US start-up Gigamunch wants to become the UberEats of home-cooked food.
Gigamunch aims to use an UberEats-like configuration, allowing users to browse and order food for delivery via a centralised app, to offer hungry users a home-cooked alternative to traditional, unhealthy fast food and the more expensive restaurant food UberEats has offered for delivery over recent months.
The app also hopes to offer users with specific dietary needs or cravings more ease and options in finding the specific food they want.
"People with allergies or very limited diets can search directly by their specific needs. No need to call and ask every restaurant in town anymore," says Gigamunch's Kickstarter page.
"Search what you're hungry for... no more debate trying to interpret wording on a menu," it adds.
Boon for chefs
Gigamunch also presents itself as a way for amateur chefs to monetise their creations and build a following without having to invest in setting up a restaurant.
"If you like making crafts, there's Etsy. For music, there's Soundcloud. For videos, there's YouTube. There needs to be something for cooking," Gigamunch's promotional video puts forward.
It also offers more professional chefs "creative expression" in being able to "make whatever [they] want. [They] don't have to follow a menu or make anything more than once," says the kickstarter. Like Uber did for drivers, the app also offers chefs the opportunity to choose their own working hours and "be [their] own boss".
Gigamunch is still in its funding stage, having raised $2 605 since it launched its crowd-funding campaign on 11 February. It will need to raise $10 000 by 12 March to launch in Nashville.
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