# 0 ratings, reached #10 on Mexico's Shopping Top Grossing: a local marketplace app for a Mennonite colony, where the real traction is on the seller side · Mobile app

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> It didn't really take off: its chart position comes from one or two in-app purchases of 110 to 440 dollars, and that chart has a very low bar. What did take off is the merchant side: the developer is a software company tied to the local Mennonite community, and brought in customers and farm-equipment dealers in bulk.

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Campo Menonita · Giovanni Ramuldo Schmitt Banman

# 0 ratings, reached #10 on Mexico's Shopping Top Grossing: a local marketplace app for a Mennonite colony, where the real traction is on the seller side

**What it is** A local marketplace for a Mennonite colony in Chihuahua, Mexico, selling farm equipment, pickups, real estate, and homemade food. Sellers can run their own brand subsites.

**Why it's climbing** It isn't really taking off: the Top Grossing rank comes from a handful of in-app purchases of $110 to $440, and that chart has a very low bar. What's actually working is the seller side. The developer is a local software company run by a Mennonite family, and they brought customers and equipment dealers in as a group.

**C** **How you could follow it** You can't copy it directly; the moat is the developer's local relationships. What you can learn is the approach: if you have seller relationships in a closed community or niche industry, sell sellers a "website + inventory page" SaaS first, let subscriptions pay the bills, then aggregate all the sellers into a vertical marketplace.

Grade C: it's built on the developer's seller relationships inside a community, which followers can't reproduce. The consumer side hasn't broken out (0 ratings, 10+ Play downloads), and there's no evidence the money is big. The "sell SaaS to sellers first, then aggregate into a marketplace" approach is worth studying. Few people know about it yet

Data (updated daily) · launched 2026-08-17 · Mexico score 0 · 11-08 charted in 1 stores

iOS · best category chart rank · by store

Data 2026-10-31 → 2026-11-08 (9 days, 9 observations). Lower rank is higher; gaps mean it wasn't charted that day

iOS · Ratings count · Mexico

Data 2026-10-31 → 2026-11-08 (9 days, 9 observations). Apple doesn't publish download counts; rating growth is a proxy for downloads.

Campo Menonita is a local classifieds platform for the Mennonite community in Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, Mexico, selling tractors, pickups, factories, and homemade cheese. In Oct 31 it ranked #10 in Mexico's App Store Shopping Top Grossing chart, with zero iOS ratings and only 10+ Google Play downloads. That rank came from a few high-priced in-app purchases on a very low-bar chart, so it doesn't show the app has taken off. What it has actually done is on the seller side: a local software company used family and business ties to bring in about 40 Mennonite equipment dealers, real estate agents, and car dealers, some as far away as Manitoba, Canada. Below is how it did that and whether you can copy it.

### A pickup, a five-star review

On campomenonita.com, the developer's own company, Grupo Schmitt, has a seller page: "software, business management and digital solutions for companies in Chihuahua." As of Nov 6, the page had 3 listings in total, 2 active, and 1 sold. The only buyer review is five stars, one line in Spanish:

> Muy buena camioneta que compré de él. (Very good pickup I bought from him.)

A software company selling a pickup on its own marketplace shows what Campo Menonita is at heart: the people running it are from this community. The developer, Giovanni Ramuldo Schmitt Banman, comes from a Mennonite family in Cuauhtémoc, and public municipal records list his address in the Manitoba colony. He also built several local-client apps (auction platform Auctionline, real estate firm Bienes Raíces Loewen, business management tools) and then moved those clients onto Campo Menonita.

### What it is

A bilingual Chinese-English local market, with web, iOS, and Android all live. Launched on iOS in Aug 202617 and shipped 1.0.24 versions by Nov 5, roughly 24 releases in 80 days.

The categories follow colony life: vehicles, farm equipment, parts, real estate, auctions, "homemade," and services. Buyers don't need an account, can search by ID, brand, model, and year, can view properties and goods on a map, and can call or message on WhatsApp to buy. The homepage carousel shows a 2005 John Deere 310 ($50k), a 2018 Ford F-150 Raptor (600k pesos), a cement plant ($200k), and a house in the El Valle colony ($110k). Prices are high, and many are listed directly in US dollars.

The homepage counter reads 10,077 listings active and 1,177 items sold (11-06). These are self-reported platform numbers; "sold" most likely just means sellers marked items as sold, not that transactions happened on the platform.

