A campus food chat

Order makan like you'd text a friend. No menu walls.

Ondewei is a campus food platform built at UM. You type what you want, we parse it, you confirm before checkout, then a real student rider joins your chat until sampai.

lapar gila, ada apa-apa dari kafe masjid?
Hi 👋 We're Ondewei. Type your makan, check the card, confirm. Your rider joins this same chat after they accept.

What we ship

Order food. Chat with your rider. That's it.

No promo carousels. No dashboard chrome. No 6 tabs of categories you don't need. Just three things, done well: a chat that understands you, a confirmation step that respects you, and a rider who can actually talk to you.

How it works

Three messages. One order. One conversation.

01

01 · You

burger ayam 2, milo ais 1, KK4 sekarang
02

02 · Ondewei Team

Got it. Burger Ayam x2, Milo Ais x1. Delivery KK4, now. Check the card, edit if anything is off.
03

03 · Your rider

Hi! On the way to pick up from Kafe Masjid. Sampai dalam 8 min.

11,400

students on campus

~700

orders a day

250+

campus riders

RM1

system fee

What we believe

Four things we won't compromise on.

Chat is the homepage.

No category grids. No tabs. You type. We listen.

Confirm before checkout.

AI parses; you decide. We never place an order you did not see.

Riders are people.

They join your chat after they accept. You talk to them, not a tracking pin.

Campus-first economics.

Built around how students actually spend, not big-city assumptions.

The story

Ondewei started as Rider@UM, a concierge MVP run out of one campus, one phone, one founder.

Two years of taking orders by hand taught us how students actually order food: short messages, mixed BM and English, the same dish twice a week, "sampai mana?" every five minutes. The platforms didn't speak that language. So we built one that does.

We're a small team. Most of us live on or near campus. We use the product daily. When something breaks, you'll usually hear from us directly.

Mission

Make campus food ordering feel as easy as texting a friend, while keeping student riders and local cafes at the centre of the economics.

Vision

Be the default ordering layer for every Malaysian university, owned by the campuses that use it, not extracted from them.

The people

Five humans, one campus, daily contact with riders and cafes.

campus-native

Portrait of Aiman Dhaifullah, Founder, CEO at Ondewei

Aiman Dhaifullah

Founder, CEO

Spent two years running the Concierge MVP before starting Ondewei. Still talks to riders every week.

Portrait of Pravin Raj, CTO at Ondewei

Pravin Raj

CTO

Owns the product and the stack. Keeps the chat fast and the checkout obvious.

Portrait of Zaharudin Khan, Marketing at Ondewei

Zaharudin Khan

Marketing

Builds campus traction without resorting to spam, banners, or promo pop-ups.

Portrait of Padma, Operations at Ondewei

Padma

Operations

Keeps deliveries smooth across hostels, dorms, and class schedules.

Portrait of Hakim, Engineering at Ondewei

Hakim

Engineering

Builds the things the product depends on. Quietly.

What's next

2026, one quarter at a time.

  1. Q1 2026

    Public beta

    Cleaner ordering flow. Real customers. Real riders.

  2. Q2 2026

    Vendor integrations

    Full menus, UM cafes onboarded, merchant tools.

  3. Q3 2026

    Live location + payments

    Map view for riders. Payment gateway. Less guessing.

  4. Q4 2026

    Other campuses

    Same model, more universities across Malaysia.

Say hi

Want to talk?
Or bring Ondewei to your campus?

Email is fastest. WhatsApp also works. We're a small team so it'll be one of us, not a ticket queue.

Ondewei. Order like Telegram. Checkout safely. Chat with your rider.