Build your own DoorDash with Claude Code

A food delivery marketplace: restaurants with menus, cart and checkout, order tracking for customers and more.

Big buildPayments, real-time, regulation or heavy infrastructure

The Claude Code prompt

Build my own take on DoorDash: a food delivery marketplace. Give it an original name, logo, colours and copy, and do not use DoorDash's name, branding or assets.

Version one should have:
- Restaurants with menus
- Cart and checkout
- Order tracking for customers
- Restaurant order dashboard
- Driver app with pickups and drop-offs

The hard part: Three apps in one (customer, restaurant, driver) and live order status. Start with customer and restaurant, and add drivers later.

How to build it:
1. Read this folder first. If it is empty, set up Next.js (App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind) with Postgres through Prisma or Supabase, and Supabase Auth or Auth.js for sign-in. Write a short PLAN.md with the data model, screens, third-party services and what you are leaving out of version one.
2. Build the core loop end to end before anything else: restaurants with menus, working with real data saved to the database.
3. Add the rest of the features one at a time, and seed realistic demo data so every screen looks alive.
4. Keep API keys in environment variables, and put any paid service behind a small interface with a local stub, so the app runs on a fresh machine without accounts.
5. Run it, click through every screen on desktop and mobile widths, fix what breaks, and finish with a summary of what works, what is stubbed and how to deploy it.

Paste it into Claude Code in an empty folder. It plans first, so read PLAN.md and steer before it starts building.

Version one

  • Restaurants with menus
  • Cart and checkout
  • Order tracking for customers
  • Restaurant order dashboard
  • Driver app with pickups and drop-offs

The hard part

Three apps in one (customer, restaurant, driver) and live order status. Start with customer and restaurant, and add drivers later.

Make it yours: a niche DoorDash ignores, an original name and brand, and one feature it does badly done well.

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