This here is actually brilliant. I can relate because when I first came to Lagos, I was squatting with some boys on campus, and I knew only two places to eat, which got old after a while.
Someone actually went and did the hard work of inventorising all the food combinations that food vendors in Unilag offer and has stuck it all into an ordering platform.
It’s not the prettiest UI, but I’m a bit impressed at how granular and customisable the whole thing is. You can order another pack of food, and tweak its constituent elements, down to the drink you want, Chipotle style.
All we need now is for a Unilag student or someone who lives inside to come and test this, tell us if it actually works as advertised, as well as review the experience. The devil is in the details. But speaking of the details, this dude really knows what he’s doing…
As you can see, the site doesn’t work when you can’t order food…it might seem obvious, but people around here don’t pay attention to that sort of thing. AND if you look at the opening hours section, you’ll see that you can’t order food before 10am on Thursdays. That’s because businesses in Unilag do not open until 10am on that day of the week – mandatory environmental sanitation.
He definitely put a lot of thought into it. I hope the execution is as detailed as the website. Very well thought out. Any people around UNILAG on Radar?
I finished from UNILAG last year. It is frustrating buying food from your favorite resturant especially during lunch hour. I remember using a shop called shop 10 as a case study in my queuing theory seminar. Saving yourself that stress for #100 is super cool. The RunAM guys are a group of UNILAG CS guys. I will be glad to see UNILAG become to Yabacon Valley what Stanford is to Silicon Valley. I also hope they have a good delivery time and keep improving on it.
There is something similar already at University of Ibadan. But I like the idea that students are now doing real stuffs. I even hope this is not a final year project
I’m an ex-unilag student. I happened to be on campus yesterday and used the two food delivery services on campus, Runam.com.ng and Shibi.com.ng to order for food from the same shop on campus. Runam delivered my food in 32mins while Shibi delivered in 23mins. Runam looks like they are more interested in technology and I cant blame them for that because I think that is the best I expect from four CS students. Shibi processes orders for food using their website, calls and text messages. Their riders were looking more presentable in terms of dressing and they charge just #50 extra which is I know is their selling point. Ultimately, I was impressed by the services provided by both startups and wish them well.
I am impressed by runam.com.ng’s web interface, though i think there could be a different way to place the sections. Its simple and a visitor knows what he is required to do, gets it done and this is perfect. They should also make it easy for a visitor to see their offline time.
I think shibi.com.ng’s web interface is different, a bit populated with colors, images aren’t clear (blurred) and a user would have to think a little before placing an order. Definitely could be better…
Would like to know more about experiences of their customers.
Enough people on here have already said it’s a good solution. I didn’t dispute it. You can’t improve if you don’t acknowledge and fix your flaws. As a user and a designer, the layout confused me when I first saw it. Kindly hop off.
it is obvious www.runam.com.ng focused more on the technology than the logistics. I would prefer to use the service of www.shibi.com.ng anytime I come around unilag. IT people keep forgetting that technology is just 1% while logistics is about 99% for any product/service. Runam.com.ng, it is a no from me.
@Bidemi, what made you conclude that? what are the facts that make it “Obivious” they didn’t focus on logistics too?
Just cos www.runam.com.ng was slow on one delivery doesn’t make their logistics and service entirely bad.
A friend of mine in Jaja recently told me he paid half the price (after they pleaded that he doesn’t choose not to pay at all) for his meal because www.shibi.com.ng was about 30 minutes late, but that doesn’t mean they have bad logistics too.
Mistakes happen fam, no one is a 100%.
Lets give them both a chance since they’re both new.
I’ve used shibi.com.ng never tried runam.com.ng. shibi is fast, trust me on this one. my friends use runam. as many that have used it has have complained. delivery in an hour and even one of em said she made an order and till this present hour, she still hasnt received it meanwhile they acknowledged receipt of her order. also how many of you as students spent 150 naira without nothing in your plate. in my opinion, shibi is fast, well organised, wonderful logistics, perfect delivery price. kunle is also heard that a shibi guy is from CS.
Really, this post was about runam.com.ng and all of a sudden people are coming outta nowhere subtly slandering it and praising the other.
I sense something is up though; some kinda subliminal intent, as most of you dropping em subtle comments have never even used runam.com.ng before.
I was just about to say this. @primar joined 4 hours ago and this was the first thing he posted on. Healthy competition guys… let your customers decide.
