A couple of months back, we wrote about Menu Next Door, a start-up that, as we put it at the time, had the potential to be the “Airbnb of food”.

The problem for Australian customers was that Menu Next Door – which puts home cooks and their hungry neighbours in touch with one another – was only available in France and Belgium, and while it has since expanded to the UK as well, that’s still not especially useful down here at the end of the world.

Well, as it turns out, Australia doesn’t need Menu Next Door. Australia has FoodByUs. The homegrown start-up launched this week and boasts what is arguably an even better business model than its European counterpart. Because where Menu Next Door requires customers to pick up their meal from the home cook in question – which made us feel nervous for the customers and even more so for the cooks whose food didn’t come up to snuff – FoodByUs goes one step further: it delivers.

Currently only available in Sydney, FoodByUs has already put together a sterling roster of home cooks who make an equally sterling array of products: British pies with an Australian twist, gluten-free and vegan doughnuts, smoothies in jars and Argentinian-style empanadas are among the options already available.

It not only promises to be great for hungry Sydneysiders, though. Those who want to monetise their home-cooking efforts stand to benefit as well. (Those who wish to become a “maker,” as the website puts it, can apply online now.)

“Following the success of the sharing economy, we are excited to launch FoodByUs into Sydney and later this year Melbourne,” said Ben Lipschitz, FoodByUs’s co-founder and managing director. “We created FoodByUs to give locals the opportunity to experience the wealth of talented home cooks in their area, which they won’t find anywhere else. We only accept top makers and every purchase on FoodByUs must get rated by the buyer, so everyone gets the best quality food and experience.”

According to FoodByUs, 53 per cent of people in New South Wales used a sharing economy platform – such as Uber or Airbnb – in the past year.

And so the winds of change continue to blow.