1. 🧩 Problem: What Problem Are You Solving?
Current delivery platforms exert disproportionate influence over restaurants, couriers, and customers, limiting their autonomy and negotiation power.
- Service fees and commission rates lack transparency, making it unclear how costs are calculated or distributed.
- Proprietary algorithms often favor certain vendors or couriers, creating biased visibility and order allocation.
- Transaction and customer data is fully controlled by centralized platforms, leaving participants with limited access, minimal transparency, and no control over how their data is used.
- Couriers often face low pay, unstable income, and limited protections, with little say in setting rates, schedules, or working conditions.
2. 💡 Solution: Your Proposed Approach
1. Auction-Based Delivery Fee
- The restaurant owner sets a baseline fee they are willing to pay the courier.
- The customer can add an optional tip or incentive to increase the fee for faster delivery.
- The courier reviews the total offered fee and decides whether to accept the job.
2. Community Governance
- Restaurants, customers, and couriers earn governance tokens based on their on-chain activity.
- These tokens grant voting rights to propose and approve protocol changes that shape the platform’s rules and policies.
3. 🔗 Why Blockchain (and Token)?
- Prevent Centralized Power Concentration: Eliminate the risk of a single company dominating once it captures a large user base.
- Ensure Transparent Pricing: Make all fees, commissions, and payments verifiable on-chain, removing hidden charges.
- Empower Actual Users: Give restaurants, customers, and couriers direct governance power to shape platform rules.
I build on Solana because it has low transaction fees and high throughput, so therefore real-time auctions and micro-payments can be fast and affordable for all participants.
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