Cafe Network

Why a platform

Most Israeli cafés either have no website or use a site builder. Those sites can look fine, but almost none meet the Israeli accessibility standard, IS 5568, and a site that fails it can be sued without anyone proving harm.

Building a separate site for each café wouldn't add up either: hosting and upkeep for every site would eat the price of building it. So I built one platform that runs every café's site. Adding a café means adding data, not copying code.

How it works

Each café gets its own address and design, but one Next.js app serves all of them. Every request is matched to a café, and the database only ever returns that café's rows. Postgres row-level security enforces this with 55 policies, and a test checks the isolation before every deploy.

Payments go through Cardcom, an Israeli payment provider that also issues the tax invoice. ImageKit stores and resizes photos. New orders reach the owner as a push notification and can print automatically in the kitchen.

commits in 10 days

6666

row-level security policies

5555

database migrations

2424

pages per café site

1616

Accessible by design

Instead of checking accessibility at the end, the platform makes the common mistakes impossible. Menus can't be uploaded as images, because screen readers can't read them. Every photo needs a text description, required by the dashboard, checked again by the server and finally enforced by the database itself.

The public pages went through an automated accessibility and color-contrast sweep, a keyboard-only pass and a screen reader simulation. Each café's site publishes an accessibility statement that says exactly what was tested.

What's next

The demo café is live at cafe-network.com. Next come the first real cafés, and a full test with a real screen reader before they launch.

What it does

• Online ordering

  Order ahead for a set pickup time, paid by card through Cardcom, with a tax invoice issued automatically.

• Order from the table

  Each table has a QR code that opens the menu already tied to that table.

• Loyalty punch card

  Customers earn by phone number online or at the till, and redeem either way.

• Events and RSVP

  Owners publish events, guests register, and the list exports to CSV.

• Kitchen tickets

  New orders print automatically and trigger a push notification to the owner's phone.

• Owner dashboard

  Menu, prices, allergens, hours and an ordering pause switch, with magic-link sign-in.

Built with

• Next.js 16
• React 19
• TypeScript
• Supabase
• Postgres RLS
• Cardcom
• ImageKit
• Web Push
• Vercel