### How that Top Grossing rank happened

| Date | Mexico Shopping Top Grossing | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 10-31 | #10 | 0 |
| 11-02 | #18 | 0 |
| 11-04 | #31 | 0 |
| 11-06 | #38 | 0 |

App Store Mexico, 10-31 to 11-06.

The rank has been slipping day by day, and the rating has stayed at 0. Look at the neighbors on the same chart and it makes sense: 11-06 ranks #30 to #40 on Mexico's Shopping Top Grossing are mostly small utilities with 0 to 4 ratings. At that position, a few in-app purchases are enough.

Campo Menonita's in-app prices are high: a business plan at 2,000 pesos, and 10k "Menonedas" (in-app credits used for pinning and renewals) at 7,999 pesos, roughly $110 to $440. A couple of large purchases in late October were enough to push it into the top 10; with no sustained payments afterward, the rank has dropped (inference). The payers were most likely listed sellers, though it's also possible the developer or a partner was testing.

So don't read that rank as traction. When you use the Top Grossing chart to pick ideas, check how low the bar is for that chart first.

### How the sellers came in

On the consumer side, almost no one is using it: 0 iOS rating, 10+ Play installs, 124 followers on the Facebook page, 142 on Instagram. TikTok and X return nothing, and we found no press coverage or ads.

The seller side is a different story. The homepage links to more than 40 storefronts at "merchant-name.campomenonita.com", run by Wiebe, Peters, Thiessen, Friesen, Krahn, Dyck, Loewen and other Mennonite-surnamed farm equipment dealers, car dealers and property agents, plus LAMSA in Nuevo Ideal, Durango. The most interesting ones are the Canadian dealers: AgWest in Morden, Manitoba has 79 listings published and 77 live; Back 40 Sales in Stanley has 57 live. The counts match what their own websites stock, and the listings arrive in batches, which suggests they were imported straight from those sites (inference).

Why are there Canadian equipment dealers on a Mexican site? Manitoba and Cuauhtémoc are the two ends of the same Mennonite network. In the 1920s a group of Mennonites moved from Manitoba to Chihuahua, and the families still trade with each other. Used farm equipment has been flowing north to south ever since. Campo Menonita moved that existing trade chain online. Outsiders can't easily copy this, because it runs on relationships, not features.

The homepage spells out three hooks for recruiting sellers:

- **Sign up and get 2,000 Menonedas** , so you can publish for free at first.

- **Menonedas are buy-one-get-one, running through Dec 2027 31.**

- **"Your business, your own website"** : the business plan costs 3 MXN a month for the first 199 months, then 2,000 MXN a month. Merchants get a storefront with their logo and contact details, 100 listings a month, and each listing stays up for two years.

This last hook is the key one. For a farm equipment dealer that only has a Facebook page, the plan is really selling "a website that holds your whole inventory," and whether it brings buyers is secondary. Grupo Schmitt builds enterprise software, so it is selling its core product in a marketplace wrapper.

### Where the money comes from

Two revenue streams: the merchant plan at 2,000 MXN a month, and Menonedas, sold in 100 packs of 199 MXN, 10k for 7,999 MXN, used for pinning, homepage placement and relisting. We didn't find any other payment options on the web side.

If all 40 merchants moved to the full-price plan, that comes to roughly 80k MXN a month, about 4,000 USD (estimate, upper bound). Most merchants are probably still in the 199 MXN promo period, or the developer is importing their inventory for them.

### Who it's competing with

| Competitors | What it is | Compared with alternatives |
|---|---|---|
| Facebook Marketplace and local buy/sell groups | Groups like "Clasificado Cuauhtémoc Chihuahua" and "Maquinaria Agrícola Campos Menonitas" are the main local trading channel | Zero cost and everyone is already there. But there are no category forms, no search by model and year, no map and no merchant pages |
| Mercado Libre / Vivanuncios | National general marketplaces | They sell everything, don't understand colony addresses like "Campo 6½", and don't understand farm equipment |
| TractorHouse / AgDealer | Large North American farm equipment platforms | English-language, aimed at North American buyers, and they don't cover the Mexican colonies |
| Local auction houses (ausruf.com.mx, Subastas Froes and others) | Auction calendars plus YouTube livestreams | Auctions only. Campo Menonita has pulled them in with its auction storefronts |
| MenonitApp | The 2023 Mennonite merchant directory app | 1 ratings, no listing or trading features, and effectively dead |

The real competition is just the Facebook groups. Campo Menonita is winning on the seller side and hasn't started winning on the buyer side yet.

