"Like X but Y" might be the worst elevator pitch ever. Or the best. I can't decide.
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Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food
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Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Millions of people already cook and clean for themselves and their family. Is it that hard to add one or two extra plates?
Many more eat out or over the sink. Even families have been eating out more since fast food became more prevalent (at least in the US). Has the trend reversed? I'm not saying it won't work. It's something that people miss when they think of this idea. Perhaps it works best in countries with a strong home cooking tradition, rather than the US, like the ones listed on their homepage.
Just talking about dinner, most people eat at home most of the time. Here is one study from 2005 on that:
RESTAURANT MEALS FOR DINNER LAST WEEK?
None: 47% 1 night: 27% 2-3 nights: 21% 4+ nights: 4%
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500160_162-1060315.html
This poll was conducted among a nationwide random sample of 936 adults, interviewed by telephone October 30-November 1, 2005. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points.
Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food
#53Very 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…
Looks great, keep going with it.
As many people have pointed out - there's a lot of potential problems and legislation that could get in the way. What constantly impresses me is that people can push right through and solve these seemingly insurmountable issues. I'm sure if AirBnB was first posted here they'd get back 50 reasons why it can't work.
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#54Looks like the same concept as http://eatwith.com/
I'm going to my first eatWith event tomorrow night...
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#55It's very smart of Cookening to provide information about WHY users should connect with Facebook. As a privacy conscious user, I find that this is missing from many sites. I might be willing to share my information, but you have to explain what's in it for me in a straight-forward way.
Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food
#56It's very smart of Cookening to provide information about WHY users should connect with Facebook. As a privacy conscious user, I find that this is missing from many sites. I might be willing to share my information, but you have to explain what's in it for me in a straight-forward way.
Thank you !
This should definitively be a best practice.
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#57I love this idea and it seems like a great way to bring people together in real life through technology. Like others though I think this could have trouble with laws and probably to a greater extent than AirBnB. How liable is the host if there is an food poisoning incident for example? Is Cookening liable at all?
Anyway, good luck, it's a great idea.
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#58Super 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 :)
We are doing something similar with http://www.yumwe.de too (and on a very similar stack :-), but it's focused on the German market for now.
Congrats on your launch!
Re: Show HN: Like Airbnb but for food
#59Looks like the same concept as http://eatwith.com/ I'm going to my first eatWith event tomorrow night...
It is actually the same concept.
Let me know how it went with eatwith. My email and my twitter handle are in my HN profile.
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#60I love this idea but don't like the idea of paying.
How about instead of paying money for the meal, have an option where you can host the hosts in return at your place.
May be this doesn't belong in this app or may be it does..