Dat sexy bread tho..
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
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I was a little closer to Philadelphia, there were ~150 restaurants taking online orders from my address, and I never had a delivery take over an hour. If same-hour delivery of a small menu is the future of retail, then Wal-Mart must be deathly afraid of Dominos. They were guaranteeing fresh pizza in 30 minutes or less decades ago, nationwide. Same-day? Mumbai's been doing it for over a century, without any moder…
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It does because you were trying to insinuate that 1 hour delivery of food is a logistical nightmare. You probably are thinking more along the lines of Amazon.com and shut out of your mind that restaurants have been doing this for decades. Dominos can deliver fresh baked food almost anywhere in the country in 30 minutes.
Sometimes it's good to get a little slap that wakes you up out of startup mode.
Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wouldn't consider this validation of the idea. It is just a bunch of people in SF that don't care about five bucks. We eat a lot of bread in my house. I would love a few loafs delivered every other day for a reasonable rate like how they deliver my newspaper.
They sell bread. They got 150 orders in 2 hours. Their idea was validated.
Was the idea really validated? Is their business model "get on the front page of HN daily"? If not, absolutely nothing was validated.
Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
"It'd be a strange thing to pitch to investors too." I think there is something here actually. For example it's a constant annoyance to me that when I get chinese food or sushi from the same places on a regular basis I actually have to make a phone call and talk to someone. At one place where they know me they actually make me give them my phone number which allows them to pull me up in their system. Just having to r…
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 prototyped using a small linux box where you get a local restaurant that you know ("you" means person who does this) to validate the idea. Small box isn't the final product or form factor only a way to see if the idea provides value.
Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I was a little closer to Philadelphia, there were ~150 restaurants taking online orders from my address, and I never had a delivery take over an hour. If same-hour delivery of a small menu is the future of retail, then Wal-Mart must be deathly afraid of Dominos. They were guaranteeing fresh pizza in 30 minutes or less decades ago, nationwide. Same-day? Mumbai's been doing it for over a century, without any moder…
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GP is pointing that this challenges appears to have already been solved, quite successfully, by many small non-technological business in many cities. Was it snarky? Yes. But it was also insightful.
Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I was a little closer to Philadelphia, there were ~150 restaurants taking online orders from my address, and I never had a delivery take over an hour. If same-hour delivery of a small menu is the future of retail, then Wal-Mart must be deathly afraid of Dominos. They were guaranteeing fresh pizza in 30 minutes or less decades ago, nationwide. Same-day? Mumbai's been doing it for over a century, without any moder…
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It may not add to the discussion, but at least it stops people from subtracting from it by talking about one-hour food delivery as something remarkable.
Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
#77Just got our delivery now, fantastic service. I hope the unit-economics work out, because I'd certainly use this, yc or not.
Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
#78I 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…
They're applying for YC though, so they're validating an idea. Gotta appreciate that they're learning what it means to deliver bread on demand. If I lived in SF, I'd have them bring me a loaf of bread today.
Well, that's the problem I think the parent was getting at, but they did not quite get there. A barbershop or a bakery itself, in one city, isn't a startup. So even if they have success here, they've only validated that they are a business, not "in startup territory" (http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html) In other words, it validates an idea, but it validates the wrong idea.
For what it is worth, though, they do mention that their actual application idea will be different. So maybe they have a way to scale or do something with bread delivery that isn't already covered by the existing businesses.
Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
#79Strange business, if that's what it's going to be. I've never had a sudden craving for a loaf of bread and wished I could order just that online. Not that I can't already; the local grocery store has a delivery service, and they bake their own bread every morning. I'm sure there's at least one bakery that delivers in the city, and there's a half dozen restaurants on GrubHub in my area that offer some kind of bread de…
"It'd be a strange thing to pitch to investors too." I think there is something here actually. For example it's a constant annoyance to me that when I get chinese food or sushi from the same places on a regular basis I actually have to make a phone call and talk to someone. At one place where they know me they actually make me give them my phone number which allows them to pull me up in their system. Just having to r…
This already exists in Toronto: http://just-eat.ca/
From what I understand, the restaurant doesn't even need an Internet connection. The service can send them the orders by fax.
Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I was a little closer to Philadelphia, there were ~150 restaurants taking online orders from my address, and I never had a delivery take over an hour. If same-hour delivery of a small menu is the future of retail, then Wal-Mart must be deathly afraid of Dominos. They were guaranteeing fresh pizza in 30 minutes or less decades ago, nationwide. Same-day? Mumbai's been doing it for over a century, without any moder…
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