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How hard is it to make a FOSS DoorDash or Uber? (feddit.nl)

submitted 4 weeks ago by fort_burp@feddit.nl to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 10 points 4 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.