Ordersly
Ordersly — offline-first ordering for small restaurants
- Platform
- Cross-platform
- Role
- Solo developer
- Timeframe
- 2025 Q1–Q2
- React Native
- Expo
- Expo Router
- SQLite
- TypeScript
The Problem
Restaurant staff took orders on paper when the venue wifi dropped, then re-keyed them later — wrong items, lost revenue, angry customers. Ordersly needed order capture that worked with zero connectivity and synced later without duplication.
The Solution
I built the app on Expo with a local SQLite queue as the source of truth. Orders are captured offline, stamped with a device-side ID, and reconciled with the server on reconnect using idempotent upserts.
Business Impact
The first restaurant went live six weeks after the kickoff. In the following quarter, order re-keying tickets dropped 45% and no order has been lost to connectivity since launch.
- concept → store
- 6 weeks
- offline order capture
- 100%
- order re-keying tickets
- −45%
What I did
I built the app on Expo with a local SQLite queue as the source of truth. Orders are captured offline, stamped with a device-side ID, and reconciled with the server on reconnect using idempotent upserts — so a flaky connection never duplicates or loses an order.
Results
The first restaurant went live six weeks after the kickoff. In the following quarter, order re-keying tickets dropped 45% and no order has been lost to connectivity since launch.
Have a project in mind?
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