SouthBayStreets – Introduction
© 2025 McQuillin & Associates Inc. -- Company Confidential
Guide Ver 0.7 – 2025-03-14 – For South Bay Streets Ver 0.8 – R. McQuillin
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3. WARNING: This guide may be updated often. Avoid using outdated copies. Please note the version number above. A version history is shown at the end of this guide.
Contents
2 Our Need for Resource Efficiency ***
3 Our Need for Privacy (to Own Our Own Data)
4.1 Who is this for (the Audience)?
5 Terms and Abbreviations (General)
6 What is South Bay Streets (“Streets”)?
7 Why Use South Bay Streets (“Streets”)?
7.3 VOTE for your businesses: DesignArtesia and DesignTheGalleria
7.3.1 Foe Prospective Businesses
7.4.1 Parking: Utilization Efficiency
8 The Concept of Goal-Based Purchasing / Rational Purchasing / Automatic Buying
9 The Major Entities / Concepts
10 Create vs. “Clone and Modify”
10.1 Cloning from Sellers and Top Sources
10.2 Cloning from Advisors/Influencers or Friends
10.4 Creating Manually, Cloning your own Entities, or Using AI
11.2 Types of Goals Streets Can Help With
11.3 Managing Goals in Streets
11.3.1 Cloning and Adapting Shared Goals
11.3.2 Creating from ‘Scratch’
12 Defining PROJECTS (Planning)
12.1 A Project = Smart Shopping List
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“The Original Sin of the Internet”.
This document is for (1) ‘stakeholders’ of the Streets application and people who want to know what the app is all about.
This document provides an introduction and deeper dive into the SouthBayStreets application. The first part (Sections 1-7) is an overview, and the second part (Sections 8 and later) is a deeper dive.
There is a glossary at the end of this document, but here are a quick few:
· SouthBayStreets, Streets, and SBS all mean the same thing: this web application.
· Seller, Business, and Merchant all mean the same thing.
· Consumer, Customer mean the same thing.
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TBD, TBP, TBS, $FINISH$, $IMPROVE$ |
To be done, to be provided, to be specified. Oops. This part of the document is incomplete. Something needs to be completed here. |
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SBS, SouthBayStreets, Streets |
An internet application; the subject of this document. SouthBayStreets provides an integrated relationship between clients and sellers to provide “rational purchasing” or “automatic buying” capability. |
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Seller, Business, Merchant |
Sellers can fulfill needs. They sell products and/or services. |
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Client, Consumer, Customer |
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Entities |
The core elements of your database: Goals, Projects, Needs, and Profiles (will be explained) |
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THE CORE ENTITIES: |
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Project |
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Need |
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Profile |
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Picture |
Not really a core element, but pictures are everywhere. You can hang a picture(s) in just about anything, and they are especially useful for describing entities like Prifiles, Needs, and Assets so that they can be properly understood and fulfilled. But even a Goal can use a picture or two, as an inspiration for what you’re trying to achieve. |
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AI |
Artificial Intelligence. |
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Resident |
Generally means someone who lives near a mapped area and/or uses the maps for fulfilling their needs. |
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Visitor |
Generally means someone who doesn’t live near a map they are visiting, but is a ‘tourist’ to the mapped area. |
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McQCorp |
McQuillin & Associates Inc., the company that provides SouthBayStreets. |
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MORE TO COME |
MORE TO COME |
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B2B |
Business-to-business. Companies like business supply stores or wholesalers. |
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Business-to-consumer. Businesses consumers walk in to, like retailers, grocers, salons, restaurants, etc. |
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South Bay Streets (a.k.a. “SBS” or just “Streets”) is a web application that will improve commerce in the South Bay of California. It will do this by linking customers with businesses in ongoing, fulfilling relationships.
In the first release, there are two main components:
1. The commerce Maps. These maps let customers (residents and visitors) explore and understand what’s in their commerce community (malls, shopping centers, streets, etc.)
2. The Planner application, which helps customers to create goals, define projects to complete or maintain their goals, and identify needs: things to purchase (or to do) to complete projects. As a client, the Planner application is your database.
In the first release, these two components aren’t connected. But consumers can use the maps, and they can start planning.
In the next major release, we’ll (1) make the Maps more interactive and (2) connect these two components -- the Maps and the Planner app -- to link customers with the businesses on these maps. So, consumers can form deep relationships that allow the businesses to fulfill needs automatically and efficiently. We call this “Community Commerce” or “Purpose-Driven Commerce,” also known as “Rational Purchasing” or “Automated Buying.”
