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Re: Show HN: I made a point of sale system with self-service for mobile devices

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Overall, very simple and to the point but not worth $219/mo. In your DEMO, the "Order Status" page takes approx. 4.76s to load 205 orders...this seems like a very poor architecture decision or a poorly written SQL statement combined/rendering logic, especially in 2020. You are headed in the right direction though! To compete with the big guns, you'll either need better pricing or better features (including what other…

Is this advice anecdotal or from personal experience?

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Re: Show HN: I made a point of sale system with self-service for mobile devices

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Congrats! I applaud that you are productizing a barebones MVP-level application. You have initial users, definitely pay attention to their feedback. Both for technical improvements, but more importantly for any tips on how you can market this. As many other commentators have pointed out, you face an uphill battle. The incumbents have way more features than you do and they handle more use cases out of the box. They al…

Thank you for your congratulations and taking the time to write such a detailed comment.

Yes, the demo is just the access point for guests, so changing the status on the status page is not possible. It's an information for the guest about there current orders. The interface for waiters is nearly the same, except they can choose the table at the beginning and are able to checkout orders on a table (mark them as paid).

Maybe a video with some examples would be helpful to understand the process.

Currently it is important for me to find real customers so I will definitely work on the pricing model. I also thought about different pricing models (like tauntz mentioned a % revenue-based approach with an upper cap). For starting this MVP it was important to keep it simple so I decied to use a fixed price per month. Maybe I should cut it to find real customers.

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