December 12, 2024 — To make a reservation at a fancy restaurant, you don’t jog through the French Quarter to see who’s got an available spot. You use OpenTable or Resy.
The same goes for booking a ride, buying a movie ticket or shopping for a used car. There’s a website or mobile app for that.
Back in 2013, though, there wasn’t an online option to help shoppers see exactly what was in stock at local stores. And that was the problem that New Orleans business partners Mike Massey, Blake Haney and Ben Hirsch set out to solve that year when they founded the tech startup Locally.