the store.
About app:
If you are a grocery store or a drug store, you just register yourself with minimum information to manage your own store, set your store location & name, enter max allowed people in your store at the given time. Increase and decrease the current people count at your store counter page by clicking on + or -.
If you are a customer, just search for your location using the search bar, or just allow location from your phone to pick you coordinates, which will list out all the stores that are near you and which are open at the moment, along with the count of people at the store and max allowed count at the given time, this will give you an ability to see if there is a less crowd before you go out to purchase any essentials avoiding the crowd.
The app really works only if you share it with your customers if you are a store owner and with your friendly grocery stores/drug stores if you are a customer, share it, so that both you can maintain the social distance.