Looks pretty nice, I just miss a 'cursor:pointer' in the 'contact the host' button.
Thank you for the feed back, I'll tell our UI/UX guy !
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#42There's a new company in SF planning to do something similar called Bigtable. Planning to launch soon http://bigtable.co
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#43Super Marmite, based in France, pitched this in 2010. I think it's still going. http://www.super-marmite.com/
It's still going. We know them pretty well :)
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#44One 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.
That's precisely where the airbnb analogy breaks down. One of the most powerful aspects of airbnb is the ability for a host to earn good money with little time/effort. Too many companies forget to copy that feature when building an "airbnb for X".
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#45There's a new company in SF planning to do something similar called Bigtable. Planning to launch soon http://bigtable.co
Thanks for the tips. I will follow them :)
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#46"Like X but Y" might be the worst elevator pitch ever. Or the best. I can't decide.
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#47This is so weird that it has to work. My first reaction was that it was dumb and no-one would do it, but this is exactly the first reaction to most things that turned out to be success. I definitely wish you all the best. Plus I see you are focused on Europe, which is probably place where good cuisine is highly valued.
Thank you !
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#48Underground food sharing (trust). Make it "karma points" (not cash) ... important to be unregulated, like the "volunteer" payments with SideCar. Imagine tens of thousands of locations in each city, with most people's points netting to near-zero. In other words, you give as much as you take. Cooking vs eating - self-cancelling at nearly 50/50. Open trade in points, reputation scores, and trust. People without time to…
Why is it that people who come up with these thought experiments can never resist talking about their beliefs? Do you have a plan of implementation? A seed network to beat the cold start problem? An actual, non-exploitable prototype for aiding discovery? A way to demonstrate trustworthiness? Survey results to show enough people willing to cook in order to provide sufficient supply to meet demand? Or is this just a pi…
It's called future prototyping.
The Tommorow Project, by Intel. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/tomorrow-pro...
Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food
#49One 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.
It's now our main focus.
Here is a great talk of Brian Chesky(Co-founder of Airbnb): http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272180383
There is still a lot of work to do ! This is just the beginning !
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#50I love how no one (yet) on this thread took this as an opportunity to trash france and it's startups. A sign of a very successful launch! Congrats to the cookening team. Love the idea. Will use next time I'm in Paris!