We did not build another delivery app.
Nigeria does not have a shortage of food, or of people who want to sell it. What it has is a gap between a kitchen with a pot of jollof and the person two streets away who is hungry right now. WhatsChow closes that gap in the app both of them already have open — in every state that has a kitchen worth ordering from.
How we got here
The problem
Four delivery apps installed, none of them opened this month. Meanwhile the kitchen down the road takes orders on WhatsApp with a notepad and no way to get paid up front.
The bet
If the conversation is already happening on WhatsApp, the commerce should happen there too — search, menu, checkout and status, all in one thread.
Where we are
Live across Nigeria with verified kitchens in every region we have been asked for, an assistant that handles Pidgin and voice notes, and payments settled before anyone starts cooking.
Next
Depth rather than width — more kitchens per town, live rider tracking, and vendor analytics. All three are already in build.
App required, and it is already installed
States plus the FCT — anywhere a kitchen is verified
Languages the assistant handles natively
Kitchens reviewed by a person before listing
Three things we are not willing to trade
Meet people where they already are
The best interface is the one already installed and already open. We add a phone number to a habit instead of asking for a new one.
The kitchen keeps the customer
Vendors carry their own name, their own photos, their own rating. We are the rail, not the brand the food arrives under.
Trust is a product decision
Every kitchen is reviewed by a person before it goes live, every payment is verified before a pot goes on, and rejections come with a reason.
The one-pot kitchen counts as much as the restaurant
Most food in Nigeria is sold by people with no website, no card terminal and no interest in learning software. If the whole job can be done by replying to a message, the smallest kitchen on the street can compete with the biggest one.
Talk to a person
No ticket portal. Mail us, or start a WhatsApp thread — the same one customers order in.
Ready when you are.
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