Community Food Catering App

FMB is a community-driven food catering initiative that organises meals for events, gatherings, and regular community dinners. Coordination was happening through group chats, spreadsheets, and phone calls -- a process that broke down as the community grew. RSVPs were unreliable, delivery logistics were chaotic, and event organisers had no central tool to manage it all.

The community needed a dedicated mobile app that members could use to browse upcoming events, RSVP for meals, specify dietary requirements, and arrange deliveries. Organisers needed a backend to plan menus, track headcounts, coordinate volunteer delivery drivers, and send notifications to the community.

The constraint was tight: a two-person team with four months to deliver a production-ready app on both iOS and Android, complete with push notifications and real-time updates. Budget was limited, so the architecture needed to be cost-effective at the scale of a few hundred active users.