Show HN: The Loft Club – Monthly access to top restaurants in your city
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Re: Show HN: The Loft Club – Monthly access to top restaurants in your city
#2Hey everyone, this is Derrick, the creator of The Loft Club.
We noticed a common pattern when we eat out. A cursory Yelp search, perhaps a cross reference dining guides, and finally making the reservation (via OpenTable/SeatMe/phone), only to find out that there aren't any tables left. We then wish we had done all this couple weeks back, but that's hardly practical.
The Loft Club removes all that hassle. Trust us to do the research, and we'll make the reservations for you every two weeks. We've started this small project to scratch our own itch for now, and we'd love to hear your feedback!
Re: Show HN: The Loft Club – Monthly access to top restaurants in your city
#3Hey everyone, this is Derrick, the creator of The Loft Club. We noticed a common pattern when we eat out. A cursory Yelp search, perhaps a cross reference dining guides, and finally making the reservation (via OpenTable/SeatMe/phone), only to find out that there aren't any tables left. We then wish we had done all this couple weeks back, but that's hardly practical. The Loft Club removes all that hassle. Trust us to…
This looks neat! Signed up. Question though -- is this all $$$$+ restaurants or will you guys expand to cheaper/lesser well known joints too?
Re: Show HN: The Loft Club – Monthly access to top restaurants in your city
#4Hey everyone, this is Derrick, the creator of The Loft Club. We noticed a common pattern when we eat out. A cursory Yelp search, perhaps a cross reference dining guides, and finally making the reservation (via OpenTable/SeatMe/phone), only to find out that there aren't any tables left. We then wish we had done all this couple weeks back, but that's hardly practical. The Loft Club removes all that hassle. Trust us to…
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Re: Show HN: The Loft Club – Monthly access to top restaurants in your city
#5Hey everyone, this is Derrick, the creator of The Loft Club. We noticed a common pattern when we eat out. A cursory Yelp search, perhaps a cross reference dining guides, and finally making the reservation (via OpenTable/SeatMe/phone), only to find out that there aren't any tables left. We then wish we had done all this couple weeks back, but that's hardly practical. The Loft Club removes all that hassle. Trust us to…
From a city perspective, Chicago should be added of course. Beyond that you should have the ability to mark restaurants, food types, and neighborhoods as no gos or desired (what if i hate chinese food, don't want to go to hyde park, or need gluten free...so basically take the different categories in yelp and add those in as well for both positive and negative). At least that's off the top of my head. Another concept would be as opposed to the current scheduling to allow me to add when i want to go in a calendaring format and let you fill it (this tuesday, next wednesday...nothing the week after, etc)
Re: Show HN: The Loft Club – Monthly access to top restaurants in your city
#6Hey everyone, this is Derrick, the creator of The Loft Club. We noticed a common pattern when we eat out. A cursory Yelp search, perhaps a cross reference dining guides, and finally making the reservation (via OpenTable/SeatMe/phone), only to find out that there aren't any tables left. We then wish we had done all this couple weeks back, but that's hardly practical. The Loft Club removes all that hassle. Trust us to…
This looks neat! Signed up. Question though -- is this all $$$$+ restaurants or will you guys expand to cheaper/lesser well known joints too?
Thanks! We're starting off with the $40-$60 per head price range, and we definitely want to hit different price points.
Our selection of restaurants include both well and lesser known joints - good food exists in all places, and we want to help people discover that.
Re: Show HN: The Loft Club – Monthly access to top restaurants in your city
#7Hey everyone, this is Derrick, the creator of The Loft Club. We noticed a common pattern when we eat out. A cursory Yelp search, perhaps a cross reference dining guides, and finally making the reservation (via OpenTable/SeatMe/phone), only to find out that there aren't any tables left. We then wish we had done all this couple weeks back, but that's hardly practical. The Loft Club removes all that hassle. Trust us to…
From a city perspective, Chicago should be added of course. Beyond that you should have the ability to mark restaurants, food types, and neighborhoods as no gos or desired (what if i hate chinese food, don't want to go to hyde park, or need gluten free...so basically take the different categories in yelp and add those in as well for both positive and negative). At least that's off the top of my head. Another concept…
Thanks for the feedback! We are actively adding a dining preference feature, so hang tight for that.
The first iteration of the product actually had that kind of flexible scheduling in place, but we decided to simplify it for launch. We do want to add it back once demand scales up!
Re: Show HN: The Loft Club – Monthly access to top restaurants in your city
#8Hey everyone, this is Derrick, the creator of The Loft Club. We noticed a common pattern when we eat out. A cursory Yelp search, perhaps a cross reference dining guides, and finally making the reservation (via OpenTable/SeatMe/phone), only to find out that there aren't any tables left. We then wish we had done all this couple weeks back, but that's hardly practical. The Loft Club removes all that hassle. Trust us to…
Honest feedback - looks like you're trying to charge me for something that's free. Calling a restaurant to make a reservation is not that big of a hassle.
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#9I love that you can specify 1 person...
TLC is going to have a nice database of very weird people who would use a service like this to make sure they get to go out to a fancy restaurant twice a month, by themselves...
Re: Show HN: The Loft Club – Monthly access to top restaurants in your city
#10Is it possible to do a different frequency, like twice per week? 26 times a year isn't much.