Bringing authentic home-cooked meals to local communities.
HomEatz connects local home chefs with diners looking for authentic, homemade meals. We built a two-sided marketplace where chefs can showcase their dishes, manage orders, and receive payments, while diners can discover, order, and pick up fresh home-cooked food — with no delivery drivers or ghost kitchens.
A walk through the product.
Home chefs struggle to reach local diners without the complexity of running their own food business.
Traditional food-delivery platforms are primarily designed around restaurants and delivery logistics, making them less suited to independent home chefs who prepare food from their own kitchens and offer local pickup.
Diners, meanwhile, have limited ways to discover authentic, home-cooked meals from independent chefs in their community.
HomeEatz was built to bridge this gap — connecting local diners with independent home chefs through a dedicated marketplace for discovering, ordering, communicating, and arranging pickup.
What it took.
- Connecting local diners with independent home chefs. HomeEatz needed a dedicated discovery experience that helps diners find home-cooked meals from nearby independent chefs, while giving chefs a simple way to showcase their kitchen, listings, and offerings.
- Supporting two distinct user experiences in one app. We built a shared Flutter application that adapts between diner and cook modes, giving customers tools for discovery, ordering, and tracking while providing chefs with dedicated listing, order, profile, and earnings management.
- Making pickup and ordering simple. With no delivery drivers or ghost kitchens, the experience needed to keep fulfillment focused on local pickup. Location services, Google Maps integration, order tracking, and pickup directions help diners coordinate directly with the chef.
- Building trust across payments and chef payouts. Stripe was integrated for secure checkout and Stripe Connect onboarding, allowing diners to pay for orders while chefs can onboard for payouts and track their earnings through the platform.
What ships in the product.
Local meal discovery
Diners can discover home-cooked meals from independent local chefs, browse food listings, filter available options, and explore individual dish and chef profiles.
Seamless ordering
Diners can browse dishes, select available options and customisations, place orders, and complete checkout through a streamlined ordering flow.
Pickup-focused order tracking
Orders can be managed from confirmation through pickup, with order status visibility and directions to the chef's pickup location through Google Maps.
Cook dashboard
Home chefs get a dedicated dashboard to manage their kitchen profile, food listings, incoming orders, earnings, ratings, and customer activity.
Listing & menu management
Chefs can create and manage food listings with images, descriptions, pricing, and custom options, making it easy to keep their offerings up to date.
Stripe payments & chef payouts
Stripe powers customer checkout, while Stripe Connect onboarding enables eligible chefs to set up their payout accounts and receive earnings through the platform.
In-app chat
Diners and chefs can communicate directly through in-app chat, helping them coordinate order-related questions and pickup details.
Chef profile sharing & QR codes
Chefs can share their profiles through dedicated HomeEatz links and generate QR codes that diners can scan to open their profile and explore available meals.
Location & personalized discovery
Location services, Google Places, geocoding, and Google Maps integration help diners set their location, discover nearby chefs, search for addresses, and navigate to pickup locations.
Built for a seamless two-sided marketplace.
We chose a scalable mobile-first stack that supports both sides of the marketplace — giving diners a smooth ordering experience while providing home chefs with the tools to manage listings, orders, payments, and their profiles.
Key screens, detailed.
A closer look at the core user flows built for this product.
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