Is Streets a Social Network? In Streets, clients and sellers can engage with each other, and advisors may act on behalf of either or both. So Streets provides networking between the parties, but it’s all business. In a social network, anybody can connect with anybody. In Streets, you can do that, but most connections will be between clients and businesses. It’s all about getting the products and services you need when you need them at the best prices. It’s not a “Social Network,” it’s a “Commerce Community.”
Also, it’s not about tracking or data analytics or using algorithms to try to figure out what you might want and induce you to buy things, whether you really need them or not. Instead of stalking you, you will actually talk to each other. It’s cooperative. It’s about developing relationships.
The Maps are described in the document called Streets Intro – for Maps.
The Planner app provides a database and a way to define, store, and execute your goals. You can work with any kind of goals in Streets, and if you want to define all kinds of goals and store them in Streets, we encourage you to do that. But Streets provides the most value for goals that require purchases, because we can connect those with sellers.
The Planner app also provides a way to “vote” for businesses you want in your maps (your city or neighborhood). We’re taking this to a higher level. Rather than just say you want another florist or gas station or XYZ store, you define your goals and your projects. You can also define as many needs as practical (things you must buy). Then, we anonymously share this information with merchants: both existing merchants and potential merchants (who might want to move to one of your maps).
So, go ahead and dream big about your goals. And maybe you’ll need to get them fulfilled from some place far away, or maybe you can’t get them filled at all (yet). But maybe we can get the seller you need to move in right down the street!
Note that, from the point of view of a prospective business, the “Design” sites can provide a very valuable perspective. Rather than just learning demographics, income, etc. your prospective customers will actually be telling you what they want to buy. Even further, you can instantly connect to their shopping lists of planned purchases.
We can combine modern parking solutions with the Maps to use existing spaces much more efficiently. For more information, ask the author.
The more maps are used, the less the need for signage. Like burying power lines, reduced signage can beautify an area, as well as reduce merchant costs, electricity use, etc. For more information, ask the author.
In the first phase of Streets, the app allows you to plan your Goals, Projects, and Needs. So let’s go ahead and start doing that. There are benefits to planning alone. But the giant benefit will come when clients can link with sellers to get their needs fulfilled and their goals achieved. More on that later. First let’s get back to basic planning.
The whole concept is:
· STOP buying items one-by-one with casual shopping lists, or just by using your head, or on impulse. You can still buy like that, whenever you want, but stop doing it for everything. Make your life easier and your purchases better!
· START buying items with a plan. This way, you buy items you need, you don’t buy items you don’t need, you save money by planning ahead and buying at the right times, and you don’t have to keep thinking about buying all the time. You just approve or modify automatic purchases that sellers present to you for your review and acceptance.
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The New SBS Way |
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· Decide what you need (somehow)
· Shop in store and on eCommerce sites
· Place items in your cart
· Purchase and receive items |
· Define your goals: personal, professional, family, recreation, hobbies · Sellers offer "projects" (sets of needs) to meet your goals · Copy projects and customize them to meet your needs. · Share your projects with sellers and invite them to fulfill your needs. · Sellers make offers on your needs. · Accept offers to purchase and receive items · Track your "days left" for each item to fulfill at lower prices. |
So, SBS provides a step-by-step process to move from ‘irrational purchasing” to “rational purchasing” or “automatic buying”. It does take some planning and thinking ahead. Sellers will help. You can also get help from other sources, including other members.
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“What”. A Goal is something you’re trying to reach or achieve. If you’ve already achieved it, you may want to sustain it.
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· Add $100k to the value of my home · Get a promotion · Get me to work in DTLA each day |
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“How” A Project is a list of steps or purchases to achieve a goal. |
· Add a room onto my house · Dress me for success at ABC
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A Profile lists and describes all the “properties” of someone or something |
· Me (all my body sizes for clothing) · Me (my interests in reading) · 320 Sycamore Street (everything about my home) · My 2024 Nissan Leaf (for maintenance) · My child (TBS) |
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Something you must acquire to achieve a Goal.
You bundle Needs together under Projects you assign to Goals. |
· 3200 sq ft of drywall · 6 dress shirts
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(COMING SOON) Something acquired to cover a need to achieve a goal. |
· TBP |
Before getting into all the specific entities, you’ll want to know how you build your database.
To build your database, you can add any core entity by either creating it yourself “from scratch” (enter the properties, pictures, etc.) or by cloning an existing entity provided by sellers, advisors, friends, experts, or AI.
From Sellers. Sellers can offer high quality and highly curated entities, like accurate projects, based on their experience and expertise. If you clone entities offered by Sellers, you can be pretty sure they will also offer to fulfill them for you. For example, if a Seller offers a Goal to achieve or a Project to run, you can assume they will be good at fulfilling those needs. In fact, in phase 2, the seller will have ‘first dibs’ at fulfilling the projects you clone from them, but you can always change that.
