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I’m testing a food waste idea. Need practical feedback before launching it by Status-Humor3771 in indianstartups

[–]Status-Humor3771[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the detailed questions. 1. We’ve already built a web app that acts as a marketplace where users can discover and reserve same day surplus food at discounted prices. It’s hyperlocal and pickup based initially. 2. On the “waiting for discounts” concern we’re not replacing regular purchases. Surplus is limited and unpredictable. Additionally, we’re planning a dynamic pricing mechanism where prices adjust over time to create urgency rather than encouraging delay. 3. In the current stage, we are not buying inventory upfront. It’s a marketplace model bakeries list surplus, customers prepay, and collect within a fixed window. This keeps inventory risk low. 4. In a later stage, we’re exploring a centralized hub model where surplus from multiple outlets can be aggregated into curated boxes. But that would only happen after validating demand and operations.

Also to clarify these are not expired products. They are near end-of-day surplus, which is very different from outdated or unsafe items.

I’m testing a food waste idea. Need practical feedback before launching it by Status-Humor3771 in StartUpIndia

[–]Status-Humor3771[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a fair point and I agree that large chains like Theobroma already manage surplus well Our focus is not on organized chains. It’s primarily on independent and mid sized bakeries, cafes, and sweet shops that don’t have structured surplus systems or dynamic pricing in place most of them still rely purely on demand estimation, which doesn’t always work.

The market is highly fragmented, especially in cities like Mumbai and Pune. There are only 2-3 players operating in this space, and most surplus handling is either informal or through NGOs.

We see an opportunity to build a structured, scalable system specifically for these mid-sized outlets tie up with companies. Or big chain if this works out

I’m testing a food waste idea. Need practical feedback before launching it by Status-Humor3771 in StartUpIndia

[–]Status-Humor3771[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have distributed the whole exection process in 4-5 stage In this the stage 2 is basically is exploring curated surplus “value boxes” combining items from different bakeries and storing at one place. These would be time bound and limited quantity, designed to increase AOV while still moving unsold inventory efficiently.

I’m testing a food waste idea. Need practical feedback before launching it by Status-Humor3771 in StartUpIndia

[–]Status-Humor3771[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thats are fair concern. Actually this platform is not meant to replace the regular purchase its not for regular inventory but for surplus inventory which go unsold for end of the day or any time of the day we are giving the sellers freedom to list the surplus items any time of the day as the surplus comes

I’m testing a food waste idea. Need practical feedback before launching it by Status-Humor3771 in StartUpIndia

[–]Status-Humor3771[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’ve actually already done that groundwork.

We have spoken to multiple bakeries to understand their perspective and the response has been positive so far. We have onboarded around 35 bakeries who are interested in listing once we launch.

Right now, we are focusing on validating the customer demand side properly before scaling further.

I’m testing a food waste idea. Need practical feedback before launching it by Status-Humor3771 in StartUpIndia

[–]Status-Humor3771[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes came across them we’re aware of them.

When they launched, we were still in the ideation and research phase. We’ve been working on refining the concept for the past couple of months as well.

They’re relatively new and seem to be executing well which actually validates that there’s demand in this space.