The food delivery platforms that win are the ones that operate, not just the ones that aggregate.
We build custom web applications for food delivery startups — restaurant onboarding portals, driver dispatch dashboards, order management systems, and the operational back-office that Doordash doesn't let you build on top of. Fixed scope, fixed price.
You've launched on DoorDash and Uber Eats. Now you're building your own delivery network for a city or vertical niche — and you need real software for restaurant partners, drivers, and operations, not a Glide app and a Google Sheet.
Building a competitive food delivery startup isn't an app problem — it's an operations problem. The app is table stakes. The moat is how well you onboard restaurants, how reliably you dispatch drivers, how fast you resolve order issues, and how efficiently your ops team manages it all without adding headcount for every new partner.
Most early-stage delivery startups solve this with whatever no-code tools they can stitch together: a Glide or Bubble app for order management, a Google Sheet for driver tracking, a Slack channel for restaurant support, and a Stripe integration for payouts. This works at 50 orders a day. It breaks at 500. Restaurant partners get frustrated when there's no portal to track their order history or update their menu. Drivers don't have a reliable way to see dispatched jobs. Your ops team is manually routing between screens.
The platforms that build defensible delivery businesses at scale — whether that's a vertical niche (B2B office meals, catering, alcohol), a geographic wedge (a city the majors underserve), or a marketplace twist (healthy food, local-first) — invest early in the operational layer. Not consumer-facing app polish. The restaurant partner portal, the driver dispatch board, the operations analytics.
A delivery platform with a real restaurant partner portal, a driver dispatch board, and an order management system your ops team can actually run — purpose-built for your geography or niche.
Restaurant partner portal
Menu management, operating hours, order history, payout reports, and support ticket submission — a clean branded hub where restaurant partners actually want to log in.
Driver dispatch and job management
Real-time order queue, job acceptance and handoff, route display, and earnings dashboard for drivers on a mobile-first web app. GPS pings to the ops board.
Order management and ops dashboard
Live order feed across all restaurants and drivers, SLA tracking, issue flagging, and one-click remediation tools (re-dispatch, refund, comp) for your ops team.
Finance and payout tooling
Restaurant payouts via Stripe Connect, driver earnings settlement, fee calculation per order, and reconciliation reports so your finance team isn't building spreadsheets.
Analytics for growth decisions
Order volume by time and geography, restaurant performance by acceptance rate and rating, driver utilisation, and delivery time by zone — the metrics that tell you where to expand next. Built on Next.js, Convex for real-time order state, Stripe Connect for payouts, and React Native or mobile web for the driver interface.
One honest number to start.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. The number below is the starting point — final scope is built from your brief.
A delivery platform with a real restaurant partner portal, a driver dispatch board, and an order management system your ops team can actually run — purpose-built for your geography or niche.
Three steps, every time.
The same repeatable engagement on every project. No surprises, no mystery, no billable ambiguity.
Brief & discovery.
We send you questions, then get on a call. Output: a written scope with every step, feature, and integration listed.
Build & ship.
Fixed schedule, weekly reviews. No scope creep unless you change the scope — and if you do, we reprice it transparently.
Warranty & retainer.
30-day warranty on every launch. Most clients stay on a monthly retainer for ongoing features and maintenance.
Why Fixed-Price Matters Here
Delivery startups are burning runway and racing to prove unit economics before the next round. A time-and-materials build is a budget risk you can't afford when you're also paying for driver acquisition, restaurant onboarding, and marketing. Fixed scope, fixed price, shipped in 12 weeks — so you're operating, not building, by the time investors need to see GMV.
Related engagements.
Questions, answered.
Yes, if it's in scope. Most delivery startups we work with have already proven demand through a simple ordering flow and are investing in the operational back-office next. But we can build consumer ordering, restaurant portal, driver app, and ops dashboard as a full platform. It scopes to $80k–$150k+ depending on complexity.
Restaurant partners log into their portal and update hours, items, prices, and availability directly. Changes propagate to the ordering surface immediately. No phone calls to your team, no manual CSV updates.
Google Maps Platform for routing and ETA calculation, with a Convex-backed real-time location layer for driver pings. If you need more sophisticated route optimization, we integrate with Routific or similar.
Restaurant portal, driver dispatch, order management, and payouts typically runs $45k–$90k. Adding a full consumer ordering app on web and mobile scopes to $100k+. Every engagement is fixed-price.
Ops platform (restaurant portal + dispatch + order management) ships in 12 to 14 weeks. Full platform including consumer app is 16 to 20 weeks.
Tell Ryel about your project.
Describe what you’re building and what outcome you need. You’ll have a written, fixed-price scope within the week.