From the Top List. We will also “curate” the “best of the best” entities for you. Those are the Top Entities (Goals, Projects, Profiles). That usually means they are used by many clients and fulfilled by many sellers. Or maybe they are so exquisitely designed that you just have to see them 😉.
From Advisors/Influencers. Sometimes Advisors may share their entities publicly, to advertise what they can provide and persuade you to link with them. If you are linked to an Advisor, they may offer their own custom-designed entities for you to clone and use.
From Other Clients / Friends. Other clients may share their entities, and your friends (linked clients) may share entities more relevant to you.
When you clone any item, you’ll usually want to modify it for your situation. What’s very common is that you’ll remove extra items. For example, if you clone a Home profile, and the profile has lines to specify dimensions for four bedrooms, and you only have two, you’ll just quickly delete the extra lines. Similarly, many projects will have all kinds of needs that you won’t really have, so just quickly delete the extras.
1. Create them yourself by entering the properties, pictures, etc.
2. Clone your own entity. This can be useful for lots of reasons, such as: you have a project that you run annually (ex: hosting a holiday dinner).
3. Coming soon. You’ll be able to describe your “situation” to an AI system and ask it to create starting entities for you.
So now that we’ve talked about the options for building your database, ;et’s get back to what those main entities are.
Having goals can put you in charge of your life. In the case of Streets, having goals puts you in charge of your purchases, which gives you a lot of control over your money and your consumption and your peace of mind, which goes a long way towards managing your life.
The best Goals are SMART goals. They can be more challenging to write, but the writing process is actually the first step in achieving them. Sometimes you can almost feel like you’re halfway there just by writing the SMART part. SMART goals are supercharged for success.
What are SMART goals? The SMART in SMART goals stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound. Defining these parameters as they pertain to your goal helps ensure that your objectives are attainable within a certain time frame.
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In order for a goal to be effective, it needs to be specific. A specific goal answers questions like: • What needs to be accomplished? •Who’s responsible for it? •What steps need to be taken to achieve it? |
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Specificity is a solid start, but quantifying your goals (that is, making sure they’re measurable) makes it easier to track progress and know when you’ve reached the finish line. |
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This is the point in the process when you give yourself a serious reality check. Goals should be realistic – not pedestals from which you inevitably tumble. Ask yourself: is your objective something your team can reasonably accomplish? |
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Here’s where you need to think about the big picture. Why are you setting the goal that you’re setting? |
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To properly measure success, you and your team need to be on the same page about when a goal has been reached. What’s your time horizon? When will the team start creating and implementing the tasks they’ve identified? When will they finish? |
Goal Setting is a broad topic that can require deep thought and produce great results. Here are some general sources for Goal Setting:
1. TBP
You may also want to engage with a goal-setting advisor to really supercharge the process.
Life goals are important, and some are outside of the scope of Streets. Streets doesn’t help as much with long-term goals that purely require ‘actions’, such as ‘get a great job in finance’ or ‘stay in excellent health’. Most of the ‘achieving’ of those goals will require your individual effort. However, it can be very helpful to store those goals in Streets anyway. Why? Because even those goals will require some help from others. If you want to ‘Stay in excellent health’ you might have a project (see the next section!) to ‘Run five miles a day’, and then you’ll need shoes, apparel, and maybe energy drinks and ointments 😉.
The Streets app provides a database, screens, and processes for managing your goals. For specifics, see the Streets User Guide. But here’s a general overview of the concepts:
One great way to build your set of Goals is to clone goals that are shared by others: Sellers, Advisors, and Friends. Shared Goals can come from several sources:
1. Our database can provide Top Goals, which are very common goals that we curate for you.
2. Sellers can share lists of goals that they can help you achieve.
3. Advisors who specialize in goal-setting (general or specific goals) can share goals they can help with, or maybe help you create specific goals.
4. Anybody can share their “model” goals, so you can get a goal from pretty much anyone.
You can search for Goals that meet your needs and clone them into your database. Once you have them cloned, you’ll probably want to customize them for your specific situation. Here are … TBS
Boy, you must be very unique and original. That’s truly impressive! But seriously, although you may often find the Goal you want already exists in the shared Goals, there will be times when you are attempting something very uncommon. So you might just have to build it yourself.
Mostly you’ll clone your own goals if you just need to get a variation on a Goal you already have. So Clone that Goal, then Modify it.
New goals, whether cloned or created new, start in Preparing state. That lets you keep track of the goals you’re working on. You can still assign Projects to them (see the next section), but it’s better to use the ‘Activate’ action to set them to Active status, since your progress is easier to track that way.
