Local restaurants in Astana and Almaty cook more than they sell. Ules lets you rescue that fresh, surplus food at the end of the day — up to 70% off menu prices.
Ules started in Astana with a small idea: restaurants often end the day with perfectly good surplus food, and people would happily enjoy it for a fraction of the price. The catch was always logistics — how do you connect them, fast?
So we built an app. Restaurants list their surprise bags. You see what's near you, reserve one, and pick it up before they close. Everyone gains something — money saved, food rescued, a little less carbon. It's a small loop, but it adds up.
Open the app, see what nearby restaurants have rescued today, pick a bag, and walk over to collect it. You usually pay between ₸600 and ₸2,000 for food that originally cost two or three times that.
Listing takes a minute. Set up a surprise bag, pick a collection window, and new customers will walk through your door for the fresh food you have left at the end of service. We handle payment and customer comms.
The home feed shows what's available today, sorted by distance and pickup window. Closing-soon bags are flagged so you don't miss them.
Every bag has a clear pickup window, location, and collection instructions. No mystery about where to go or when.
Every bag you collect adds up — meals rescued, tenge saved, grocery trips skipped. Set your own goals and watch them tick up.
Eleven of the most-visited screens, abstracted. The real app uses photos and live data.
If you cook fresh food daily and have more than you sell, Ules can help. Set up takes about ten minutes. You decide what goes into each bag, how many, and when customers collect.
We're already partnered with bakeries, plov houses, grill spots, cafés, and small bistros across Astana and Almaty.
See the partner side →We're builders, designers, and food people. We started Ules because we wanted fresh, delicious meals to find someone to enjoy them — even at the very end of the day — and felt it was a problem worth solving with software.
Co-built every piece of Ules — from the consumer app to the backend that connects restaurants with hungry neighbors. Designs the data model, ships features by night, tests them in Astana kitchens by day.
Co-built the software powering Ules end-to-end — the mobile app, the partner dashboard, the maps. Obsessed with making every tap feel obvious and every restaurant onboarding take under ten minutes.
Brings Ules into the real world — signs up restaurants, negotiates partnerships, and makes sure every surprise bag finds its customer. Knows every café manager from Almaty to Astana by first name.
