Restaurant SaaS202603 / 06

Menuvyn

A QR-powered digital menu platform that gives restaurants an app-like ordering experience without downloads, commissions, or subscriptions.

Role

Founder & sole engineer — product, i18n, offline-first frontend

Stack

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Service workers
  • Edge caching

The problem

Delivery platforms take a commission on every order, and most digital-menu products replace that with a subscription. Restaurants operating on thin margins end up paying either way — and the diner still gets a PDF that pinches and zooms badly on a phone.

Approach

  1. 01Built the menu as an app-like surface that loads from a QR scan — no download, no account, no commission on the order.
  2. 02Made language a first-class axis rather than a translation layer: English, Sinhala and Tamil switch instantly, with the script rendering correctly at every breakpoint.
  3. 03Cached aggressively at the edge and offline, because restaurant Wi-Fi is unreliable and a menu that fails to load is worse than a laminated card.
  4. 04Kept the restaurant-side editor simple enough that a manager can update prices between services without training.

Outcome

  • Ordering experience with no downloads, commissions or subscriptions.
  • Trilingual menu with instant switching.
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