Good day,


I'm looking to build a food delivery program for restaurants, something similar to UberEats or Skip The Dishes.

I already have a lot of experience in food delivery and so I already know what I need from a high level. What I am looking to do is sign up restaurants and customers and do deliveries, as I say, similar to Skip and UberEats. I did speak to Codebrew but they refused to help me because they are already working with another provider in Saskatoon, Canada.

Does anyone know of anyone that can help? Or any open source tools or sites that can help?

I am an experienced IT guy with some Linux knowledge, and a bit of programming but I am certainly no programming expert.

In a nutshell the idea is that the customer would log on to our web site, choose a location, choose a restaurant, pay online and then the request would get pushed to the restaurant and driver.

Just curious if anyone has any ideas on where I can get some good info, code, or anyone that would help.

You absolutely need to hire someone for this. And you know this (I mean, you already reached out to Codebrew).

Post an ad on our job board, and send me a private message when you've done so.

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Right so I'm wondering if there is anyone here at can help, or if anyone knows of anyone that can help. I would even consider a SaaS solution as well.

For some reason the admin of LQ doesn't like members to request jobs in threads. dugan posts the correct answer.

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Note that we made the job board completely free during the to help as many member post as possible: http://jobs.linuxquestions.org/post

--jeremy

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Thanks Jeremy, I posted this to the job site.

I didn't notice a link to the job site from LQ main site.

Um. Forth link on the "Main Menu" on the right-hand side of every page...

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Lol must be the meds I'm on. Thanks

Not to say something negative sounding about the site, ... but I am.

There's exactly one job on that page, the one you've just posted. So consider the frequency of hits that would garner, besides the fact that this thread may cause a few people to take a quick look, as I've just done and then moved away because I'm not interested in any work.

Secondly: You are proposing a "me too" capability, just saying.

Go online and search for food joints and at least in the US, I can GUARANTEE that about 5 or more hits you'll get are not the food joint in question, but instead a bunch of things like grubhub or Doordash where people are promising to deliver that food for you. So that's the beginning competition. You've already named two other ones in your first post.

Further, one can also consider the investor attention evaluation. Which would be, whether or not any investor would even return your call about this, or if they dismiss you as soon as they grasp what your proposal is about.

Do as you will and wish. I'm not here to continually nay-say your attempts, I'm also not here to support it, and you're not asking that of me directly. Having come from a company where we provided engineering designs for hardware and software for clients who asked for it and paid for it, I can't count how many starry eyed people contacted us with their "Great, Grand Idea" that's going to change the world and be worth millions, or even if it's free, it'll be a whole new revolution in connectivity/computing/life/etc. I can absolutely tell you that if they didn't have money to pay us, we did not take on the work. Or if they put up a great presentation and convinced us they would pay, but then tried to not pay, then they did not receive, that which they wouldn't pay for. Asking somebody to develop an app or infrastructure, or both, is not an overnight project. You do not really have great requirements stated there. So if you get someone energetic who can promise to do something rapid and inexpensive, ... what happens when you want to change it? What if you negotiate to pay them for "a deliverable", and not time and materials? Then you have to ask them for another quote to do additional work. Or instead you speak to someone who is organized, has their head on straight, and they work with you to derive your full requirements? Odds are that you'll discover that this seems to not be some fly-by-night, quick project that anybody who has made an app and/or website before can't do.

OK, off my reality pedestal.

Definitely some words of wisdom for sure. No worries I am taking all of this into consideration.

I'm also reaching out to many people that I have worked with in the past.

I've also reached out to some developer companies that I know as well and they have given me some good ideas.

As for the field, I have a lot of experience in the delivery industry, and I do see a need for lots of mom and pop places that need help.

Obviously my program have a fewer bells and whistles than UberEats or Skip initially, but I'd still like to give the smaller shops an affordable option.

Is DoorDash not in Canada? Or Postmates? They both do exactly what you’ve proposed, using mobile apps.
Just wondering. Back in the day, I might have been interested in developing such an application...but I’m enjoying retirement too much these days.

Doordash is in Canada but not Postmates.

I won't go into too much here but the don't the necessary requirements for a lot of the locally owned restaurants.

I figured, why not look at see what I can do. I'm an IT guy but I also have a fair bit of knowledge of the restaurant industry by doing deliveries, and I'm all about supporting the mom and pop shops, even if I don't get rich quick if you know what I mean.