Our Story

WPKitchen began with a simple question:

Q: How can I (Pomy) make a meaningful, practical contribution to the WordPress community?

I’ve been working with WordPress since version 2.8. It changed my life, helping me build a career, support my family, and connect with friends around the world.

In April 2023, the e-Earn program (a government-subsidized program to support freelancers) launched a co-working space in Faisalabad, Pakistan, welcoming over 100 freelancers, many of them WordPress developers. While the space was functional, kitchen services were still under development. Most freelancers either brought food from home, grabbed something costly nearby, or skipped lunch altogether.

Seeing this, I started a small experiment: home-cooked lunches delivered right to the workspace. For nearly a year, my wife lovingly prepared meals, and I personally delivered them to freelancers. We offered a 50% discount to make sure no one had to skip lunch. Soon, we were receiving 20–25 orders daily, and the idea took off. We didn’t have much — just a kitchen, some love, and the desire to make someone’s day a little easier.

When we were expecting our second child, I paused the service to care for my wife. Still, the desire to support freelancers with affordable meals never left me. During that time, many freelancers reached out, asking when the food service would resume. That’s when I began thinking bigger—why limit it to just one co-working space? Why not expand to the whole city? Or even across Pakistan and Asia? I started reflecting on how to keep delivering home-cooked lunches sustainably—without relying solely on my wife—so that the lunch program doesn’t have to pause again.

It sounded wild at the time — maybe even foolish — but I kept working on the idea. Slowly, I realized it is possible, especially by partnering with food delivery platforms like Foodpanda. It’s like DoorDash but works in Asia.
And so, WPKitchen was born — a subsidized lunch program built specifically for the WordPress ecosystem.

Here’s how it works:
— A WordPress freelancer applies for a monthly lunch
— If a sponsor is available, the request gets approved
— Registered WordPress freelancers pay only 30% of the lunch cost.
— Sponsors — often WordPress agencies or community supporters — cover the remaining 70%.
— Foodpanda handles delivery so lunches reach freelancers right at their desks.

It does four main things: it provides subsidies on lunches through sponsorships, shares home-cooked lunches with WordPress freelancers, encourages a co-working culture, and supports chefs working from home.

Now, we are on a mission to share 1000 subsidized homemade lunches daily with WordPress freelancers, mainly using co-working spaces in Asia. We seek sponsors to make lunches affordable and accessible for our growing community of freelancers.