Should I Build It Should I Build It
12 Aug 2025
Android Food & Drink

delivery food app for management restaurant in Viet Nam and Content ...

...management

Confidence
Engagement
Net use signal
Net buy signal

Idea type: Freemium

People love using similar products but resist paying. You’ll need to either find who will pay or create additional value that’s worth paying for.

Should You Build It?

Build but think about differentiation and monetization.

Your are here

You're entering a crowded but active market with your food delivery app and content management system for restaurants in Vietnam. The good news is that with 13 similar products, we have high confidence in understanding this space. This also means you'll face competition. The high engagement (average 13 comments on similar products) suggests there's a real interest in solutions for restaurants. However, the core challenge of the 'Freemium' category is that people love using these apps, but they resist paying. To succeed, you'll need to identify a clear value proposition that restaurants are willing to pay for, which means differentiating yourself from the many existing options.

Recommendations

  1. First, focus on understanding the specific needs of restaurants in Vietnam. Conduct user research to identify their pain points with existing delivery platforms and content management systems. Are they struggling with high commission fees? Is it hard to manage menus and promotions across multiple platforms? This understanding will guide your development efforts.
  2. Given the 'Freemium' categorization, identify which restaurants would get the most value from a free version of your platform. For example, smaller restaurants with limited marketing budgets could benefit from basic content management features. Use this to create a tiered pricing model, where higher tiers offer enhanced functionalities.
  3. Explore offering premium features that cater to larger or more tech-savvy restaurants. This might include advanced analytics, personalized marketing campaigns, or direct integration with popular Vietnamese payment gateways. Focus on features that demonstrably increase revenue or reduce operational costs for the restaurant.
  4. Consider charging teams rather than individuals. Larger restaurant chains might be willing to pay for a platform that streamlines operations across multiple locations. Your content management system can be tailored to enable chain-wide menu updates or promotion management. This is a very clear way to differentiate yourself!
  5. Offer personalized help or consulting services to restaurants that need assistance with setting up their online presence or optimizing their delivery operations. This could involve training staff on how to use the platform effectively or providing marketing advice to attract more customers. The RestoApp criticism was confusing onboarding, so this is a VERY high leverage activity.
  6. Test different pricing approaches with small groups of restaurants before launching your platform to the wider market. Experiment with different pricing tiers, features, and payment options to determine what resonates best with your target audience. Pay special attention to the value proposition of the free version and make sure there's enough of a benefit for restaurants to upgrade.
  7. Review feedback from similar products, noting the concerns about differentiation, confusing onboarding (RestoApp), and the viability of business models (I've updated my food delivery repo). Address these issues proactively in your development process.
  8. Given that there are numerous solutions in the market, focus on making your platform user-friendly and easy to navigate, especially for restaurants that may not be tech-savvy. Provide excellent customer support and be responsive to user feedback. The comments indicate that this is very important.
  9. Given SnapMenu only got a request to specify locations, and MealPlanner only received a request for restaurant ratings, this is a very wide open field for you to focus on core features. So make sure you build a stable core before branching out.

Questions

  1. What unique aspect of Vietnamese cuisine or restaurant culture can your platform leverage to differentiate itself from global food delivery apps?
  2. How will you ensure that your content management system is tailored to the specific needs of Vietnamese restaurants, considering factors such as language support, local payment gateways, and popular social media platforms?
  3. Given that many restaurants are not tech savvy, how will you make sure you can not only onboard them, but have them stay on your platform and generate revenue by using your tool on a weekly basis, which requires that they get daily active value?

Your are here

You're entering a crowded but active market with your food delivery app and content management system for restaurants in Vietnam. The good news is that with 13 similar products, we have high confidence in understanding this space. This also means you'll face competition. The high engagement (average 13 comments on similar products) suggests there's a real interest in solutions for restaurants. However, the core challenge of the 'Freemium' category is that people love using these apps, but they resist paying. To succeed, you'll need to identify a clear value proposition that restaurants are willing to pay for, which means differentiating yourself from the many existing options.

