The hardest part is getting restaurants to list themselves on the service. Worked in the restaurant industry before and during the pandemic, many restaurants despise using delivery apps, and had deliberately chosen not to, I in fact have told one DoorDash rep to fuck off specifically, because they wouldn’t stop trying to list us without our permission. They really are bloodsucking cretins, and it took the financial pressures of the pandemic to strongarm 99% of restaurants to list themselves with some sort of delivery app. Now they all do just to keep pace.

I want to say you can do it!! Have hope that you can and will succeed and you will!! Would to see it happen!!

If you mean something like self hosted, it would be really easy, but no one would use it. Imagine you order a burrito and the guy just eats your burrito, and you can’t do anything about it. Or imagine you’re a driver and you deliver the food, then don’t get paid. You need a business in between to take the liability for anyone to trust it. It being open source wouldn’t really matter, because you need massive capital and infrastructure to make it work.

So you want to create a human exploitation / profit maximising system?

Pretty sure those are proprietary algorithms, with some common knowledge foundations that LLMs will happily tell you about.

It’s all simple enough at a small scale, but the challenge is optimizing it for your use-cases, and building for scale & reliability in a cost efficient manner.

Such companies will likely also have top notch software engineers & statisticians, marketing teams, psychologists and lawyers on the payroll, all contributing their part to the perpetuation of human misery in the name of corporate profit.