Why we started NearbyMe

Every major delivery app that has launched in Nigeria over the last several years has followed roughly the same rollout order: Lagos, then Abuja, then Port Harcourt, then — eventually, maybe — everywhere else. Warri keeps landing in "everywhere else."

Waiting for someone else to build it

We waited for a while too, assuming one of the bigger apps would eventually expand coverage this far. It didn't happen, and the reason became pretty clear once we looked closely: covering a new city well means understanding its streets, its checkpoints, its actual demand patterns — and that's much harder to do from a head office in another city than it looks from the outside.

So we stopped waiting.

Built here, not adapted for here

NearbyMe isn't a generic delivery template with Warri place names dropped in. It's built around how ordering actually works here — the routes riders already know, the way local vendors already run their menus, and the trust that Trix QR has already built with restaurants in the area.

That's also why the delivery-code handoff exists: it's a small detail, but it directly answers a real, local concern — knowing your order actually reached the right hands, every time.

What's next

We're rolling out across Warri first, starting with the neighbourhoods where demand is clearest, and expanding from there as we learn. If you want to be part of that from day one, the waitlist is the best place to start.