Problem Solution Proof Team Contact
Piloted at Ashoka University

Campus
logistics,finally
sorted.

A student-run, door-to-door delivery service built for residential campuses — closing the daily gap between campus services and the student's room.

Fast-growing user base from pilot launch at Ashoka University
Highly repeat usage — most early users kept coming back
5–10 min average door-to-door delivery time, maintained throughout
Wide reach across student communities online

Pilot metrics — Ashoka University, 2024

The problem

A daily inconvenience students just live with.

Campus services exist. Getting to them — and back — eats into time and focus every single day. Small in any one moment. Never letting up.

01

Deliveries stop at the gate

Food, groceries, couriers — students must stop whatever they're doing and physically collect everything themselves, every time.

02

High-frequency, daily friction

Not a rare inconvenience. Every residential student faces this multiple times a week — it adds up to hours every month.

03

Worst when it matters most

Exams, illness, late nights, bad weather — exactly when leaving the room is hardest, there is still no solution on any Indian campus.

04

No dignified student earning

Structured, flexible, stigma-free income opportunities for students simply don't exist within Indian campuses today.

Small inconvenience × high frequency = a significant, daily quality-of-life gap for every residential student in India.
The solution

One platform.
Every delivery.
Door to door.

DormDash connects every campus service point to every student's room — handling the back-and-forth so students don't have to. Every order type, one platform, one Dasher network.

🚪

Gate → Dorm

Food, groceries and couriers collected from the gate and brought to the room

On-demand
👕

Laundry

Scheduled daily rounds for pickup and return

Scheduled
📦

Mailroom

Campus parcels delivered directly to the student's door

Scheduled
🛒

Tuck Shop

On-demand delivery from the campus store

On-demand
🏠

Within-Dorm

Hyper-local micro-logistics inside the building

On-demand
The app

One app.
Every service.
Always at hand.

DormDash runs on a fully functioning app covering every service — gate pickups, laundry, mailroom, tuck shop and more. All managed in one place, all delivered to your door.

Example order walkthrough — gate delivery
1

Pick the service

Open the app and tap Gate Delivery — your order is at the gate, ready to come to you.

2

Choose your gate

Tap the exact gate your order is arriving at. We route the right Dasher to the right entrance, instantly.

3

Set your room

Pick your dorm and room number once — saved for every future order. No retyping, ever.

4

Track it live

A Dasher is assigned in seconds. Watch them move toward you in real time, with a live ETA.

5–10 min Average delivery time
4 taps To complete an order
100% Door-to-door delivery
🧪 Ashoka University — pilot results

We've already done this.

Before approaching any other campus, we tested DormDash ourselves — real students, real orders, real Dashers — and here's what happened.

100+ Active customers acquired from pilot launch
4–5 wks From standing start to a running service
Majority Became regular, repeat users
5–10 min Average delivery time, maintained throughout
National demand signal
Our mission

Making student earning normal — starting in India.

📍

Destigmatising work, in India

We frame Dasher work as logistics management, not service labour — giving Indian students a flexible, respected way to earn alongside their studies.

🌍

New opportunities, abroad

As DormDash expands internationally, we're bringing the same model to campuses overseas — opening fresh student earning opportunities in new markets.

We're not just delivering packages. We're making it normal for students to earn.

The founders

We didn't research this problem. We lived it.

DormDash was built by students who experienced the gap firsthand — and decided to fix it.

Adhiraj Vohra

Adhiraj Vohra

Co-Founder

Veer Kothari

Veer Kothari

Co-Founder

Saumil Nihal

Saumil Nihal

Co-Founder

DormDash — a registered student-led startup

Get in touch

Interested in DormDash?

Whether you're a student, a university administrator, a journalist, or just curious — we'd love to hear from you.

Student looking to use DormDash
University wanting to bring us to campus
Press or journalist covering campus life
Investor interested in student logistics
Anything else — we're all ears
Email us at dormdash.au@gmail.com

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