iFood Clone

iFood was founded in 2011 and is part of the Brazilian mobile conglomerate Movile. Although it began as a restaurant delivery app only, supermarkets and grocery stores were added to the platform in a response to competitor Rappi’s market entry.  By early 2019, iFood had over 400,000 orders per day, amounting to over 12 million client requests per month. According to data provided by SimilarWeb, iFood’s active user base was 16 x larger than that of its close competitors.  iFood holds about 80% of the delivery market share.The delivery personnel associated with the company are called Dashers.
The company secures its commission from the businesses, and it’s near 20%.
The delivery fee for the users is between $5- $8 for the users.
The company today delivers in more than 4,000 cities across America and Canada.

iFood’s initial strategy relied on a platform business model. Value was created for users, restaurants or retail stores and drivers by essentially connecting them through the app. iFood had a first-mover advantage and network effects have played an important role in the rapid expansion of its user and restaurant base: as more restaurants were added to the platform, users became more inclined to use it to “shop” for their meals, which led to other restaurants to want to join as well. When compared to its top competitors in Brazil, UberEats and Rappi, iFood and UberEats rank amongst the most popular ones, depending on which app store is analyzed. 

Fabricio Bloisi is the founder of iFood.

iFood has raised a total of $591.9M in funding over 7 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Nov 13, 2018 from a Series G round.

It is not easy to maintain 80% of market share, and competitors like UBER Eats and Rappi are playing hard, in some cases, their apps are even better in terms of tracking orders and delivery speed. However, customers are sticking to iFood, and the reason apparently is that the company understands the business, and deep dive into customer experience and into the restaurant business.

Recently, the Chinese Didi entered the Brazilian market, buying the 99Food, building on the expertise of its ride-sharing platform 99Taxis, so things are getting more exciting competition-wise.

The design development process can be roughly divided into three stages:

• Development of the layout — 25 hours: visualization of what your application will look like.
• The embodiment of design — 45 hours: coding, working with images, photos, videos, and texts.
• Design testing of technical and conceptual levels — 22 hours: user experience and usability.

The cost of developing a food delivery app like iFood depends on several factors.

Location of the App Develop Company
Experience of the App Developers
Complication of the App Design
Number and Level of App Features
App Platform You Choose (Android/iOS/Hybrid)
Type of App Development: Clone or Custom App Development
All these factors could lead your food delivery app development cost anywhere from $25,000 to $100,000 or even more.

Logically thinking if you do buy our app and you want to customize it, there is no better team than ours to do it for you since we have developed all the underlying base code.

We have the biggest range of pre-built business applications in the market that cover several business models. We built all these products with the sole aim of reducing time to market and cost to market for our customers.

On average it costs over $100,000 to build most of these products that we have, so using them as a base to build your customized business idea will definitely bring your costs and time down significantly.

Most custom software development companies pitch you a full project plan to develop a product from scratch, a process that might take months and cost you pot loads of money, where-as we pull something out from our repotriotire, customize it and voila we have you a product in let’s say 60 days 🙂

In case you do have an idea that is not similar to any of our pre-built products we can surely develop something totally custom, from scratch for you. We will try to re-use some of the micro-services and reusable software components to do some rapid application development.

We have done this successfully for large corporations who have raised multi million dollars in venture capital funds. Our team comes with a strong technical expertise in a broad range of technologies that cover:

1. API Development – GoLang, Node.JS, Python, Elixir (Erlang)
2. App Development – iOS ( Swift, Objective C) , Android (Java, Kotlin), Flutter, React Native
3. Web Application Development – React.JS, AngularJS 9.0, Next.JS, Vue.JS
4. Data Science & Analytics – Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Hadoop
5. Blockchain- Hyperledger
6. Desktop Application – Electron JS

The major costs involved for running applications of such nature are as follows:

1. Server costs for hosting the API’s and Database – A decent configuration on AWS / Azure / Google / Digitalocean will cost you anywhere between $150-$200/month.
2. Content Delivery Network – Apps such as these require the content to be delivered seamlessly with low latency and low bandwidth consumption. We use a CDN to ensure we are doing image / video transformations to maintain content quality at different network speeds and different devices.
3. Text messages for verification codes – We generally use Twilio for sending text messages. The price for this depends on the country and can be tracked here @ https://www.twilio.com/pricing.
4. Transactional emails – We generally use services like Sendgrid, Mailgun or Amazon SES for sending transactional emails. All these services usually have a free tier that should hold good for new apps.
5. SSL – We secure all our apps via a Wildcard SSL certificate that secures all sub domains for a particular domain name. This is important for security. A pretty affordable place to get one will be here @ https://www.ssl2buy.com/alphassl-wildcard.php
6. Cloudflare – We use Cloudflare as a firewall and also often to manage the domain. It has a free tier and that usually is good enough. If under attack like maybe a DDOS attack , Cloudflare can prove to be a pretty solid first layer of defence.
7. Google Map API – We use google map api’s for tagging locations with a post and also for sharing locations inside the chat. A google map API key with billing enabled is required to use this service.
8. Apple Developer Account – An apple developer account is required to host the app under your name. An account costs $99/year. Individual accounts are pretty easy to create but if you need the app to show under your company name then you will need to apply for a company account and that requires a DUNS number that you will need to first acquire to get listed as a developer with apple. Follow steps here @ https://learn.buildfire.com/en/articles/477266-how-to-create-an-apple-developer-account-and-enroll-in-the-program
9. Google Play Developer Account – A google play developer account is required to host an app under your name / your company’s name on the Android play store. This costs $25 one time. You can get a google play developer account here @ https://play.google.com/apps/publish/signup/#EnterDetailsPlace.
10. Domain Name – A domain name is required to host the API’s / website etc. A domain name can be bought from sources like GoDaddy etc. Price of a domain name really depends on its availability etc.