I imagine it would be a matching engine that projects can apply to their own specific needs. Or are the brains of DoorDash and Uber already open source, like how most of the WWW runs on FOSS?

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[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Application is the easiest part to build out of all of this. that's not an issue at all. How are you going to ensure that A. Restaurants are going to want to work with you B. how are you going to get drivers to want to work for you C. how are you going to ensure that food will be safe once it leaves a restaurant until it gets to a customers door D. how are you going to ensure that everyone involved in this process gets paid.

Whose on the hook if the driver decides to eat the food that they pick up? How do you refund the customer? do you pay the Restaurant? etc, etc, etc

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Basically all of the legal and safety bits. Not an impossible task I'd say but it would probably require massive seed money (in which case it will just turn into another DoorDash) or an upfront deposit nobody would be willing to pay.