Food systems · Nov 2022 – May 2025
PlateConnect
A platform connecting restaurants, grocery stores, food banks, and charities to reduce waste and redistribute food.
- Fulfillment
- +25%
- Partners
- 20+ locations
- Stack
- SwiftUI · Firebase
Splits
- 1Problem
- Restaurants need fast reporting. Coordinators need enough detail to decide on a pickup.
- 2Requirements
- Translated restaurant and charity workflows into MVP requirements, balancing inventory, capacity, and delivery timing.
- 3Approach
- Photo-based reporting, low-friction quantity input, matching by proximity and urgency, and in-app messaging.
- 4Diagnosis
- Found a ~33% match failure rate across timing and capacity constraints, improving total fulfillment efficiency by 25%.
- 5Partnerships
- 20+ retail and grocery locations, including Dunkin' and Salad and Go, with UX iterated on their feedback.
- 6Stack
- SwiftUI, Dart, Firebase
Route: 4.46 mi through Austin · about 1h 29m on foot