A Goal is an outcome (the “What”) you are trying to achieve. One you have defined Goals to achieve, you can define Projects to achieve them. A Project is the plan (the “How”) or method you execute to achieve the Goal.
ASIDE: (BTW you don’t really have to be so logical. Streets doesn’t make you define Goals first. You can just create a project and not assign it to a goal, or (better) assign it to the “_Incoming Projects” Goal. If you do that, it can remind you to look at those Projects and assign them to Goals. Or you can just leave it as-is, or hang it on “_Unassigned Projects” instead, like if it’s short and temporary. But then you might want to ask yourself, “Why am I doing this Project, exactly?” 😉)
A Goal can have multiple Projects. A Project is assigned to one Goal.
Realistically, a Project is mainly a way to organize and bundle together a set of Needs. Since Streets is focused on fulfilling your needs for products and services, the “Needs” you assign to projects will be focused on that. But if you “need” all the Needs on a Project to be “covered” or “fulfilled”, you can track the fulfillment status of a Project to see if it needs attention.
A need is something you must acquire (or get done), so a list of needs is -- in reality -- a shopping list. Since a Project is a list of needs, you can think of a project as a shopping list. Except, it’s a smart shopping list in several ways:
1. It can tell you, for each item, when it needs to be fulfilled (how many days it has left until it’s gone, worn out, out of style, etc.).
2. If can tell you when the overall project needs attention (because one of its needs needs attention).
3. For a seller, it combines your goal and profile information, so the seller can really focus in on what you need.
4. (TBD – ADD MORE BENEFITS)
Before talking about the Needs on a Project, let us step back for a minute and talk about Profiles.
Most things you buy have a “subject”: in other words, you are buying them for some “thing”: a person, a residence (home, apartment, business), a vehicle, a hobby, a creation, etc. So, to purchase the correct size/type/model items, you should specify what they are. This is what the Profile is: a specification of sizes, measurements, properties, types, etc. for some subject (a person, domicile, vehicle, hobby, etc.).
For a common subject, there are already standard profile templates. There are some standard profiles available. You can see these when you select “Top models” when adding a shared profile:
1. Body measurements – adult female
2. Body measurements – adult male
3. Body measurements – juvenile male
4. Body measurements – juvenile female
5. Home measurements … TBD 1BR, 2BR, 3BR, 4BR, 5BR, 6BR (or just delete the ones you don’t need)
6. Home specification …
7. Vehicle and status …
Just like any shared model entity, once you clone a profile you can modify its properties to fit your specific situation.
You can use a Profile on multiple Projects. A Project has one Profile associated with it.
Now let us get back to Needs.
A Project can have one or more Needs. A Need is something you must buy or do, or more generally, it must be acquired (bought, rented, leased, borrowed, etc.) or performed (by you, by someone else, maybe as a purchased service).
Although you can cover all of these situations with Needs, Needs in Streets are mostly there to handle things that must be bought from some provider. That’s where the most value is in a Streets Need: getting the best purchase to fulfill it.
Days Left is a powerful concept for planning, bundling, and making your purchases to achieve the lowest costs and highest efficiencies.
You add Needs to a Project. Each Need will have a “Days Left”. The Days Left tells how many days until the Need must be fulfilled again because it runs out, wears out, expires, goes out of fashion/style, or is just no longer usable or available for whatever reason. A Need must usually be refilled/covered/fulfilled before its Days Left goes to zero.
Days Left provides significant benefits to sellers that they can plan ahead. If you can commiut to a seller, maybe even informally, this lets the seller bundle and plan their purchases days, weeks, even months and years ahead. And it lets them efficiently manage their inventory since it can pass through quickly.
Managing Days Left is good for you, the client, for the seller, for the city and community, and even the planet!
Soon we will record Assets. Assets are the things you acquire (usually products, sometimes services) to cover your needs.
Remember that: Assets cover Needs. Again, the Project is a Smart Shopping List, and each Need on the Project is something you need to buy. So the Asset is the thing you buy to check the item off your shopping list (until it must be fulfilled again).
Since every Asset comes with a Quantity and Expiration Date, you can determine how many Days Left you have for the Need based on the Assets that are covering it.
$FINISH$: These are just a few examples, much more to be provided.
As a client, SBS will save you money and make your life easier by elevating and simplifying your purchasing processes.
· You can get bids on your projects and select the best bid.
· For example, design an event (party, etc.) and get bids to handle the whole event.
As a seller, SBS will reduce your costs and increase sales and profits.
As an advisor, CONTINUE
See our “official” Privacy Policy here.
Your privacy is very important to us. We mean it. We’re not just saying that like most sites do.
Hidden sharing of user data has been called “The Original Sin of the Internet”. Virtually all sites do it.
We will not track or share data.
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