Your Home for Home-Cooked Meals
The highest standard is home.
A peer-to-peer marketplace that lets verified neighbors sell home-cooked meals to their community.
Our Answer
We are not disrupting food. We are reclaiming it.
Ordinary is a peer-to-peer marketplace that lets verified neighbors sell home-cooked meals to their community. Instead of going out, the best food in your neighborhood comes to you.
Turning the daily home-cooked meal into a premium utility.
How It Works
From kitchen to hatch in three simple steps
Browse
Guests explore Helpings from verified Hosts in their neighborhood, with full ingredient transparency.
Reserve
Guests reserve a Helping from a Batch with a strict pickup window, respecting the Host’s time.
Pick Up at the Hatch
GPS-pinned instructions guide Guests to the exact hand-off location — porch, gate, or driveway.
Built on Trust
The Three Pillars of Trust
Every meal on Ordinary is backed by transparency, community verification, and a reliability guarantee.
The Transparent Hearth
Radical kitchen transparency.
- Verified photos of every cooking space
- Eco-friendly containers with tamper-evident seals
- Mandatory allergen ledgers for every Helping
The Vouched Network
A vouch is worth more than a star rating.
- Secure background & identity verification
- The ‘First Plate’ initiation for new Hosts
- Public Vouches from real neighbors build trust
The Guaranteed Hand-Off
Flawless logistics & reliability.
- GPS-pinned Hatch locations for exact pickup
- Instant refunds if food is missing or cold
- Strict time-locked pickup windows for freshness
Our Language
Ordinary speaks its own language
Building a category of one through proprietary terminology.
The Host
The verified neighbor cooking the food.
Not “Seller”The Guest
The neighbor purchasing the meal.
Not “User”The Helping
The individual portion.
Not “Order”The Batch
The total amount prepared.
Not “Inventory”The Hatch
The physical pickup spot.
Not “Location”The Stewards
The community resolution team.
Not “Support”Hyper-Local Strategy
We don’t launch nationally. We launch on your block.
Proving the model in Boston, MA before scaling.
The Founding Fifty
Recruit 50 high-quality local cooks (PTA parents, hobbyists) and subsidize their first batch.
The Sunday Supper Launch
Launch on Sunday evenings — the historic time for family meals and weekly prep.
The “Empty Pot” Scarcity
It is better to sell out in 10 minutes. Scarcity drives the narrative of high trust.
Front Porch Hatch
Pickup window: 5:30 - 6:00 PM
The Vision
A world where every neighborhood feeds itself.
Ordinary is more than an app. It is a movement to restore the oldest, most reliable standard of human sustenance: the daily, home-cooked meal shared among neighbors.
We envision a future where every block has its own beloved Hosts, and families eat better, together.
The modern food industry is obsessed with the extraordinary. Ordinary is the antidote.
Become a Founding Host or Guest
The food revolution starts on your street. The highest standard is home.
Be part of the Founding Fifty.
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