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Ask HN: Did you implement a lunch picking app at your startup?

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Re: Ask HN: Did you implement a lunch picking app at your startup?

#13
We sell a room and services reservation software, and have set it up so you can order lunch and have it delivered to the office, from a windows desktop client, from a browser, from outlook or from a mobile app. Billing happens automatically through the integrated contracts and billing system. It's somewhat overkill, but we consider it a form of dogfooding. The company is mcs.fm

Re: Ask HN: Did you implement a lunch picking app at your startup?

#15

This sounds like a uniquely American thing to me. I've never heard of this concept anywhere except California. Everywhere I've worked on-site, if people wanted to eat together they just did that weird thing people do and talk to one another .

I don't always feel like eating what other people want to eat, the problem here is finding every day some kind of food that everybody in the group wants to eat.

I always wanted to build an app that would track our preferences every day of the week, and then with machine learning predict what the team wants to eat on any given day.

Re: Ask HN: Did you implement a lunch picking app at your startup?

#16

We had the simplest "app" possible - cross platform, no Go or Rust or React. It was simply the newest member of the team had to go and collect the ordered lunches, organise the menus etc. Simple algo, simple implementation.

This guy knows his computering.

Re: Ask HN: Did you implement a lunch picking app at your startup?

#18
post #15

This sounds like a uniquely American thing to me. I've never heard of this concept anywhere except California. Everywhere I've worked on-site, if people wanted to eat together they just did that weird thing people do and talk to one another .

I don't always feel like eating what other people want to eat, the problem here is finding every day some kind of food that everybody in the group wants to eat. I always wanted to build an app that would track our preferences every day of the week, and then with machine learning predict what the team wants to eat on any given day.

So go eat what you want and let them eat what they want for a day.

I really cannot believe this is a thing.

Re: Ask HN: Did you implement a lunch picking app at your startup?

#20

We had the simplest "app" possible - cross platform, no Go or Rust or React. It was simply the newest member of the team had to go and collect the ordered lunches, organise the menus etc. Simple algo, simple implementation.

“Hey, food intern! Go talk to people, ask them what they want; if they don’t react, tell ’em they’ll get dry bread and water on a rust-covered plate.”
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