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Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes

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Post by dsr_ »

evli wrote: post #140
smacktoward wrote: post #36

I guess I'm just at a loss as to what is even remotely "hacker"-ish about this. It's a bakery that delivers. That's great, I guess, but there's nothing particularly technical about it. They're not using tech in some unusual or interesting way to cut down on delivery costs, or make bread in a different way, or anything. It's just... a bakery, that delivers. There's a Web form to order your bread through, but in 2014 t…

If the bread is good Its enough to be disruptive. The quality of bread in the US is very poor (if you have had the opportunity to eat at a local bakery in pretty much anywhere else in the world you know what I am talking about).

The general quality of nationally-distributed commercial bread in groceries is poor. It needs stabilizers and preservatives and has both an incredible shelf life and an incredible lack of taste.

However, many supermarkets have their own in-store bakeries, which range from slightly better than bad to very good; urban areas almost always have decent bakeries; and some of the best bakeries in the world are in the US. In the SF area finding a good loaf of a rustic-style sourdough is only slightly harder to do than finding a good cup of coffee.

Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes

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Post by enraged_camel »

pappyo wrote: post #136

I'm disappointed with the comments here about this future YC applicant. Can't we think bigger than a food delivery app? If you read the homepage, you'll see their tag line is "Fresh bread, snacks and coffee beans. Delivered in 18 minutes." Now, let's remove the baked goods accoutrement for a second and focus on the "delivered in 18 minutes or less". Isn't this the very real problem Amazon is trying to solve for thems…

>>I'm disappointed with the comments here about this future YC applicant. Can't we think bigger than a food delivery app?

Yeah, it was incredibly depressing to visit a really nice web page, become interested, and then read the top comment which basically dismisses the entire thing as "not hacker-ish" enough. Mind you, that comment is coming from a guy who blogs about mostly political topics...

Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes

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Post by fiatjaf »

larrys wrote: post #102
dangrossman wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What area are you in? The simple solution to that is to get local restaurants to join an online ordering site like GrubHub -- I would be surprised if you're in a major suburb and none of the restaurants are already enrolled there or on a similar site. They're the "BCC" for online-enabling restaurants. The thing that makes it so easy is that it operates on fax. It seems antiquated, but that means any restaurant with a…

Found this about grubhub: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/12/211187343/food-d... http://iterativepath.wordpress.com/2013/08/12/should-your-re... Pricing to me says that there is opportunity in this market. (Assumes article has correct info of course I haven't verified..)

""If a restaurant's not on Grubhub-Seamless, then their best option is to distribute paper menus around their neighborhood," Maloney says.

A lot of restaurant owners agree that is ineffective. Tom DeSimone owns the tiny RBBTS Café in Manhattan. He says the food delivery website connects his restaurant to law firms and banks. Big companies that use vouchers for websites like Seamless to reward their employees."

If this is a good reason for restaurants to stick to Grubhub and alike, then there's also an opportunity for marketing websites/communities for delivery restaurants. This must not be tied to a delivery/charging network like Grubhub.

Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes

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Post by songgao »

Please let there be an API.

Home Sensors + ifttt + Bread Box would be a good alternative for morning alarms :-)

Or make it integrated with the navigation app on my cell phone. Based on traffic status, it'll schedule bread baking. After I park my car near my office, I can pick some freshly baked bread on my way.

Or integrate with a voting system that hooks with GitHub. The person who makes the most awesome PR of the day gets a basket of healthy bread delivered to her/his home next morning.

Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes

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Post by fiatjaf »

larrys wrote: post #137
fiatjaf wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been thinking about this for various weeks and thinking about implementing something like (no, not like, it is exactly what you described) this, but everybody I ask to comment on the idea tells me about Grubhub and similar services, and they just don't understand why there would be other kind of service. The great thing about automatically building webapps for delivery restaurants is that this can work even if y…

"but everybody I ask to comment on the idea tells me about Grubhub and similar services, and they just don't understand why there would be other kind of service." Who is everyone? Is "everyone" the target customer? Are is "everyone" startup people, programmers, hackers, VC's etc? The fact that there are already sushi restaurants doesn't prevent new ones from opening everyday and doing business and making money. "The…

"everyone" are people I know from various areas, including people who work with advertising, programming and general paperwork.

Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

larrys wrote: post #74
sib wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I lived in NYC in the '90's, I used to place the same order from the same pizza place often enough that the calls went like this: Me: Them: "The usual?" Me: "Yup, thanks" Them: Seems like recently startups are finally starting to get to that level of knowing the customer...

Might be a kickstarter opportunity for a device that does the following: Gets the caller id and when person who answers hits a button prints out an order form with the customers name. Later version could actually store info about the customer in the device. The point of this device is to have as little disruption to the existing work flow as possible. Just plug it in to the incoming phone line. Probably could be prot…

Probably already exists. I know that there is contact management software that does similar tasks.

Perhaps that's the key: scan GitHub/SourceForge (is SF still around, anyway?) for an OSS base you can build this new app on. It has to exist already. The main challenge will then be selling it to restaurants.

Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #66
getbreadbox wrote: post #54

Hi everyone! Thank you all so much for your interest in this! The spike in interest from HN has been totally overwhelming, so while we are thrilled with the validation of this concept, we are running out of stock and falling behind on delivery schedule. I'll be sure to reach out individually to everyone who submitted an order. We can't wait to launch this service in a way that can handle demand spikes like this -- th…

So you achieved your goal right? Historically bakeries are very 'spikey' in their demand, a friend of mine runs one and they spend 3AM to 6AM making donuts and bagels which they sell out of between 6AM and 7:15AM, and then sell maybe a handful or two for the rest of the day. Given the complexities of bread, it would interesting to hear a post mortem about ways you might both account for spikes without compromising de…

That's an interesting logistic problem I hadn't even thought of. I bake a lot of bread (today's was buttermilk chile cheddar) and it can be very uncooperative and unpredictable, unlike cakes and other pastry.

I understand that in a production environment they will be more process driven than my own kitchen, but I wonder what the timing variation is in the typical small commercial bakery. i.e., from start of mixing to fresh bread out the oven, how repeatable is the time to completion?

Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes

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Post by pistle »

smacktoward wrote: post #36

I guess I'm just at a loss as to what is even remotely "hacker"-ish about this. It's a bakery that delivers. That's great, I guess, but there's nothing particularly technical about it. They're not using tech in some unusual or interesting way to cut down on delivery costs, or make bread in a different way, or anything. It's just... a bakery, that delivers. There's a Web form to order your bread through, but in 2014 t…

The big money is in doing stuff that doesn't scale!!!

Soon, someone will print out your emails, stuff them in envelopes, and deliver them to you. USendly has arrived. You send a micropayment which generates a QR code that will go on the envelope which is sorted and handed to a courier with a smart phone with a GPS that directs the self-driving car to the recipients' location. The driver then drops the envelope in their USendly box that is affixed to their home or office.

USendly also just bought PulpScan. PulpScan scans paper documents and emails them to recipients. The synergies mean that USendly can now courier paper documents between people, but are disrupting the traditional email distribution process.

The new company USendlyPulpScan has a not-so-stealthy beta up at USPS.com

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