Ship It Live — $1,999 flat
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Ship It Live · delivery sprint
Orders in, drivers out, live in 30 days.
A real ordering flow, real payments, and drivers who know what to collect and where to take it. One month, one fixed number.
Quick answer
An on-demand delivery app can be designed, built and taking real orders in 30 days for a fixed $2,500, covering the customer ordering app, payments, a driver view and order status tracking. Live GPS fleet tracking with route optimisation across a large driver network is a separate, larger project.
The plan
Day one to day 30, written down.
You get this schedule before you commit, not after. If a phase slips, that is mine to absorb — the price and the date were agreed before anything started.
- 1
Days 1–3
Scope lock
The delivery model — your own drivers, third-party couriers, or collection only. Zones, fees and what happens when something goes wrong. This decides the whole build.
- 2
Days 4–12
Design
Customer ordering first, because that flow decides your conversion rate, then the driver and operator views. Real screens inside the first week.
- 3
Days 13–24
Build
Catalogue, cart, checkout, payments and the order pipeline that moves an order from placed to delivered. Notifications wired to every status change.
- 4
Days 25–28
Run real orders
End-to-end test orders through your actual kitchen or warehouse, with a real driver. Delivery apps break in the field, not in the browser.
- 5
Days 29–30
Launch
Payments live, staff and drivers trained, and your first real orders taken on your own platform instead of someone else's.
What $2,500 gets you
Everything needed to launch — nothing padding the invoice.
Who books this
Built for
Restaurants and shops paying 30% to an aggregator on every order
Local delivery operators running the whole thing on WhatsApp
Founders launching delivery in a city the big platforms ignore
Real situations
Five ways this shows up, and what actually fixes it.
Not hypothetical — the shape of the problem before someone books this sprint, and the specific part of the build that resolves it.
Situation 1
Paying 30% commission on orders from regulars
A restaurant or shop is paying a large aggregator commission on every order, including from repeat customers who would have ordered directly if there were a way to.
A commission-free ordering app captures those orders directly — the aggregator stays useful for new-customer discovery, not for regulars who already know the business.
Situation 2
Running the whole delivery operation over WhatsApp
A local delivery operator currently takes orders, assigns drivers and tracks status entirely through chat messages, which breaks down the moment volume picks up.
Customer ordering, driver assignment and order-status tracking replace the group chat with a system built for the actual volume.
Situation 3
The big platforms don't serve this city at all
A founder wants to launch delivery in a city or niche the major platforms have ignored, but has no infrastructure of their own to run it on.
A full ordering, payment and driver-assignment flow ships in 30 days — the platform the big players never built for this market.
Situation 4
No way for customers to see where their order actually is
Customers currently call to ask where their order is, because there's no visibility into status between placing it and it arriving.
Order statuses customers can follow — accepted, preparing, on the way, delivered — cut the 'where is it' calls without needing live GPS tracking.
Situation 5
Cash-heavy market where card-only checkout doesn't work
A business operates in a market where a meaningful share of customers pay cash on delivery, and a card-only ordering system would quietly exclude them.
Cash-on-delivery is enabled alongside Stripe per zone, matching how the actual local market pays.
The honest part
When 30 days is the wrong answer.
A fixed deadline only works when the scope genuinely fits inside it. These are the cases where I will tell you so rather than take the booking.
Live GPS tracking across a large driver fleet with automated dispatch and route optimisation. That is a real engineering programme and I would rather scope it honestly than half-build it.
Three separate native apps for customers, drivers and merchants in one month. Pick the one that must be an app; the others start as web and earn their app later.
Marketplaces aggregating many independent restaurants with individual payouts — that is closer to the marketplace sprint, and I will point you there.
Inside the 30 days
- Customer ordering app — browse, cart, checkout, in under two minutes
- Menu or catalogue management you control, with availability toggles
- Payments through Stripe, plus cash-on-delivery if your market needs it
- Order statuses customers can actually follow, from accepted to delivered
- A driver view: assigned orders, addresses, contact, mark as delivered
- An operator dashboard for incoming orders, assignment and refunds
- Delivery zones, fees and minimum order rules you can change yourself
- Source code, design files and 30 days of support at handover
Quoted as one number before day one. A week running long is mine to absorb.
Outside the line
- Live GPS tracking across a large driver fleet with automated dispatch and route optimisation. That is a real engineering programme and I would rather scope it honestly than half-build it.
- Three separate native apps for customers, drivers and merchants in one month. Pick the one that must be an app; the others start as web and earn their app later.
- Marketplaces aggregating many independent restaurants with individual payouts — that is closer to the marketplace sprint, and I will point you there.
Real work, sized and priced separately. You hear it before you book, not at handover.
Questions
Before you book
Yes, for one operator in one area with one delivery model. The month covers ordering, payments, driver assignment and status tracking. What does not fit is automated dispatch across a large fleet, and I will say that at the scoping call rather than after you have paid.
Other sprints
30 days from now, this could be live.
A 30-minute call decides whether the scope fits. If it doesn't, I'll tell you what would.