FYI, the disclaimer, “The frontend source code for our solution is completely open source. However, the API and backend is proprietary and can be accessed via a paid license.”
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Re: Show HN: I've updated my food delivery repo. Feedback Welcome
#12I applaud your effort. To give you some constructive criticism, here is some feedback.
I went to the GitHub page, and on the direct link you shared, there are multiple broken images in the readme—the demo video, technology logos, etc. It is a glaring miss that within the first content of the page is a broken video. It shows a lack of attention to detail, even large details.
Next, I looked to see if there are tests/test suites for the project, as it lists working with a dozen different technologies, and I did not find one. Those dependencies will eventually have breaking changes, and with the numerous interconnected front-ends, bugs are just waiting to happen without tests.
I was curious about your license fee and navigated to the Enatega website, which is very slow. It took more than five seconds to generate the HTML page. Web best practices are the largest paint of your website. It should happen in less than two seconds, and five is off the charts.
I was curious if your company's website, Ninjascode, was any better, but it was even worse. It took 35 seconds for the server to send the HTML page.
You will lose customers because people will not spend thousands of dollars to license and trust software when the creators cannot serve a good experience on the marketing sites and don't QA their work.
That would be my overall advice: there needs to be more attention to detail. And then secondly, forming a plan to keep software error-prone as the tech stack and code changes over time.
Re: Show HN: I've updated my food delivery repo. Feedback Welcome
#13FYI, the disclaimer, “The frontend source code for our solution is completely open source. However, the API and backend is proprietary and can be accessed via a paid license.”
Is it even open source at that point? Sure you can customize the front-end, but is that not standard for food delivery solutions at this point?
The interesting part is the API and the back-end. Making the API proprietary is especially damning, it doesn't just prevent someone from hosting it themselves it prevent someone from interoperating with it. You could of course reverse engineer the API, which is why I don't quite understand the need to keep it proprietary, but having some certainty that things will simply work would be nice.
Re: Show HN: I've updated my food delivery repo. Feedback Welcome
#14Does this coincide with an app the driver installs on their phone?
I was wondering the same. Even some currently live offers in some cities suffer from the lack of riders available. The only way such a system could succeed, IMO, is if the riders can install a single app and use all the white-labeled services in a single app.
Re: Show HN: I've updated my food delivery repo. Feedback Welcome
#15Is this shopify for restaurants? Is there a hosted version available?
Re: Show HN: I've updated my food delivery repo. Feedback Welcome
#16Very cool!
Re: Show HN: I've updated my food delivery repo. Feedback Welcome
#17Well done on the hard work. I am trying to get my head around why set up one of these businesses when Uber, Doordash exist, and it is a network effects game, where you need the most drivers to be trusted, the drivers need to see you as worthwhile as do the customers and the restaurants. So it is not just chicken/egg but maybe hen/rooster/egg problem. Unless your plan is selling to the well funded startups who reckon…
People are desperately trying to move away from such platforms. Nearly all products i ordered had a flier in the box with a seller’s website and some kind of incentive. For food for instance, i received an offer of two pizzas for one if i order using the shop’s app. Naturally, i started using it.
Maybe as a POS system but are many people really moving away from it in terms of delivery? Seems like the pivot has been the delivery services offer white label experience. For example the same day walmart deliveries are done with one of the major delivery apps but you as the customer never see that. I don't think most local business want to get into or back into delivering themselves.
Re: Show HN: I've updated my food delivery repo. Feedback Welcome
#18Well done on the hard work. I am trying to get my head around why set up one of these businesses when Uber, Doordash exist, and it is a network effects game, where you need the most drivers to be trusted, the drivers need to see you as worthwhile as do the customers and the restaurants. So it is not just chicken/egg but maybe hen/rooster/egg problem. Unless your plan is selling to the well funded startups who reckon…
Seems people are using the platform to setup delivery of other things than just food. From the case studies: - Order hair and nail care services - https://enatega.com/stylizenow/ - Campus food delivery - https://enatega.com/easy-eats/ (this one is kind of just tiny bit different from normal food delivery though...) - Wine delivery - https://enatega.com/vinifynd/ With that, I guess it kind of makes sense.
Realistically I don't think anyone is truly paying for this code base though.
Re: Show HN: I've updated my food delivery repo. Feedback Welcome
#19There are two ways to do a delivery on demand (like quick commerce or food delivery):
1. Take responsibility for the delivery. Here is a customer orders and a Restaurant accepts and prepares the food, you take the responsibility to find a rider and get it delivered. If there are no riders, it is not simple to cancel the order, as the restaurant has prepared the food. In this case, you have to take the hit on the delivery fee (surge price it) and pay out of your pocket.
2. Don't take responsibility of the delivery. Here when a customer orders and there is no delivery guy, the restaurant takes the customers money as they have prepared the food. The customer is pissed and the app will slowly die.
Re: Show HN: I've updated my food delivery repo. Feedback Welcome
#20> Our solution is open source but the backend and API are proprietary, and can be obtained via paid license.
This should be changed in my opinion, I wouldn't say "our solution is open source" when the backend and api aren't.
And the "enatega" site is slow (same with the ninjascode site) and broken, sometimes it loads, sometimes it gives a Database error
The twitter account linked on the Github org is also suspended so that should probably be removed