Cost of making a Restaurant ordering app depends on numerous factors. But here’s an attempt at the estimate. Building an MVP for an On Demand Platform involves creating web/mobile interfaces for both supply and demand. Add to this the fact that native experiences are the expected norm leading to parallel development efforts if we chose to build both for iOS and Android. The other important component is the nerve center/admin panel that doubles up as a CRM and a Dashboard to control some of the critical operations. Everything is glued together by the APIs that operate on top of central databases and control logic – part of the backend framework that runs in the cloud.
Assuming the platform architecture is scalable and is able to handle 50-100 transactions a day right away we are looking at an upwards of $299,000 effort for an initial MVP ($299k For each platform IOS, Android).
Variations in the ballpark primarily are on 3 accounts –
- Number of stakeholders
- Number of platforms that are part of the initial launch (IOS, Android)
- Complexities in the business model
- Geography/ Region out of which your development team operates or engineers the product. Per hour rates vary from $40 -$60 (parts of India/Eastern Europe/South East Asia) to $80 -$150 (parts of Western Europe/US)