Meal kit marketplace MVP shipped in 14 days
The Challenge
The founder had validated demand through a WhatsApp group of 300+ people ordering weekly meal kits from local kitchens. But the manual order process — collecting orders in WhatsApp, copying to Google Sheets, manually billing each person — was unsustainable. They needed a real marketplace, fast, before the community lost momentum.
What We Built
We ran our MVP Sprint: Day 1 scoping (3 user flows, 1 admin panel), Days 2–4 design and Figma prototype, Days 5–12 build (Next.js web + React Native mobile + Supabase backend + Stripe), Days 13–14 testing and TestFlight/Play Store deployment. The founder launched to their WhatsApp community on Day 14 — first 100 signups in 6 hours.
What we learned
Ship 5 things, not 50
We cut chat, ratings, scheduling. They came in v2. Launch had auth, browse, order, pay, track. That was enough.
Use the right backend
Supabase saved 2 days vs custom Node. Auth, DB, storage, realtime — all in one. Worth the tradeoffs for an MVP.
Mobile and web in parallel
Sharing TypeScript types between Next.js and React Native let us build both without the usual context-switching tax.
Technologies we used
“We had 300 people waiting for a product. Kiteways gave us a shippable marketplace in 14 days. We've grown 4× since launch and the codebase has scaled with us.”
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