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Re: Show HN: I've updated my food delivery repo. Feedback Welcome

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Post by KomoD »

dagurp wrote: post #4
quickthrower2 wrote: post #2

Well 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…

Uber and Doordash don't exist everywhere though

There are other equivalents

Foodora, Just Eat, Delivery Hero, Lieferando, Deliveroo, SkipTheDishes, iFood, Zomato and so on

Re: Show HN: I've updated my food delivery repo. Feedback Welcome

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Post by gumballindie »

infecto wrote: post #17
gumballindie wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

While it may be convenient for walmart and large chains to leverage delivery companies’ infrastructure, for consumers and small businesses it is not. Nor is it for the economy at large. Whenever i discuss the topic with a small business owner their eyes lit up. I am fortunate to live in an area where community is still a thing and you can sense the strong desire to move away from the status quo.

Re: Show HN: I've updated my food delivery repo. Feedback Welcome

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Post by dublinben »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #2

Well 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…

Beyond that, it’s not even clear that it’s possible to make money doing this. The major players all lose money, and they have years of traction built up.

This might be interesting from a technical perspective, but it’s unlikely that there’s a viable business model here.

Re: Show HN: I've updated my food delivery repo. Feedback Welcome

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Post by Anon1096 »

spenserhale wrote: post #12

I 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/te…

Also, looking at the code, there's .DS_STORE and .expo right at the root level, and then the individual frontends have template readmes from the starter guides they were made with. I think customers likely won't look, but if they do, it's not a great impression for code quality. (And then taking a closer look, lack of testing etc is definitely worrying)

Re: Show HN: I've updated my food delivery repo. Feedback Welcome

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Post by diggan »

bongodongobob wrote: post #10
dagurp wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uber and Doordash don't exist everywhere though

Sure, but not because of technical reasons though. This won't solve that.

It kind of does though. The bigger food delivery companies like Uber don't seem to be interested in smaller markets with strong worker and consumer protections, but local companies could still be interested to do something similar as they usually already follow local regulations and customs.

Re: Show HN: I've updated my food delivery repo. Feedback Welcome

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Post by bongodongobob »

diggan wrote: post #27
bongodongobob wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, but not because of technical reasons though. This won't solve that.

It kind of does though. The bigger food delivery companies like Uber don't seem to be interested in smaller markets with strong worker and consumer protections, but local companies could still be interested to do something similar as they usually already follow local regulations and customs.

In my experience, the places that don't have delivery services are rural and just don't have the population for it to make sense.

Re: Show HN: I've updated my food delivery repo. Feedback Welcome

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Post by Abee_09 »

spenserhale wrote: post #12

I 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/te…

Thank you for taking the time and giving your feedback. I appreciate it, truly.

So for most of the issues like broken images and the website being slow; our hosting server was not equipped at the time to handle a massive influx of users on the site which was what happened at the time that you would have opened it as well. (We were not expecting that much traffic to be generated from this post but yeah we should have been better prepared). The server's been upgraded now and the site should be much faster now.

I would also like to point out that we are actively working on a lot of the components for the solution, as well as the website so we know that a lot of improvements are still to be made.

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