BA BistroApps Venue OS

From a restaurant owner to restaurateurs.

Restaurant software that starts with your real service pressure.

I built BistroApps because I got tired of hospitality software bills climbing while wages, rent, stock, and service pressure were already hard enough. The first 50 restaurants can trial the apps free while we shape the product with real operators.

50

restaurants trial free

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app surfaces in trial path

3

restaurants already trialed

The products have already been trialed in three restaurants over the last month. This is still early software, but it is being shaped around real venues, real staff, and real service problems.

BistroApps Platform portal app launcher preview

Platform app launcher captured through manager access with private details masked.

Why this exists

Built from inside hospitality, with a computer science toolkit.

Running restaurants teaches you exactly where software hurts: the bill, the double entry, the disconnected tools, and the admin waiting after a long service. My computer science background helped, but the AI era made it possible to build practical tools fast enough to matter.

One account

Platform handles venues, users, permissions, app access, and launches.

Real product feedback

The free trial group gives us real restaurant usage before charging.

Australian hospitality

The workflows are being built around local restaurant pressure, not generic SaaS demos.

Catalogue with restraint

Payroll and stock stay on the roadmap until they are ready. Screens is active for controlled setup while public rollout finishes.

How the free trial group works

Free first, useful first, honest always.

We want real restaurants using the tools, giving feedback, and shaping the product while we remove software pain. There is no price on this page yet because the first 50 restaurants are invited to trial the products free.

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Apply or talk to BistroApps about the apps you want to trial.

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We set up the products that make sense for your venue.

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You use the tools during real service and tell us what helps or gets in the way.

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Your feedback shapes what gets polished, simplified, or built next.

Updates

The project is actively moving.

BistroApps is being worked on in public. The homepage shows the latest eight shipped notes from the shared update record; the archive keeps the full history.

View all updates

2026-07-10 16:00 UTC

Walkie Android 1.1 is now available for device testing, with supervisor Duty Mode restoring authorized channels 1 through 6 and safer push-to-talk handling during app interruptions and backgrounding.

2026-07-07 03:02 AEST

Public product pages now use authenticated workflow screenshots for Platform, Booking, Walkie, SMS Campaigns, Roster, AI Receptionist, and Screens with private details masked.

2026-07-06

Updates now use a shared record source, the homepage shows the latest eight notes, and the public /updates archive keeps the full history.

2026-07-06

Screens is active for controlled setup with Platform SSO, signed venue context, media galleries, playback scheduling, monitoring, and analytics in the coordinated launch path.

2026-07-06

Screens has AUD 1/month and AUD 2/year price options with a 30-day trial path ready for coordinated venue launches. Live Stripe configuration and public self-serve rollout are still pending.

2026-06-29 18:31 UTC

Public website updated with product funnels, founder/first-50 trial messaging, screenshots, and the /founding-50-melbourne route.

2026-06-29 11:06 UTC

Walkie Android APK and single BistroApps-logo navigation update deployed; WebSocket smoke and APK hash passed.

2026-06-28 05:22 UTC

Walkie supervisor permissions and six-channel supervisor mode deployed; Platform permission metadata updated.

Want to try it in your restaurant?

Tell me what tools are hurting most. I will show you what BistroApps can help with now and what is still early.