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by sfmz 715 days ago
Messaging apps need databases to store messages, they also need authentication.

I read below you want to make a food delivery app. If we are actually talking about restaurant delivery and not illicit drugs -- you need the delivery people to have an app that sends you their location, a routing algorithm to choose the closest person to send, logins, payment processing, etc. etc.

Its a major major undertaking that would cost at least $10m if done from scratch.
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changer1 715 days ago
i live in turkey and the restaurants here operate with their own delivery people. for the MVP version, it will be operating with only cash option. i have a growth plan in my head. i think i don't need a really functioning platform, revenue or customers to start the plan. all i need a draft-MVP kind of stuff. Is this going to be that expensive?
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sfmz 715 days ago
A possible route is build a website that takes the order and sends an email to the restaurant (with the order).

This model has issues though, because you are not handling money, therefore you're not getting paid.

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changer1 715 days ago
yeah im thinking something like that actually but little different. im going to charge the restaurants monthly as a subscription model. the delivery apps i know charge by the percentage. so the difference between me and them is going to be this. while other delivery apps charge %10 of the order, i am going to charge 100$ monthly. fixed expense means 0 in long term. with that i am going to be able to cut down the prices. the plan is this. Is this still hard to develop? Btw my goal is not going to be only cash. i want to keep the MVP version as simple as possible. I have plans for payment methods too.
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sfmz 715 days ago
Its a simple business model, but its fundamentally not a simple app to build.

Lists of restaurants with lists of menu items and prices, add to shopping cart, enter address, verify address, send email, retain order in database, process payment, user-authentication to remember past orders, make look good on mobile app and desktop. I'm probably forgetting some things.

You don't want to build this, you want someone else to have already built it

https://www.capterra.com/resources/free-online-food-ordering...

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