Show HN: A directory of restaurants with links to buy gift cards to support them
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#2cool project. Good extension of the pledge show hn the other day
I’d love for a feature “within 25 miles of {zipcode} so I can find some around me. (I’m in the suburbs where local doesn’t mean the same city)
Clicked “view all cities” Not down to type in the name of every city around me
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#3Why just restaurants? This should be expanded to support barber shops, nail salons and massage business. I’m sure I’m forgetting a few other business that could benefit.
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#4“Operation timed out -- app too busy”
Hug of death?
Re: Show HN: A directory of restaurants with links to buy gift cards to support them
#5Why just restaurants? This should be expanded to support barber shops, nail salons and massage business. I’m sure I’m forgetting a few other business that could benefit.
I usually pay my barber in cash. If I wanted to send her a payment in lieu of my next appointment, what would be the most sensible way to do that?
I could mail her a check I suppose.
ACH transfer? (I assume I would have to ask her for her bank account info which might be a little awkward.)
Venmo? (I've tried to avoid it thus far.)
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#6In my experience, 90% of locally-owned restaurants have gift cards. So what's the point of a website that attempts to list 90% of restaurants? Why not just use Google Maps?
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#7Can't we have this site serving straight HTML with links? Why we should always have JS involved for even most simple tasks?
Re: Show HN: A directory of restaurants with links to buy gift cards to support them
#8Can't we have this site serving straight HTML with links? Why we should always have JS involved for even most simple tasks?
I've asked someone who likes using tons of JavaScript before and the response I received was along the lines of "It saves developer time."
I don't get that one because in my experience, writing straight HTML is simpler than writing JavaScript. The real problem seems to be that many people today seem to have learned frontend web development through fancy JavaScript frameworks and don't know any other way. Since learning the simpler way to do it is more work, they don't bother. That's just my impression, however, and I don't have any hard data. Another possibility is that people want to learn the latest sexy technology and React/Angular/whatever people use these days is that.
Re: Show HN: A directory of restaurants with links to buy gift cards to support them
#9cool project. Good extension of the pledge show hn the other day I’d love for a feature “within 25 miles of {zipcode} so I can find some around me. (I’m in the suburbs where local doesn’t mean the same city) Clicked “view all cities” Not down to type in the name of every city around me
You can type the name of the city you're searching for on this page - https://givelocal.co/search
Great feedback though! This is definitely something we pulled together quickly over the last few days.
Re: Show HN: A directory of restaurants with links to buy gift cards to support them
#10Why just restaurants? This should be expanded to support barber shops, nail salons and massage business. I’m sure I’m forgetting a few other business that could benefit.
That's on the roadmap! Starting with restaurants as that's the world I know best right now