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Mealo

GetMealo is an Indian home food ordering mobile app built in React Native — connecting people who want fresh homemade tiffins and breakfast with local home cooks and cloud kitchens. Akshar built the full backend using WordPress REST APIs, the consumer-facing Android and iOS app, and the brand website.

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Overview

Project Overview

GetMealo is an Indian food tech platform solving a genuine everyday problem — people living away from home who crave fresh, hygienic, home-cooked meals but have no reliable way to find them. The app connects consumers with local home cooks, dabbawalas, and small tiffin services for daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner ordering.

Akshar was responsible for three core deliverables: a WordPress-powered backend serving all app data through custom REST APIs, a cross-platform React Native consumer app for Android and iOS, and the GetMealo brand website. The backend handled menu management, order placement and tracking, cook/vendor profiles, and delivery zone logic — all served via a clean API layer consumed by the mobile app.

The completed GetMealo platform gives home food providers a digital storefront and gives consumers a reliable channel to discover and order homemade meals near them — filling the gap between restaurant delivery apps and the informal home cook economy.

Key Details

Project Information

An overview of the industry, core services, platform integrations, and technology stack powering this solution.

01 INDUSTRY

Business Domain

Food & Beverage
02 SERVICES

Services Rendered

Backend & API Development
03 PLATFORM

Core Platforms

WordPress
04 TECH STACK

Core Technologies

PHP REST API Integration
Client Obstacles

Key Challenges

Solving key business challenges to deliver a reliable, user-friendly, and high-performing digital solution.

1

WordPress as Mobile Backend

The client needed a backend manageable without a custom admin panel, so we architected WordPress as a headless CMS with custom post types, ACF fields, and extended REST API endpoints serving all menu, order, and vendor data to the React Native app.

2

Custom REST API Design

WordPress's default REST API doesn't cover order management or delivery logic, so we built custom API endpoints handling order placement, status updates, menu availability, and cook profile queries — all consumed by the mobile app.

3

Cross-Platform React Native App

A single React Native codebase needed to perform natively on both Android and iOS across the range of mid-range Indian smartphones, requiring careful optimisation of list rendering, image loading, and navigation performance.

4

Home Cook Onboarding Model

Home cooks are non-technical users who need to manage menus and availability daily, so we built a simple vendor management flow within the WordPress backend that the GetMealo team could use to onboard and manage cook profiles without developer involvement.

5

Menu and Availability Logic

Home food availability is highly dynamic — menus change daily and items sell out quickly — so we built real-time menu availability management with item-level stock control surfaced through the API to the app.

6

Delivery Zone Filtering

Home cooks serve limited local areas, so we built location-based filtering that surfaced only cooks and menus available in the user's specific delivery zone — preventing orders to unreachable addresses.

The Way We Work

We combine innovation, expertise, and collaboration to deliver tailored solutions that help businesses achieve their goals. Our structured approach ensures quality, transparency, and measurable results at every stage.

Step 01

Discover

Understand your business needs, goals, and challenges.

Step 02

Plan

Create a customized strategy and project roadmap.

Step 03

Design

Develop user-focused and innovative solution concepts.

Step 04

Build

Implement and develop the solution using best practices.

Step 05

Test

Ensure quality, performance, and reliability through rigorous testing.

Step 06

Deploy

Launch the solution smoothly and efficiently. Test, validate, and go live with confidence. Deliver a stable user experience.

Step 07

Maintain

Provide ongoing maintenance, optimization, and growth support.

Project Highlights

Key Features

An overview of the advanced features and components integrated into this digital solution.

Home Food Discovery

Location-filtered discovery of local home cooks, tiffin services, and cloud kitchens serving fresh homemade meals — breakfast, lunch, and dinner — near the user's address.

React Native Cross-Platform App

Single React Native codebase delivering a smooth native experience on both Android and iOS — optimised for mid-range Indian devices with fast list rendering and offline-tolerant navigation.

WordPress Headless Backend

WordPress powering the entire app backend via custom REST APIs — giving the GetMealo team a familiar admin interface for managing cooks, menus, and orders without a custom dashboard.

Real-Time Menu Availability

Item-level availability control updated through the backend API — ensuring the app shows only what's actually available for today's meal slot.

Delivery Zone Filtering

Location-based cook and menu filtering showing only providers who deliver to the user's address — preventing missed orders and out-of-zone disappointments.

Brand Website

The GetMealo brand website communicating the platform's proposition to consumers, home cooks looking to list their services, and potential investors — aligned to the app's visual identity.

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"Working with Aksharsoft Solutions has been a great experience. Impressive skills, professionalism and a genuine commitment to getting the job done right. They have a remarkable ability to take a complex idea and turn it into a reality. It's rare to find a team that works this quickly and effectively while still making you feel completely in the loop. I can't recommend them highly enough, in fact, I work with Aksharsoft on many continual projects and they always have a solution to my problems. If you're looking for a web development team that treats your project like their own and consistently delivers top-notch results, look no further."

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“Malay is a highly skilled web developer. He has been involved in our platform from the beginning and is part of our success. He works fast and is very clear in his communication. We continue to work with Malay and are very satisfied.”

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Jamie Cox

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“We have worked with many web developers in our time but we have never worked with a web designer who is as efficient, intelligent and able to deliver exactly what we ask for within an incredible time-frame as Malay." "Malay has developed more than one website for us, the main website he developed exceeded our expectations and does more than we ever thought imaginable, if we’ve ever had an issue Malay has been able to resolve it incredibly quick for us, I would recommend Malay to anyone and will continue to do so.”

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Nico Huck

“I started Working with Malay since 2018. He is the most reliable developer I ever met. He is honest and he made a lot of project work really fast. I also worked with him with bigger development team. He has also project management skills as well. He also has a deep understanding in the project workflow and can imagine in business models, thats why I appreciate to work with him close with the clients. Without him, my business were not able to grow such fast.”

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ESSENTH

“Malay has a deep knowledge of the computer world and its languages. He is one of those people who has a perfect balance between ability and commitment, managing to design creative and successful customizations. His patience and dedication to his work convert him into an ally of any project. We are pleased to have met him on this journey ...”

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Mikkel Grønne

“Akshar Soft Solutions is the team you want to work with – honest, reliable and hard-working. They treat your project like it’s their own and they treat their clients like family. It has been a true pleasure working with Akshar Soft Solutions to scale my business and I look forward to many more prosperous years.”

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