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15/01/2026

We are looking for a Sales & Outreach Specialist to launch a personalized cold outreach. Remote, working with B2B clients from the USA/Canada in food technology and retail. For more information DM us

13/11/2025

How do you turn AI from hype into real business value?
Here’s a step-by-step guide that walks you through when AI is actually needed, prepping your data, building MVPs, and integrating models into workflows 👉

Meta description: Apply AI effectively in your business with practical steps for startups and product teams. Check actionable guidance to minimize risks and achieve measurable results.

06/11/2025

Building everything inside? Or ready to partner up?
Here’s some practical guidance on when an outsourced development team is the right fit — so you avoid the “we built it but no one uses it” trap. Read it here 👉

Learn criteria for outsourcing selection: communication, quality control, pricing models and onboarding. Use this checklist to reduce vendor risk and speed delivery.

04/11/2025

We helped Sizl’s dark-kitchen network scale fast – by rebuilding their apps, introducing separate rider/driver workflows, and harmonising the entire ecosystem via a shared codebase.

Check out how we enabled a Chicago-based food-delivery platform to move from back-end complexity to operational clarity and rapid growth.

How we built a cross-platform rider app for a dark kitchen in 2.5 weeks: React Native, real-time order sync, offline support, faster delivery, investor-ready product.

18/09/2025

43% of customers say one bad service experience is enough to leave forever. In foodtech, that often comes down to tech breaking when demand spikes.

Our latest podcast explores the most common killers of foodtech apps — from missing offline-first architecture to poor load testing — plus the one failure we bet you didn’t see coming.

Catch it here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1mRYlmsay6JgeWU185hwMJ?si=yU2z-DrpQNWIynnXj6vp0Q

12/09/2025

18,000 reviews processed. 600 hours saved. Four months of work freed.

This is how AI transformed a ticketing system from chaos control into a real feedback engine. Sentiment detection, tagging, draft replies — all backed by human quality control.

The result: faster responses, fewer bad reviews, and a support team finally focusing on real player issues.

Here’s how we built it:
https://dev.family/blog/article/how-we-saved-600-hours-of-support-work-with-ai?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=sharing -feedback-matters

01/09/2025

Admin panels built with CRUD generators are useful at the start, but may turn out a roadblock once reviews, reschedules, and growth kick in. Ever been there?

With Admiral, we built booking systems that adapt — calendars, custom UIs, even overlapping staff workflows. No more losing time (or customers) because the system couldn’t keep up.

Full breakdown here: https://dev.family/blog/article/extendable-crud-how-to-build-flexible-admin-interfaces-with-admiral?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharing

01/09/2025

Our first podcast is out! 🚀

We explore the trade-off between good off-the-shelf solutions and bad custom development — and why reviews often tell you more than dashboards. Perfect for anyone in foodtech or restaurants wondering how not to burn money on the wrong tech too early.

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Ll5QnFhGJryWh7Tb9RNyv?si=ipbuxH6hRH2znPUIU5aujA&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=podcast

Foodtech Playbook · Episode

19/08/2025

Most teams think admin panels = forms, tables, CRUD. But what happens when your users start asking for chat? Reviews make it clear: people expect more than data grids.

We decided not to plug in a third-party tool — instead, we built a real-time chat right inside Admiral. It turned out to be simpler, faster, and way more flexible than we imagined.

Curious how? Here’s the breakdown:
https://dev.family/blog/article/building-a-chat-inside-an-admiral-admin-panel?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=promotion

14/08/2025

90% of foodtech apps lose users within the first 3 months, and not because of competitors.
It’s the small technical oversights that kill them: crashing during a big sale, lagging on older phones, freezing when the Wi-Fi drops.

In our latest article, we share 5 deadly mistakes you can avoid + why user reviews are your early warning system before disaster hits.

📖Check this out before your next Friday night promo turns into a meltdown: https://dev.family/blog/article/5-ways-to-kill-a-foodtech-app-before-users-even-fall-in-love-with-it?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=dev-family&utm_content=5-ways-to-kill-a-foodtech-app-before-users-even-fall-in-love-with-it

08/08/2025

Weak signal? Server down? Your mobile app should not turn into a useless rectangle.

We built a local-first architecture using React Native + RxDB that keeps data alive offline and syncs automatically when the network’s back.

In production, it cut downtime by over 60% for one logistics client.

Full guide with architecture, code, and a surprising lesson on handling messy sync conflicts: https://dev.family/blog/article/how-to-build-local-first-apps-with-react-native-rxdb-architecture-and-examples?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=dev-family&utm_content=how-to-build-local-first-apps-with-react-native-rxdb-architecture-and-examples

06/08/2025

Tried making your Next.js app a PWA? It probably broke.
Cache updates don’t stick. Tabs show outdated content. And users get stuck refreshing forever.

We’ve been there — so we built a fix. next-pwa-pack gives you:
✅ Drop-in PWA functionality
✅ Offline mode that actually works
✅ Built-in dev tools for debugging cache issues

See how we use it: https://dev.family/blog/article/effortless-pwa-integration-in-nextjs-with-next-pwa-pack?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=dev-family&utm_content=effortless-pwa-integration-in-nextjs-with-next-pwa-pack