somewhat OT, but: if you have never tried baking bread at home (not even sourdough, beer yeast is ok) you should definitely try it, it's incredibly satisfying.
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
#92In one place on the front page, it says delivery takes 18 minutes. In another place on the same page, it says 20 minutes.
Not that 2 minutes makes a difference, but the numbers should be consistent.
I like 18 minutes because it sounds precise.
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#93Earlier 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…
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.
Just Eat is very popular in the UK as well. http://just-eat.co.uk/
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#94Hi 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…
There is a donut place in Berkeley that works very similar to that. The reason for them is that there are a lot of large-scale orders that want the donuts for breakfast (e.g. the school dining facilities).
Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
#95I rather deliver a great "give yourself upworthy's advantages for your content" and break my own sourdough...
But this is a startup that jumped the shark of meaning of startups. If they told me they had angel money, I'd be very concerned about investing in startups myself (if only I could)
which remind's me, I need to feed my sour starter today!
Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
#96Earlier 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…
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…
Amazingly the restaurant I am referring to is on grubhub.
So the questions is, why didn't I know that?
Back when we were selling (in the early 90's) advertising to restaurants and shops we provided them with window decals and things for placement at the register to alert customers. This isn't happening here. Also the other place isn't on grubhub. Nor have I seen others just checked a few.
Grubhub looks good. But I was thinking of something that would be an app specifically for the restaurant. Developer writes app for restaurant (using same one that has been developed for the test market) and customer downloads app. Or an html5 page I guess would work as well hosted by the "aas" provider.
Do you know what grubhub charges the restaurant?
Next time I'm picking up I'm going to ask the owner how it is working. (They have already given thumbs down to groupon and a few other things they tried).
Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
#97Hi 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 while we are thrilled with the validation of this concept"
When you say "validating the concept" what do you mean? That if you get a high amount of orders you can deliver?
Because obviously you can't depend on getting placement on HN or equivalent to drive business. And the cost of customer acquisition could kill your model assuming the price point stays the same.
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#99I 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…
Note that you've gone in the space of a couple of sentences from "I don't understand this," to "This is dumb." I recommend going with one or the other; mixing them is trouble. The use of tech here is in the ordering, inventory management, and delivery. In particular, the instant gratification. Before the mobile web, this would have been expensive and difficult. You'd need paper catalogs, phone center operators, dispa…
I'm not sure where you got the "I don't understand this" and the "This is dumb" interpretations from. It's pretty clear that neither of those are expressed in that comment. There's one coherent idea that is expressed, and it could perhaps be summed up as, "This idea is not particularly innovative or special in any way."
This is really no different from ordering pizza. I mean, the ingredients even overlap to some extent, although most pizza vendors will also offer drinks, sandwiches, chicken, and other dishes these days. And basically every pizza vendor will deliver to your door.
Many of the larger pizza chains have at least some presence over very large areas, so you can get the same predictable meal even when in distance cities or towns. And these days, most of these chains offer various ways of ordering, from in person to over the phone to websites to mobile apps.
Sure, it takes some skill to get such an operation up and running, but the idea itself isn't new by any means. And there really isn't anything special about it. It's just a very, very slight twist (perhaps even just a simplification) of a well-established type of business.
Re: Show HN: Fresh-baked rustic sourdough bread, delivered within 20 minutes
#100I 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…
Come on man, don't diss people on launch. If you don't see any value in it, look away.