Recommendations

  1. First, focus on understanding the specific needs of restaurants in Vietnam. Conduct user research to identify their pain points with existing delivery platforms and content management systems. Are they struggling with high commission fees? Is it hard to manage menus and promotions across multiple platforms? This understanding will guide your development efforts.
  2. Given the 'Freemium' categorization, identify which restaurants would get the most value from a free version of your platform. For example, smaller restaurants with limited marketing budgets could benefit from basic content management features. Use this to create a tiered pricing model, where higher tiers offer enhanced functionalities.
  3. Explore offering premium features that cater to larger or more tech-savvy restaurants. This might include advanced analytics, personalized marketing campaigns, or direct integration with popular Vietnamese payment gateways. Focus on features that demonstrably increase revenue or reduce operational costs for the restaurant.
  4. Consider charging teams rather than individuals. Larger restaurant chains might be willing to pay for a platform that streamlines operations across multiple locations. Your content management system can be tailored to enable chain-wide menu updates or promotion management. This is a very clear way to differentiate yourself!
  5. Offer personalized help or consulting services to restaurants that need assistance with setting up their online presence or optimizing their delivery operations. This could involve training staff on how to use the platform effectively or providing marketing advice to attract more customers. The RestoApp criticism was confusing onboarding, so this is a VERY high leverage activity.
  6. Test different pricing approaches with small groups of restaurants before launching your platform to the wider market. Experiment with different pricing tiers, features, and payment options to determine what resonates best with your target audience. Pay special attention to the value proposition of the free version and make sure there's enough of a benefit for restaurants to upgrade.
  7. Review feedback from similar products, noting the concerns about differentiation, confusing onboarding (RestoApp), and the viability of business models (I've updated my food delivery repo). Address these issues proactively in your development process.
  8. Given that there are numerous solutions in the market, focus on making your platform user-friendly and easy to navigate, especially for restaurants that may not be tech-savvy. Provide excellent customer support and be responsive to user feedback. The comments indicate that this is very important.
  9. Given SnapMenu only got a request to specify locations, and MealPlanner only received a request for restaurant ratings, this is a very wide open field for you to focus on core features. So make sure you build a stable core before branching out.

Questions

  1. What unique aspect of Vietnamese cuisine or restaurant culture can your platform leverage to differentiate itself from global food delivery apps?
  2. How will you ensure that your content management system is tailored to the specific needs of Vietnamese restaurants, considering factors such as language support, local payment gateways, and popular social media platforms?
  3. Given that many restaurants are not tech savvy, how will you make sure you can not only onboard them, but have them stay on your platform and generate revenue by using your tool on a weekly basis, which requires that they get daily active value?

  • Confidence: High
    • Number of similar products: 13
  • Engagement: High
    • Average number of comments: 13
  • Net use signal: 3.3%
    • Positive use signal: 7.5%
    • Negative use signal: 4.2%
  • Net buy signal: -3.1%
    • Positive buy signal: 0.6%
    • Negative buy signal: 3.6%

This chart summarizes all the similar products we found for your idea in a single plot.

The x-axis represents the overall feedback each product received. This is calculated from the net use and buy signals that were expressed in the comments. The maximum is +1, which means all comments (across all similar products) were positive, expressed a willingness to use & buy said product. The minimum is -1 and it means the exact opposite.

The y-axis captures the strength of the signal, i.e. how many people commented and how does this rank against other products in this category. The maximum is +1, which means these products were the most liked, upvoted and talked about launches recently. The minimum is 0, meaning zero engagement or feedback was received.

The sizes of the product dots are determined by the relevance to your idea, where 10 is the maximum.

Your idea is the big blueish dot, which should lie somewhere in the polygon defined by these products. It can be off-center because we use custom weighting to summarize these metrics.

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