nice work
what's your tech stack btw?
Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food
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Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food
#22I couldn't find my country on the list. I live in the US.
Maybe "all over the world" really means "all over Europe"
Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food
#23One thing you guys should be worried about is the effort it takes for someone to host. Airbnb can be as much or little time and work intensive as the host likes. That makes it easy to host. With hosting a meal, it's always going to be time and work intensive, which limits the number of people that would be willing to do it on a continual basis. Solve that, and you might have something interesting on hand.
Millions of people already cook and clean for themselves and their family. Is it that hard to add one or two extra plates?
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#24Very interesting concept! How do food & restuarant laws apply in Europe? I know here in the US, restaurants need regular inspections by the local board of health. And restaurant is defined as "a facility that prepares and sells food directly to consumers for immediate consumption." Presumably if people are paying the host, that host is now operating a restaurant. I can already see the food lobby going crazy over this…
I would think there would be a lot of trouble with this in the UK, because if you're serving food to people for money then you need hygiene certification for the folks preparing the food and hygiene assessments for the preparation areas, at the very least.
It's a nice idea, but like AirBnB it will probably fall foul of a lot of consumer protection laws, and a lot of consumer protection laws really are there for good reasons.
Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food
#25Cool idea. I wouldn't really want to eat food prepared by someone I didn't know if that food/kitchen isn't subject to health inspections. The answer to the "What about the hygiene?" FAQ doesn't do enough to assuage my fears in this regard.
It says tables are "manually reviewed by the team". Reviewed with the stringent standards of the health dept?
Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food
#26nice work
what's your tech stack btw?
Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food
#27I couldn't find my country on the list. I live in the US. Maybe "all over the world" really means "all over Europe"
Well, welcome to the Internet most countries outside of the US experience every day.
(a little snarky I know, but the US is fantastically sheltered in this regard. I know plenty of people that have no idea that Hulu and various YouTube videos are unavailable to people outside of the US)
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#28Great idea. One thing that bugged me out right away was the sign-up form: http://i.imgur.com/hfYmbXF.png
That needs to be a lot simpler and inviting. Let me play with the app first and then pitch me the membership and make it as light touch as possible. Keep in mind that I may see anywhere between 2 and 10 new apps a day and a speed bump such as the one you have up there doesn't make adoption easier.
Other than that, best of luck.
Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food
#29For those who want to know the tech stack. We are running on heroku(the european datacenter)[1] and amazon S3, we use RoR with some pretty nice gems(active admin, devise, ...) and Jquery for the JS. For metric we use Mixpanel and Google Analytics. For our emails we use Amazon and Mailjet. The are on the european DC because of the Safe Harbor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Safe_Harbor_Priva...
When the EU region was announced[1] last month they weren't Safe Harbor compliant (yet). Has that changed? [1] https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/4/24/europe-region (near the bottom).
You're right, I did a bit of a mic mac there.
They are still not compliant with Safe Harbor in the US. Anyway since our company is located in France, the french privacy law allow us to use a hosting located in EU (instead of a US SafeHarbor one). Heroku did the EU launch just for this.
Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food
#30Very interesting concept! How do food & restuarant laws apply in Europe? I know here in the US, restaurants need regular inspections by the local board of health. And restaurant is defined as "a facility that prepares and sells food directly to consumers for immediate consumption." Presumably if people are paying the host, that host is now operating a restaurant. I can already see the food lobby going crazy over this…
I would think there would be a lot of trouble with this in the UK, because if you're serving food to people for money then you need hygiene certification for the folks preparing the food and hygiene assessments for the preparation areas, at the very least. It's a nice idea, but like AirBnB it will probably fall foul of a lot of consumer protection laws, and a lot of consumer protection laws really are there for good…
They are there for good reasons, but they doesn't mean they are good. At least not in their current form.
If it's legal to have your neighbors over for dinner, but it becomes illegal if they pay you back, something's wrong.