Has Anyone Built a Food Delivery App with Bubble?

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Hi everyone,

I’m considering Bubble for a food delivery app project and wanted to learn from anyone who has built something similar.

The app would include customer ordering, restaurant management, delivery tracking, and online payments. Before I start, I’d love to hear about real-world experiences.

A few questions:

  • Is Bubble suitable for building a production-ready food delivery app?
  • How well does Bubble handle workflows with multiple user roles (customers, restaurants, and delivery partners)?
  • What’s the best way to implement real-time order status updates?
  • Have you used any Bubble plugins or APIs for maps, payments, or notifications that you’d recommend?

I’d really appreciate any advice, examples, or lessons learned from your own Bubble projects.

Thanks in advance!

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There are a lot of templates for people that have built something similar. You can easily see what they did to try to make it work.

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I’ve built food delivery apps for clients. One area that is tricky is real time driver location. Otherwise, Bubble is great for such a platform.

For map plugin I used leafy maps, all other integrations were api integrations.

And bubble is great for multiple user types.

If you start building and have any implementation questions post on forum as most of what you’ll be building is pretty straightforward.

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Yes. quite a few actually.
Bubble can do all of it - but like any stack choice, there are pros and cons.

It depends on your specific situation. The real questions are:

  • Are you going to build it yourself?
  • What your build and (very importantly) monthly maintenance budgets are
  • Whether you’re aware of what Bubble can and can’t do

I’ve seen patterns suggesting that these matter more than how much it costs each month etc.

In my experience, Bubble is great to get started and have an MVP, but you might need to move to custom code for better map functionalities and smoother UX, especially when you get a few users.

The apps I worked with started on Bubble and moved off it later as they turned into native mobile apps. Native apps let you access device functionalities way better - locations, notifications, compass, etc.

One option you have is going straight to Native mobile. Bubble offers it.
I’m personally not a fan of Bubble for mobile native tbh, but it’s an option.