### If it were you

**Verdict:** Copying it as-is has no real opportunity. What's worth learning is the playbook. Its moat is that the developer lives in this community and knows these merchants, which a follower can't replicate. The consumer side also hasn't taken off, so there's no evidence yet that this market has enough money in it.

**Who it fits:** Developers who are already inside a closed community or a niche trade. For example, your family runs farm equipment, building materials, used cars or pet breeding, or you belong to an immigrant community with its own language and trading network, and you have a dozen merchants you can talk to face to face. The playbook: first sell merchants a SaaS for "website + inventory page," recover costs through subscriptions, then aggregate all the merchants into one vertical marketplace, and only then worry about consumer traffic. Mennonites have other colonies too: Durango, Zacatecas and Campeche in Mexico, plus Bolivia, Paraguay and Belize. But those places also require local relationships, not a Spanish-language app.

**Who it doesn't fit:** Anyone hoping to enter by "finding an underserved small town, building a classifieds app and spending a bit on ads." Buyers are already in the Facebook groups, which are free and good enough. Merchants won't hand you their inventory if they don't know you.

**How to get customers:** Follow its order. Sign up merchants one by one offline, nearly free for the first 3 months. Help them import their website inventory in bulk so the platform looks stocked on day one. For consumers, rely on Google indexing of product pages, and have merchants share their storefront links in their Facebook groups.

**When to move:** No rush. This kind of opportunity depends on relationships, not a window, so building it this year or next makes little difference.

**Signs you've got this wrong:** (1) By February 2027, if its iOS rating passes 100 and Play installs pass 1,000, consumer demand has really taken off, and this model is more replicable than it looks. (2) If an outside team with no local background builds a similar platform in another Mennonite colony or a similar community and gets merchants to pay, then relationships aren't the only barrier, and this should be graded higher.

[iOS store page ↗](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6794981561)

**Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report**

Competitors

| Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from this one |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Facebook Marketplace and Cuauhtémoc local buy/sell groups | Big-company features | Years | Main local trading channel | FB is free and everyone is on it, but it has no category forms, maps, search by model and year, or merchant storefronts. It's more structured, but its traffic is far below FB's. |
| Mercado Libre / Vivanuncios | Web | Years | National | Sells everything, doesn't understand Mennonite colony addresses or farm equipment trade. It's vertical plus local. |
| MenonitApp | iOS | 2023-11 | 1 ratings, largely inactive | Only a merchant directory, with no 2 listing, auction, or trading features |
| ausruf.com.mx / Manitoba Ausrufer / Subastas Froes | Web | Years | Local auction house with YouTube livestreams | Auction calendar only. Through its Auctionline storefront it has also folded auctions into its marketplace. |
| TractorHouse / AgDealer / TractorPost | Web | Years | Large North American platforms | English-language and aimed at North American buyers, not covering the Mexican Mennonite colonies |

Where users come from

- **Verified** **B2B pulls merchants (the developer's local business relationships and software clients)** : about 36 *.campomenonita.com merchant subsites (Wiebe, Peters, Thiessen, LAMSA, Canada's AgWest / Back 40, etc.); the same developer also built apps for Auctionline and Bienes Raíces Loewen

- **Verified** **Subsidies to recruit sellers** : 2,000 Menonedas on signup; business plan 199 MXN/month for the first 3 months, then 2,000 MXN/month; Menonedas doubled through 2027-12

- **Verified** **Owned social** : 124 Facebook page followers, 142 Instagram followers / 39 posts

- **Verified** **SEO** : Google has indexed a large number of individual product pages. Traffic unknown.

- Inferred **Paid ads / influencers / press** : nothing found on x-radar, TikHub or web search

## Campo Menonita (iOS 6794981561) research report

> Research date 2026-11-06. Sources: our appstore / googleplay databases, the Apple lookup API, campomenonita.com page text (via Jina), Jina/Exa search, x-radar, TikHub.

### One line

A local classifieds platform for the Mennonite colony in Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, Mexico (vehicles, farm equipment, parts, property, auctions, homemade food, services). It has a website plus iOS and Android apps, built by the local software company Grupo Schmitt. **Takeaway: it hasn't really taken off with users yet.** Its rank on the Mexico Shopping Top Grossing chart comes from a combination of a very low-barrier category chart and high-priced in-app purchases. What actually works on the platform is the B2B side: the developer brought in about 36 farm equipment dealers, property agents and car dealers (including Mennonite equipment dealers in Manitoba, Canada) to open branded sub-sites, and their inventory moved over with them.

