Technology Apr 16, 2026 · 2 min read

Foodie & Bandit the Regional Food Delivery Platform

First post here! Was having issues over at https://thatorjohn.hashnode.dev, so it's time for a change. You know what you can't easily find in Austin? Legit po boy bread. I found myself driving between Austin and the Mississippi Gulf Coast multiple times last year. It would have been a travesty to...

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by John Walley
Foodie & Bandit the Regional Food Delivery Platform

First post here! Was having issues over at https://thatorjohn.hashnode.dev, so it's time for a change.

You know what you can't easily find in Austin? Legit po boy bread.

I found myself driving between Austin and the Mississippi Gulf Coast multiple times last year. It would have been a travesty to not capitalize on the MS to TX drive and haul back foods like

What if you could scale that food haul up to earn some cash? I started playing around, and soon I'd built out (well Claude Code and Codex mainly) 95% of a multi-tenant preorder platform where runners could post a run where buyers could select from an inventory to be picked up at pickup location (think hotplate meets Doordash).

It's currently live at https://www.foodieandbandit.com

Runners can choose run visibility (public, unlisted, approved followers only), and are paid through Stripe Connect.

Here's a preview of the runner's view of inventory updating live during a purchase window.

Demo Mode

I was in the mood to try out new stuff so I let PostHost's wizard install itself. The PostHog wizard was able to install into my Next.js app pretty well. There was one problem, but I lost the specifics on a post that's stuck in some flagged Auto Moderation state on my previous blogging platform.

PostHog AI made it pretty easy to jumpstart dashboards.

PostHog

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