Easy Eats: For the Students, by the Students

Easy Eats started out as a passion project by a few college students, looking to make their fellow academic’s life easier on campus. The pioneers of the project started out by entering the Greenlight Maine competition. The competition focuses on entrepreneurs and innovators from all industries, and also encourages college students to present their ideas in order to get funding and get their startup up and running.

Before that however, Easy Eats reached out to the Ninjas Code team in order to help set up a solution that would cater to college students while still providing all of the features that most competitors have in the same space. They needed an app that would get early investors interested while providing a unique user experience that couldn’t be found in any of the competing apps. Thanks to the customizability of the Enatega solution, the process of building the perfect college food delivery app was made a lot smoother. That isn’t to say that there weren’t a few hurdles along the way; that’s just how software development works!

The Easy Eats team laid out the features and customizations that they needed for their unique food delivery application. As is standard with any development process, Ninjas Code began by gathering the requirements of the Easy Eats team and created a step by step process of implementing the required features. A clear roadmap was created in order to keep the development on track and to provide a clear vision of the timelines that the project was expected to follow.

The first thing that the Ninjas Code team needed to focus on was creating a clean and user friendly user experience for the college students who would not only be using the app to order food but also deliver it themselves. The design team from Ninjas Code crafted a sleek and intuitive user interface that was in line with the Easy Eats brand. With an easy user onboarding flow and a modern user experience, the team brought Easy Eats vision to life.

As the target audience for Easy Eats was mainly college students, the features had to be focused around them as well. The big one being the ability to order food directly to your dorm room with a few friends. Group ordering was added to the app to cater to college students who were sharing their dorm room with one or more of their fellow dorm mates.

The riders for the Easy Eats app were all going to be other students. This was crucial to make quick deliveries directly to dorm rooms as student drivers were expected to be knowledgeable about the college’s locations and could deliver the student’s orders directly to their dorm room without getting lost.

The Ninjas Code team made sure that the rider onboarding process for students was easy and straight-forward so that Easy Eats could onboard as many riders as quickly as possible.

The development team added a wallet feature for riders and restaurants to make the payment function automated while being easily accessible. Both the restaurants and riders could get their funds transferred to their accounts directly from their wallets almost immediately whenever they wanted.