[ian0]

In Indonesia we have Gojek, who offer a courier service thats extremely cheap. Ive seen it used to distribute portions of home-cooked meals to relatives.

P2P is extremely difficult due to quality control issues though. Imagine a food poisoning case. Id hazard that its close to impossible to test food effectively en-route while keeping costs low.

What is maybe possible is to partner with existing food stalls and have them sign up to a plan/brand that says they will distribute leftovers or charitable meals.

Each evening these merchants specify what meals they have to donate. These then appear in an app accessible by vetted low income users. You don't need strict quality control as they are already established outlets (even if stalls).

An MVP of this would be to sign up some stalls, give them a nice logo that says they help with the hunger problem. Then call them each eve and ask if they have leftovers. If they do, send an on-demand driver to pick them up and route to nearest the shelter / church / mosque etc who can help distribute to those who need.

= PS For a developed market version I spotted this on the front page a little while go - seems to be a few like it:

https://www.gocopia.com/

[MotwaniSuhas]

Thanks so much for that roadmap, sounds viable. And I completely understand, quality control seems to be the biggest challenge.

GoCopia is exactly what we want to do here, thanks so much for sharing :)