### 1. What the data actually shows

| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Launched | 2026-08-17, v1.0.24 (2026-11-05). About 80 days, 24 versions released | Apple lookup |
| Mexico Shopping Top Grossing | 10-31 #10 → 11-01 #15 → 11-02 #18 → 11-03 #23 → 11-04 #31 → 11-05 #35 → 11-06 #38 | appstore.chart_rank |
| Score | The mx store has been 0; the us store page shows 1 ratings at 5 stars | appstore.app_day, Jina search summaries |
| Chart neighbors (11-06) | Ranks 30–40 are mostly small utilities with 0–40 ratings (Paxlo 4, Verró 0, Reprice 2, Lynxi 3) | appstore.chart_rank + app_profile |
| Google Play | "10+ downloads" | Play Store page (via Jina); not in the googleplay database |
| In-app purchase prices | Business plan $2,000 MXN; 10,000 Menonedas $7,999; 2,000 for $1,999; 1,000 for $1,499; 100 for $199 | App Store mx page |
| Self-reported by the website | 10,077 live listings, 1,177 items sold | campomenonita.com homepage counter (2026-11-06) |
| Social media | Facebook page: 124 followers; Instagram: 142 followers, 39 posts; not findable on X or TikTok | Jina for FB / IG summaries, x-radar, TikHub |

How to read this:

- Mexico Shopping Top Grossing ranks 30–40 are reachable with just a few in-app purchases. A single $2,000 or $7,999 MXN (about $110 / $440 USD) purchase is enough to reach the top 10. After that the rank drops day by day, and the rating has stayed at 0. This fits a pattern of "a couple of big purchases in late October, with no recurring payments after" (inference). The payers are most likely merchants buying business plans or bulk Menonedas in the app, though the developer or a partner buying them is also possible.

- Downloads are nearly invisible: 0 iOS ratings, and only 10+ downloads on Play. Consumer adoption is still far off.

- The recall card says "listing IDs have reached 99k", which can't be used to judge scale. The IDs on the site are 5-digit random numbers (19153, 54632, 76392…) and not sequential. The usable figure is the homepage counter's "10,077 live / 1,177 sold", but that is self-reported by the platform and unverified.

### 2. How does it get its supply? It recruits merchants through the developer's local connections

- **Developer background** : The developer, Giovanni Ramuldo Schmitt Banman, is a member of a Mennonite family from Cuauhtémoc. A transparency filing from the Cuauhtémoc municipality lists his address at Km 11 Calle Harms, Manitoba colony. His company, Grupo Schmitt, describes itself on the platform as "software, business management and digital solutions, serving businesses in Chihuahua" (gruposchmitt.campomenonita.com). The same developer account also runs Auctionline (auctions, auctionline.com.mx), Bienes Raíces Loewen (real estate), and Enterprise Grupo Schmitt (business management). He appears to be building apps for local clients and then connecting all of them to the Campo Menonita hub. Another local firm, SYB Schmitt (grain storage equipment, 17+ years), may or may not be the same family; this is unverified.

- **Merchant subdomains** : The homepage shows roughly 36 `*.campomenonita.com` merchant subdomains, including:
    - Cuauhtémoc local: Maquinaria Wiebe Km 24 (97 live listings), Peters Bros Tractor Sales, Thiessen, Friesen, Krahn, Camiones Dyck, Bienes Raíces Loewen
    - Nuevo Ideal, Durango: LAMSA (78 listings)
    - Manitoba, Canada: AgWest Ltd (Morden, 77 listings), Back 40 Sales (Stanley, 57 listings)
    - US: JS Tractors LLC and others

The Canadian merchants show "live listings = total posted" and were onboarded in bulk, which suggests inventory from their own websites was imported in batches (inference). These merchants prop up the high-ticket items on the homepage: John Deere 310 at $50k, a plant at $200k, a home at $110k.

- **Cross-border Mennonite network** : Manitoba and Cuauhtémoc are old Mennonite colonies with family ties and trade routes already in place, with used farm equipment flowing north to south. Bringing the Canadian merchants in moves that existing trade chain online. Outsiders would find this hard to replicate.

