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Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes

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Re: Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes

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Ideas: 1) Add ratings for each dish, will help me decide what to buy. 2) It actually looks like each of the items on your side is not a dish, but a deal. So if the same dish is on sale in a week, it will be a separate item, correct? If that's the case, I would change it. 3) Add names for dishes on the left hand side. Right now the only way to find out what I'm looking at is to click on it, which loads a new page. 4)…

Duly noted. We're hackin' hard over here!

Re: Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes

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On the flip side, restaurants that are tired of the daily deal model may find Munch on Me to be a more enticing option. This is because Munch on Me’s core userbase consists of foodies, rather than bargain hunters. These are the type of people who are more likely to become repeat customers. Why would the userbase consist of foodies and not bargain hunters? If anything, won't it consist of bargain hunting foodies?

I know it's only mashable, but how many times does it have to be repeated: publishing a slightly edited press release != journalism

Re: Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes

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On the flip side, restaurants that are tired of the daily deal model may find Munch on Me to be a more enticing option. This is because Munch on Me’s core userbase consists of foodies, rather than bargain hunters. These are the type of people who are more likely to become repeat customers. Why would the userbase consist of foodies and not bargain hunters? If anything, won't it consist of bargain hunting foodies?

I'd take it a bit further, and say that foodies are much more likely to constantly look for new things

Re: Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes

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post #25

Fukime, Leaky and now "Munch On Me"? Seriously? Is there a way to have a "ask your mom/dad/sister/girlfriend/wife what they think of your name" class before domains are registered? Branding matters.

Now that you've mentioned this fact, I'm more interested in trying out these services.

Re: Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes

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seriously, they named it "munch on me"? nothing double meaning came to mind when they were thinking about that name?

I can also imagine some further publications shortening it to MOM. So they'll begin: "Munch On Me (MOM), a new startup in San Francisco, has..."

Re: Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes

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post #25

Fukime, Leaky and now "Munch On Me"? Seriously? Is there a way to have a "ask your mom/dad/sister/girlfriend/wife what they think of your name" class before domains are registered? Branding matters.

well yes, fukime wasn't so good

edit: I'm affliated with Fukime

Re: Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes

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post #26
post #25

Fukime, Leaky and now "Munch On Me"? Seriously? Is there a way to have a "ask your mom/dad/sister/girlfriend/wife what they think of your name" class before domains are registered? Branding matters.

Now that you've mentioned this fact, I'm more interested in trying out these services.

Kind of how I remember the name Shwowp for how horrible it is, but have to Google "tara hunts startup" to find Buyosphere.

Re: Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes

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seriously, they named it "munch on me"? nothing double meaning came to mind when they were thinking about that name?

I dunno, I like the name, and I think a double-meaning is a bit of a stretch... Next you're going to tell me you think a restaurant site named "Eating Out" means something else...
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