I have seen this question come up a lot recently when food ordering apps are on hacker news (disclaimer: I work for one of "those companies"). My answer is thi

I have seen this question come up a lot recently when food ordering apps are on hacker news (disclaimer: I work for one of "those companies"). My answer is this: Respectfully, if you think creating & running a platform like DoorDash is not that complicated, I say knock yourself out. Show us the low-fee, "non-exploitative", reliable, "OSS" solution. There's even white-label delivery platforms[1] (you bring your own fleet) that could get you started dispatching orders right away. To be honest I'm not sure what you mean by "OSS" here as the issue is not proprietary software but the digital and physical infrastructure, payment processing, fraud prevention, merchant recruitment etc. as well as the very large support staff. I would love to see better and better solutions to the "convenient, cheap, fair-to-couriers, fair-to-restaurants food delivery challenge." I think you'll find it's a more difficult problem than it seems at first blush. 1: https://onfleet.com https://onfleet.com for example