### 3. Where users came from (growth tactics)

| Channel | Evidence | Confirmed |
|---|---|---|
| B2B: sell directly to businesses (offline relationships, software clients) | About 36 merchant subdomains; the same developer built standalone apps for Auctionline and Loewen | Yes |
| Subsidies to attract sellers | 2,000 free Menonedas on signup; business plan 3 MXN for the first 199 months, then 2,000 MXN/month; "Menonedas doubled up to 2027-12-31" | Yes |
| Owned social media | FB page 124 followers, IG 142 followers; content is tutorials like "post without any tech skills" | Yes (very small reach) |
| Web SEO | Google has indexed many individual product pages (e.g., AGI Westfield auger conveyor, Town & Country snow pusher) | Yes (no traffic data) |
| Paid ads, creators, media, X, TikTok | x-radar and TikHub returned nothing, and no media coverage turned up | No evidence |

Where the money comes from: in-app purchases of Menonedas (pinning, relisting) and business plans ($2,000 MXN/month). The web side may use other payment methods; not verified.

### 4. Competitors

| Name | Where | When | Scale | How it differs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Facebook Marketplace + local FB groups ("Clasificado Cuauhtémoc Chihuahua", "Se vende de todo Cd. Cuauhtémoc", "Maquinaria Agrícola Campos Menonitas La Honda", "Maquinaria Agrícola Compra Venta de México", etc.) | Big-platform features / communities | Years | The mainstream local trading channel; group memberships run into the tens of thousands (not checked one by one) | No category forms, no maps, brands, or model/year search, no sold-item records; its strength is zero cost and everyone is already there |
| Mercado Libre / Vivanuncios / Trovit | Web + app | Years | National | Sells everything, not specific to Mennonite farm equipment or colony addresses ("Campo 6½"-style address system) |
| MenonitApp(Antonio Enriquez) | iOS | 2023-11 | 1 ratings | Menu's "business corridor" merchant directory has no C2C publishing or trading features; it's basically dead |
| ausruf.com.mx / Manitoba Ausrufer / Subastas Froes / Subastas Friessen | Web / YouTube / FB | Years | Local auctioneer, live-streamed auctions on YouTube | Auction calendar only; Campo Menonita brings auctions in through an Auctionline subdomain |
| Individual dealers' own FB pages (Maquinaria de los Campos Menonitas, etc.) | Facebook | Years | A few thousand followers each (unverified) | Single-store; it aggregates many of them |
| Tractor House, AgDealer, TractorPost, Farm Country Trader | Web | Years | Large North American platforms | English-language, North America-focused; doesn't cover buyers in Mexican colonies |

### 5. Differentiation

- Vertical down to one community and one place: Mennonite colonies, with Campo-numbered addresses, bilingual Spanish/English, USD pricing, and high-ticket equipment and real estate.

- Structured: each category has its own form, searchable by brand, model, year, and ID, with maps, comparisons, sold-item records, and direct WhatsApp contact.

- White-label subdomains for merchants: 2,000 MXN a month gets "their own website" and 100 listings. This is really Grupo Schmitt's core SaaS business, wrapped in a marketplace shell.

**Is this why it took off?** Only partly. Merchants came because of the subdomain product (building websites for Mennonite equipment dealers) plus the developer's local connections. The consumer buyer side hasn't taken off: 0 ratings, 10+ downloads, and about a hundred social followers. It hasn't won against FB groups yet. Chart rank is not evidence that it has taken off.

### 6. Visibility and copycats

- Visibility: few people know about it. Revenue is not public, there is no media or X coverage, and social following is around a hundred.

- Copycats: none found.

### 7. What to borrow

- The play is "sell websites as SaaS to local trade businesses, then aggregate all of them into one marketplace": B2B subscriptions pay for it first, and consumer traffic comes later.

- Closed community networks suit vertical classifieds: they share a language and address system, have high-ticket assets, and have cross-border family trade (Manitoba, Mexico, Bolivia, Paraguay, Belize). Outsiders find it hard to win merchant relationships.

- A small country's or niche category's Top Grossing chart can be pushed up by a couple of big purchases. Check the threshold on that same chart before using it as a product-selection signal.

### 8. Still unclear

- Who made the big late-October purchases (merchants, self-purchases, tests), and whether there are recurring subscriptions.

- 10,077 listings are live. How many were bulk-imported from merchant sites, and how many are organic C2C posts? How much real buyer traffic comes from the web side.

- Whether "1,177 sold" reflects platform-matched transactions (most likely sellers just marking items as sold).

- The relationship between SYB Schmitt and other local Schmitt businesses and the developer.

This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.