> Monsiuer Benjamin
It's Monsieur.
And I don't like this idea. I want to choose the restaurant I'm going to, we have amazing tools now like Trip Advisor to get an idea of the quality, it's pretty easy to find something YOU want.
Show HN: The Loft Club – Monthly access to top restaurants in your city
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#22Hey 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…
Is there a way for me to tell you which restaurants I've already been to so you don't send me there?
Yup, we'll be getting around to that feature really soon. In the meantime, just email us to let us know!
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This might seem weird- but to me, it has the same appeal as television: the selection is already made. Choosing a restaurant to eat at is such a small barrier, but it feels huge (kinda like picking an episode on NetFlix). I definitely see the appeal in getting an e-mail saying: "Hobotron, a table for 2 is reserved at Lait de Tétine this Thursday at 7PM." and when you show up your preferred cocktail is already on the…
This is the problem with ideas like loft. A lot of people think it is a good idea. They give feedback about what they would like to see in a service like this and consider pretty 'neat' at best. Then it pops off the front page and they never consider it again. Making reservations is easy. People will probably not "love" this service, because it isn't even close to essential. ITT a lot of people provide feedback about a product they will never use giving the founders a false sense of feature and product demand.
Re: Show HN: The Loft Club – Monthly access to top restaurants in your city
#24Hey 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.
This should be free. They're either passing up on the money restaurants would pay to bump numbers on slow nights or getting you coming and going, as it were. (There's certainly the possibility that they want to stay ethically clean, but the cynic in me says a random startup I know nothing about is, well, a cash strapped startup).
This isn't to say that they shouldn't take restaurant money, there's certainly precedent for it and people love Yelp. Being transparent (or simply keeping quality up) would be a good check.
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#25When I clicked the link, there was an HN special for $9.99/mo. I thought to myself "that's a little expensive for making 2 phone calls a month, but what the heck, maybe the surprise will be fun." I went to sign up, got through to the credit card phase, and now the price is $19.99.
On top of the feel of bait and switch (although I know this was certainly just a bug), that price feels insane. This is a potentially fun idea to me, or at least certainly something I'd be willing to try for a month, but to be blunt, I think that price point is ludicrous.
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#26About the only thing I can't pay somebody to do for me these days is post on Hacker News. Billion $ idea <- that one is free.
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#27You're assuming that searching restaurants on yelp and then booking is a hassle. It isn't for me and for most part people I know who eat out regularly. It's almost always you go there with your friends or significant other and wait at the bar (get drinks etc) and then get the table.
To be honest, I might have booked like 3 times via Opentable in a year.
I am sure there will be a small section of people wanting to do this but I doubt you will be able to scale to make it a operational business. In addition, it is very expensive.
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#28Not to be a negative HN'er, but this just feels like something people in SF/SV will go crazy about, but will not resonate/scale outside of SF/SV. It's not solving a problem significant enough for the cost. The small subset of people that would pay for this, probably have more efficient means of achieving the same end result (personal assistant, virtual assistant, etc).
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#29When I clicked the link, there was an HN special for $9.99/mo. I thought to myself "that's a little expensive for making 2 phone calls a month, but what the heck, maybe the surprise will be fun." I went to sign up, got through to the credit card phase, and now the price is $19.99. On top of the feel of bait and switch (although I know this was certainly just a bug), that price feels insane. This is a potentially fun…
Sorry you experienced that! We just discovered a bug that didn't persist the offer to the end in a minority of cases, and it's now been fixed. And thanks for your feedback about our prices. Our price at launch is actually derived from other services in the reservations space (ie Table8, TableSaavy), but we're always evaluating our price point.
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#30Is it possible to do a different frequency, like twice per week? 26 times a year isn't much.
That's already over $2100 for a little over one week's worth of meals.