Most people pick a shop idea first and a location second. That is backwards, and it is why so many small businesses close in the first two years. HelloShop starts with the place.
Drop a pin anywhere. HelloShop reads what is already trading around it, who lives there, and what nobody is selling yet.
Every business already operating in your radius, plotted on the map and grouped by category. You can see at a glance whether you would be opening the ninth salon on a street that already has eight.
Total nearby competition, average distance, and the categories that are genuinely underserved — flagged the moment you land on a location, before you have typed anything.
Colour-coded zones layer schools, colleges, IT offices and residential blocks over the map, so you can tell a dead corner from a live one. Top-ranked spots are marked right there on the map.
A tea stall next to a college is a different proposition from the same stall in a quiet lane. The ranking reflects that.
Set your investment budget and instantly see which of 77 shop ideas make sense for this exact location. Anything above your ceiling can be hidden entirely.
Every idea scored and ordered by opportunity, each showing its live competitor count and how far the nearest one sits. You know exactly where to look first.
Every idea breaks its score into opportunity, budget fit, market, competition and local fit — as bars you can read in a second. No black box, and no single number hiding a weak signal.
Ask the AI advisor about competition, opportunity and demand for your budget, and get an answer grounded in the scan you just ran — including what it cannot see and what you must verify on the ground.
From a concept layout to a one-page plan you can hand to a landlord or a loan officer.
Choose your floors, entrance, windows and size, and get a concept layout tailored to that business type — bays and workbenches for a repair shop, display walls and trial rooms for retail.
Rent and staff are modelled as real fixed monthly costs, from the floor area your shop needs and local land values — not as a share of sales. So the projection can show you a loss when the numbers do not work, which is the entire point of running one before you commit.
HelloShop gives you estimates, not predictions. Revenue, profit, break-even, ROI and rent figures are produced by models from category benchmarks and third-party map data. They are not a forecast of what your business will earn, and not a guarantee that it will be profitable.
The app tells you which numbers are measured and which are modelled, and shows a confidence level on the ones that are uncertain. It cannot see the rent you will negotiate, the road frontage, or how good you are at running a shop.
Use it to decide which places are worth visiting — then go and visit them.
Free to scan your first area. No card required.
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