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Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food

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Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food

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Post by Pyramids »

negrit wrote: post #6

For those who want to know the tech stack. We are running on heroku(the european datacenter)[1] and amazon S3, we use RoR with some pretty nice gems(active admin, devise, ...) and Jquery for the JS. For metric we use Mixpanel and Google Analytics. For our emails we use Amazon and Mailjet. The are on the european DC because of the Safe Harbor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Safe_Harbor_Priva...

What kind of resources are you using currently on Heroku?

Is infrastructure a noteworthy portion of your spending? (10-20%+?)

Either way, cool concept, I'd definitely consider using it.

Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food

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Post by jcase »

negrit wrote: post #6

For those who want to know the tech stack. We are running on heroku(the european datacenter)[1] and amazon S3, we use RoR with some pretty nice gems(active admin, devise, ...) and Jquery for the JS. For metric we use Mixpanel and Google Analytics. For our emails we use Amazon and Mailjet. The are on the european DC because of the Safe Harbor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Safe_Harbor_Priva...

When the EU region was announced[1] last month they weren't Safe Harbor compliant (yet). Has that changed?

[1] https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/4/24/europe-region (near the bottom).

Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food

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Post by jbverschoor »

ArikBe wrote: post #10
enoptix wrote: post #7

Very interesting concept! How do food & restuarant laws apply in Europe? I know here in the US, restaurants need regular inspections by the local board of health. And restaurant is defined as "a facility that prepares and sells food directly to consumers for immediate consumption." Presumably if people are paying the host, that host is now operating a restaurant. I can already see the food lobby going crazy over this…

This. I had the exact same idea (although locally oriented) about a year ago, but then I found out that all places that serve food commercially in the Netherlands require that someone on the staff is in possession of a "Social Hygiene Diploma"[1] and the health services would shut down basically anyone who attempted to do this. I hope you guys do well, I think there's a lot of social value in this concept. Food can b…

Actually, there was a Dutch site featured on I think DWDD. www.thuisafgehaald.nl

Was not really a success

Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food

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Post by lenazegher »

enoptix wrote: post #7

Very interesting concept! How do food & restuarant laws apply in Europe? I know here in the US, restaurants need regular inspections by the local board of health. And restaurant is defined as "a facility that prepares and sells food directly to consumers for immediate consumption." Presumably if people are paying the host, that host is now operating a restaurant. I can already see the food lobby going crazy over this…

I think this is just another way it's "like AirBnB". I assert the vast majority of AirBnB rentals break either local laws regarding guest houses or hotels, and/or the provisions of the lease in rented accommodation.

Perhaps this service can spare itself from liability from the unlicensed action of its users by including in the ToS "you must have all valid licenses required by your jurisdiction if you choose to charge for hosting a meal".

Edit: I would imagine thing become even more complicated if guests receive wine or other alcoholic drinks as part of the meal.

Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food

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Post by negrit »

resu wrote: post #8

I think this is a fantastic idea! I would definitely try it out if it were available in the areas I am planning to travel to. Any plans to expand to Asia?

Thanks for the kind words !

We currently have hosts in Chile, Canada, ... so Asia should come soon. Basically as soon as someone open a table in Asia it's done. If you are asking about our marketing strategy, I don't know yet.

Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food

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Post by iamwil »

One thing you guys should be worried about is the effort it takes for someone to host. Airbnb can be as much or little time and work intensive as the host likes. That makes it easy to host. With hosting a meal, it's always going to be time and work intensive, which limits the number of people that would be willing to do it on a continual basis.

Solve that, and you might have something interesting on hand.

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