Does SF not have Jimmy Johns? They'll stick some oats and sesame seeds on a roll if you ask nicely. They are freakishly fast.
Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
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Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually in the modern business world, as long as you're growing, you're survivable. Cash influxes (loans, investment) can support a business for years - Amazon did it. You just need to convince investors that you have a story.
That's an anecdotal example. Amazon is different in that Bezos has enough room to dial back reinvestment and generate more cash or turn up reinvestment to reduce apparent profit. Profit doesn't just magically appear, costs and pricing have to eventually face reality. Sooner, the better. Spending more money does not necessarily make a business any better. That's like these noob business people that buy stock before th…
No that's just an 'example'. Many startups fit this model. I'm in one that's in the 5th year, still growing, still with financial backing. Many are in this mode until bought out (or of course until they fail).
Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
#153Do you guys know about SpoonRocket? It's only in the East Bay, but seems conceptually similar.
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#154I 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 they can marry technology to make this a very smart venture, I could see this being hackerish.
For example, there is this guy on youtube who made a machine to automate trying out different cookie recipes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YEdHjGMeho
Just because bread and bakeries have been around forever doesn't mean that there isn't room to apply technology to make it better.
If you can make a process whereby you can bake the bread on demand and have it freshly baked just for me, that would be amazing and totally hacker worthy. Fresh bread is amazing and being able to make and deliver extremely fresh bread on demand that is profitable would be awesome.
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#155That's very cool, but jeez is that really in line with the price of baked bread in San Francisco? This morning, 3,50€ bought me half a kilo of 5-cereals focaccia, two loaves of cereal breada and half a kilo of white bread. That's bread for a eight people lunch. That's probably one of the few things I'm gonna miss about Italy when I'll leave.
I suppose you're located in the south of Italy, as in the north (Milan for example) bread (standard, not multicereal or special ones) is around 4-5€ per kilo. NB I'm Italian now in Luxembourg and one of the thing I miss is the quality of bread (here it is generally not very good, too many "boulangerie" of the same brand, Fischer, with all the same bread / taste). And of course it is even more expensive...
Tuscany, small province town. Those prices in Milan are crazy, though!
Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
#156I 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…
I guess I'm just at a loss as to what is even remotely "hacker"-ish about this.
For one thing, they're going to be standing in a line of people at YC all asked the question "Will people actually use this?" The median answer sort of muddles through it. Their answer will be "We sold $800 of bread in an hour and nearly killed ourselves delivering it all. People actually do want this. Additionally, we have the intestinal fortitude to do things that the line of people you just interviewed did not."
There exist severely Fun Challenges (TM) with both the product and marketing side of this at scale, by the way. Delivering 100 orders of bread, once, requires a spreadsheet, a trello board, or even a piece of paper, and exactly one bakery on board. Delivering 10,000 loves a day is going to take some serious ops expertise. It will likely be hard learned.
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#157I need this up in Lexington, KY. It's the San Francisco of Kentucky! ...Or something like that.