App/tech business of the week ~ Feedmee

What ~ Feedmee is a food discovery app, the ‘Tinder for food’. Users swipe through photos of food until they find what they want.

Where ~ Apple App Store or iTunes or www.feedmeeapp.com/

Who ~ Tyler Spooner, co-founder and head of marketing; Brenda Lai, co-founder and head of design; Stuart Kidd, head of app development; and Marcus Holmes*, technical adviser and mentor.

Quote ~ “We wanted to make food finding more visual, because when you're hungry you want to see photos of real food not restaurant names."

-Tyler Spooner

$ ~ The co-founders have invested $50,000 into Feedmee and are looking to raise an additional $200,000.

Feedmee App launched in Perth on September 13 and has made it into the top 50 iTunes charts for free food and drink apps in Australia.

The restaurant industry in Australia is worth over $18 billion, with 25,000 restaurants. Feedmee aims to reach 400 paying clients by the end of 2017 Australia wide, which represents 1.6 per cent of the total market.

The aim is to resell items to our users at a 20 per cent discount. A future app version will include an in-app payment system and a bookings capability. The booking referral fee will become an additional income stream.

Feedmee launched on September 13 2016 is ranked #1 by startup date on the BNiQ Startup list.

* Marcus Holmes writes a fortnightly column for Business News.