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Food Tech / Marketplace·2024

Food Delivery Platform

Food Delivery Platform

Brief

Multi-sided food delivery app with real-time order tracking (NDA).

Confidential client · Anonymized case study.

A food delivery application enabling users, restaurants, and delivery partners to register and operate on a shared platform. Customers order food for home delivery; restaurants manage menus and orders; delivery partners handle fulfilment with live tracking.

Problem

Food delivery platforms require reliable order orchestration across three parties with real-time visibility. The project needed robust APIs for registration, menu management, payments, and live order/delivery updates at scale.

Features

User, restaurant, and delivery partner registration and profiles
Menu management and order placement APIs
Payment integration and order validation
Full order lifecycle: create → confirm → assign rider → in-progress → delivered
Real-time order updates and delivery tracking via WebSockets
Push-style notifications to users and restaurants

Outcome

Concurrent real-time connections

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API endpoints delivered

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Platform uptime

0

Growth signal

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  • Delivered a functional multi-sided food delivery platform
  • Enabled real-time order and delivery tracking for all stakeholders
  • Established a reliable order lifecycle management with validated state transitions

Challenges & solutions

  • Real-time order visibility → Django Channels WebSocket architecture for live status broadcasts
  • Complex order state management → Explicit state machine with validation at each transition
  • Multi-party notifications → Targeted WebSocket groups per order for users, restaurants, and riders