BiteDash is a food-ordering web app we designed, built and run ourselves to prove out a real-time ordering stack for Karachi restaurants: digital menus, a fast cart and order status pushed to the customer the moment it changes.
Drawn first. Then built, layer by layer.
- L1 Client
- L2 API & realtime
- L3 Data
- L4 Hosting
- ▣ Rendered product
The problem
Ordering flows for local restaurants tend to be slow to load, need a page refresh to see order status, and lose people at checkout. We wanted a reference build that fixes all three without exotic infrastructure.
How we approached it
- 01Wrote the order lifecycle as a state machine first (placed → accepted → cooking → on the way → delivered), then designed the API around it.
- 02Pushed status changes over Socket.io so the customer never refreshes; REST handles everything else.
- 03Built the client on React + Vite with route-level code splitting so the menu is interactive quickly on mid-range phones.
- 04Kept the cart client-side with server validation at checkout, so adding items never waits on the network.
Numbers, with sources
- Restaurant discovery with cuisine, rating, delivery-time and price filters
- Live order tracking pushed over WebSockets
- Instant cart totals and a short checkout
- Responsive layouts for desktop and mobile
The stack
BiteDash is our own product, so there are no client revenue numbers to report yet. What we can show you is the architecture, the code and a live build.
What shipped
- Client
- React · Vite · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · Framer Motion
- API
- Node.js · Express · Socket.io
- Data
- MongoDB
- Hosting
- Vercel · Render
Want your system drawn like this?
A 30-minute Google Meet call with one of our co-founders. We sketch the architecture with you, tell you honestly what it takes, and send notes afterwards, whether or not you hire us.