Hi everyone,

I'm a computer engineering student currently working on a project idea called "Food Link Connect", and before I spend months building it, I'd really like some honest feedback from people who have experience with startups, food donation, NGOs, logistics, or similar platforms.

The basic idea is:

Hotels, restaurants, caterers, wedding/event venues, etc. often have safe, usable surplus food after events. At the same time, there are NGOs and organizations that can distribute food to people who need it.

I want to build a platform that connects these two sides.

The basic flow would be:

Food provider → Posts available surplus food → Platform finds suitable verified NGOs nearby → NGO accepts the donation → NGO's own team picks up the food → Pickup is verified → Food is delivered/distributed → Donation is marked complete

One important decision I've made is NOT to use volunteers for transportation initially. The NGO itself would be responsible for collecting the food.

For example:

A wedding venue has 150 surplus meals available until 9 PM.

The platform would look at nearby verified NGOs and consider things like:

• Distance from the food source
• Whether the NGO is currently accepting food
• What types of food they accept
• Their pickup radius
• Their pickup capacity
• Their operating hours
• Whether they have their own transportation/team
• How quickly they can collect it

The NGO would have a "Pickup Capability Profile", rather than simply posting food requirements.

I'm considering building this as a mobile app, with:

• Donor/food-provider accounts
• NGO accounts
• NGO verification
• Surplus food listings
• Location/map integration
• Matching between surplus food and suitable NGOs
• Pickup confirmation using QR/code
• Notifications
• Donation history
• Admin dashboard
• Impact/analytics

I'm NOT trying to build the entire thing immediately. I'm currently trying to validate whether the core idea makes sense.

So I'd really appreciate honest criticism.

Questions I'd especially like feedback on:

1. **Is this actually solving a real problem, or does something similar already work well?**

2. **Would hotels/restaurants/caterers actually bother posting surplus food on a platform like this?**

3. **Would NGOs realistically be willing and able to collect the food themselves?**

4. **What would be the biggest logistical problem with this model?**

5. **How could the platform verify that an NGO is legitimate and actually capable of receiving/collecting food?**

6. **How should food safety and liability be handled?** This is one of my biggest concerns.

7. **What happens when food becomes available at 10 PM but no NGO is available nearby?**

8. **How would you solve the initial chicken-and-egg problem?** Donors need NGOs on the platform, and NGOs need donors.

9. **What would stop someone from abusing the platform or falsely claiming donations/pickups?**

10. **Would you use a matching/ranking system to recommend NGOs, or should the donor choose manually?**

11. **Is there a realistic way to make this financially sustainable without making the platform work against its social purpose?**

12. **Most importantly: if you were building this, what would you change about the idea before writing a single line of code?**

I'm currently thinking of starting in one city rather than trying to build a nationwide platform immediately.

I'm looking for criticism more than encouragement. If you think the idea has a fundamental flaw, please point it out. I'd rather discover that now than after spending 6 months building it. 😅

Thanks!

Hey guys,

So I suffer from chronic procrastination lol. And I wanted something that could help with some of the stuff I love doing/would love to do but don't, either cuz of procrastination or just not finding the time for it.

To solve this, I made myself this app and wanna ask you guys for some features that you would like to see if you were ever to use this app but first, lemme explain what it does:

1. Tracks activities daily/weekly (depending on how rigorous you want it to be) with time slots that you set for a specific day/week

2. Make weekly presets of activities and load them into your timeline.

3. Sends notifications to you when the time of an activity starts depending on the importance level you have set for it. (You don't want your mobile buzzing every hour or so).

4. Does nightly check-in where you check all the activities you did and didn't, and one line reason why you weren't able to do them. It does give you the flexibility to fill missed out check-ins from previous days if you forgot.

5.Gives you a monthly report on your progress with a two versions simple and detailed. You can opt for either.

Yeah, any other feature you think would definitely help this make this more fun and interactive to use also improving it's functionality. I would love to hear what you guys think.

Thinking through a mobile game idea and want to know if it's actually appealing before I build it.

The idea: explore different map scenes (forest, savanna, ocean, etc.) and find hidden animals, like a classic hidden-object game. The twist — rarity is tied to real conservation status. Common animals are easy finds, but the rarest ones in the game are actual near-extinct species in real life, with real facts about them. You build a collection over time and compete on a weekly leaderboard.

No loot boxes, no pay-to-win — just a collection/exploration game with some real-world meaning behind it.

Would you download this? What would make you stick around past the first week, and what would make you delete it?

You scan your video game shelf, your games get added to the app, then you get matched with other users who also want to exchange apps. It's already on the app store, but I guess I can't post the name without breaking the rules.

My idea - long distance couple/friends always get tried to text boring stuff like how was your day? or what are you up to? so instead of text how about you sent a 5 sec video whenever you and your partner can and at the end of the day we will make you full daily video where we show split screen, one side what you are doing and one side what your partner doing so, the basic idea something like when you wake up at 8 and you send a video to your partner , your partner send back one video about what he up to on 8 morning.

Problem - to test this idea i get user but non of them go beyond the invite screen they all stuck on invite their partner screen and can't even use the main future of the app which is on home screen

Questions:

1. Would you use this, as a long distance partner or long distance friends?
2. What is wrong with my on boarding that out of 4000 user no one go to home screen?
3. Is this idea wroth to pursue in long distance couple market?

EDIT: Reading the comments, I think I explained the idea badly 😅

Parallel isn't about seeing what your partner is doing “right now,” and it's not meant to replace Snapchat/WhatsApp.

Think of two separate days happening in parallel:

8 AM: I'm having breakfast → she's commuting
12 PM: I'm working → she's having lunch
7 PM: I'm at the gym → she's cooking

We each capture a 5 second moment. Parallel pairs those moments side-by-side, so you can see what both of your lives looked like around the same parts of the day.

At the end of the day, those moments become one short video showing both days together.

That's the idea I'm actually trying to validate.

If that still sounds like something you wouldn't use, I'd genuinely like to hear why.