Case Study

Award-winning food donation platform with mobile app, admin panel, and AI detection

DonateNotWaste is a final-year project built to reduce food waste by connecting donors, beneficiaries, and delivery riders through a mobile app and web admin panel, with donation workflows, delivery tracking, fundraising, alerts, reviews, and AI-based food detection.

Award-Winning Mobile AppFood Donation / Social Impact / Nonprofit Tech

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DonateNotWaste mobile app screens showing food donation workflows, user onboarding, donor and needy flows, and social impact platform UI

System Type

Mobile App / Web Admin Panel / AI Food Detection & Donation Workflow System

Industry

Food Donation / Social Impact / Nonprofit Tech

Focus

Award-Winning Mobile App

What we built

A practical system designed around real business workflows.

Final-year project built as a social-impact food donation platform with a mobile application and web admin panel. The system connects donors with surplus food to needy users, supports registered delivery riders for pickup and delivery, includes donation posts, delivery tracking, fundraising campaigns, communication workflows, notifications and alerts, ratings and reviews, help/support flows, admin monitoring, and AI-based food detection to support smarter donation handling.

Problems solved

● Surplus food from households, restaurants, and businesses is often wasted instead of reaching people who need it.
● Donors, beneficiaries, and delivery riders need a structured platform to coordinate food donation and delivery.
● Donation workflows require trust, alerts, tracking, admin monitoring, and clear role-based user journeys.

Solution delivered

● Built a mobile-first donation platform connecting donors, needy users, and registered delivery riders.
● Created workflows for food posting, requesting, delivery tracking, fundraising, notifications, communication, reviews, and admin monitoring.
● Integrated AI-based food detection concepts and real-time alerts to support smarter donation handling and reduce food waste.

Results & outcomes

Built to support users, operations, and business growth.

● Secured 1st position at University EXPO for innovation, execution, and social impact.

● Demonstrated mobile app, admin panel, AI detection, donation, delivery, and fundraising workflows.

● Showcased a practical technology solution for food waste reduction and community support.

Key features

Main platform capabilities.

● Donor, needy, rider, and admin roles

● Food donation post workflow

● Delivery request and tracking

● Fundraising campaigns

● Notifications and real-time alerts

● AI-based food detection

● Ratings, reviews, and support flows

● Web admin panel monitoring

Backend

Node.jsExpress.jsMongoDBREST APIsAuthentication

Frontend

React NativeNext.jsReact.jsMobile UIAdmin Panel

Infrastructure

AI Food DetectionReal-time AlertsDelivery TrackingFundraisingNotificationsRole-based Workflows

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