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HaaaS (Haas Avocados as a Service)

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Re: HaaaS (Haas Avocados as a Service)

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You probably don't realize this but "cago" in Spanish means "I shit" or "I shit myself", depending on context. If you accent the "o", "cagó" it means "he shit" or "she shit". So "avocago" could mean that someone named "Avo" took a shit. Not the kind of thing you want to associate with fresh produce. I would seriously consider pivoting to a different name.

We'll change it if it gets to be an issue, thanks for the tip!

Your call. I'd change it now before the business grows. Besides, a more generic name would better support expanding your offerings beyond avocados.

Fruits and veggies available at most markets suck. Quality and taste is horrible. Sell quality produce guaranteed to taste great and people might beat a path to your door. Just don't call it what you are calling it. "Ralphs" could have been a plumbimg company. Pick something less descriptive and more brandable.

Like it or not the hispanic population consumes a lot of avocado. Don't get off the line with a name that diverts a huge chunk of your potential audience from your value proposition. It's a mistake.

Free advise, for what it's worth.

Re: HaaaS (Haas Avocados as a Service)

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Yeah! :)

So, a tip for you - Chilean avos are Counter Seasonal. So, when they're not ripe here in CA, they are down in the Southern Hemisphere. ;) (Avos are so good I just took four camping this weekend.)

That's amazing! Thank you for the tip :)

Re: HaaaS (Haas Avocados as a Service)

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We do text the prices upon confirming an order, it depends on quantity and location. We wouldn't show up at your door before letting you know the price!

I don't understand. Why place the order before confirming the prices? Why not just put it on the site and save the text? A service like this refusing to give me a price until an order is placed will make me a bit suspicious and leery from a consumer's perspective. Why the secrecy on the prices of these avocados? I don't get it.

>> Why the secrecy on the prices of these avocados? I don't get it

> We do text the prices upon confirming an order, it depends on quantity and location.

If you are really that price conscious, you probably shouldn't be using SF-based delivery services (or be living in SF) in the first place.

Re: HaaaS (Haas Avocados as a Service)

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This is the first thing I've ever seen on HN (and I've been here since the beginning) that I've shared with my father. He absolutely loves avocados and eats them raw, and I knew when he saw this it would be love at first sight even though he lives on the east coast of the US and can't use the service!

Re: HaaaS (Haas Avocados as a Service)

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We do text the prices upon confirming an order, it depends on quantity and location. We wouldn't show up at your door before letting you know the price!

I don't understand. Why place the order before confirming the prices? Why not just put it on the site and save the text? A service like this refusing to give me a price until an order is placed will make me a bit suspicious and leery from a consumer's perspective. Why the secrecy on the prices of these avocados? I don't get it.

This thread has gone from a parody of the reluctance of HN readers to spend money to actual reluctance to spend money.

I must protest!

We still need a discussion about how the NSA is instrumenting avocados to track us, how free markets distort government regulation of avocado markets, how we should all grow our own trees, how YC has jumped the shark by funding avocado services without a proven business model, how we are in an avocado bubble and a deep learning implementation that generates avocados crossed with dogs.

Then we can ask these kind of questions!

Re: HaaaS (Haas Avocados as a Service)

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post #25

This is the first thing I've ever seen on HN (and I've been here since the beginning) that I've shared with my father. He absolutely loves avocados and eats them raw, and I knew when he saw this it would be love at first sight even though he lives on the east coast of the US and can't use the service!

Eats them raw? Who would cook an avocado??? Or you mean eats them plain? Because that's just delicious.
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