Route planner for delivery drivers

Three things converged in the last 12 months. One: vision-LLM pricing dropped to where reading a phone screen of stops costs sub-penny inference, so multi-app aggregation no longer needs a platform-side integration. Two: the consumer-priced route planner category proved out — Routing24 went free (Show HN, Oct 2024, validates the demand), Routerra hit $12/mo, Circuit/Spoke holds at $9.99 — but every one of them still routes ONE app at a time. Three: multi-apping became the dominant earnings strategy on the major gig-driver subs (r/doordash_drivers 941K members, the 'BEGGING you to start multi-apping' post hit 86 upvotes/204 comments in Oct 2025 with a $20/hr → $35/hr claim). The drivers are already multi-apping; the tooling hasn't caught up. The lane closes in 12-18 months when Circuit or Routerra ships a cross-app stop merge — or sooner if a YC batch picks it up. Move now.

Market gap

Two cleanly separated tiers exist today. Fleet/dispatch routers (Onfleet $619-$1,349/mo, Routific $150/mo for 1K orders, Route4Me enterprise quotes, OptimoRoute $35-$44/driver/mo) sell to operations teams pushing routes to drivers — their unit economics break below $30/driver/mo. Consumer single-app planners (Circuit/Spoke $9.99, Routerra $12 for 200 stops, RouteMate and MyWay with free tiers) sell to the individual driver — but every one of them routes ONE app's stops at a time. The gap is the multi-apping driver: 1.5M+ US gig workers running two or three of DoorDash, UberEats, Amazon Flex, Instacart and Shipt simultaneously, mentally interleaving stops in real time. Nothing on the market merges those stop lists into one optimized run. A $14/mo AI co-pilot built for that exact behavior — cross-app stop ingestion via phone-screen OCR, tip-aware ordering, hands-free 'next stop' voice — has no direct competitor and a SERP saturation score of 1.9/10 on the head term.

Week 1-2: ship iOS-first app — phone-screen capture API + GPT-4o vision OCR for DoorDash/UberEats/Amazon Flex stop lists, Mapbox Optimization API, Apple Pay billing on $14/mo single SKU, CarPlay voice. Week 3: free 'Multi-App Stacking Playbook' lead magnet, launch threads in r/doordash_drivers, r/AmazonFlexDrivers, r/UberEATS with founder DMs to active posters in the recent multi-apping threads. Week 4-8: tip-weighted reorder v1, weekly DM cohort calls, Android via Capacitor, referral credit ($5/mo off per referred subscriber). Month 3: paid Google ads on 'route planner for delivery drivers' and 'multi app route planner', YouTube creator sponsorships (Pedro DoorDash Santiago, Your Driver Mike, GigDad), scale to 500 paying users.