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Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by cyberrock »

Maybe we're not going to the same places but "just having a website for rates and hours" is a SAT problem for salons/tattoo parlors. They need to know what you want and also show flattering photos of what they can do (and also comply with the growing mountain of privacy regulations), determine if you have any staff preferences and when staff is available for whatever you're requesting, and compute the available times grid. If you just want a speedcut, that's not necessarily what those shops are optimizing for.

Even if they have the tech from an existing SaaS solution or from vibe coding, they still gotta diligently update the source data from staff. You can't blame anyone for giving up, posting their phone number and a few pictures on social media, and just writing reservations down on paper.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by throwaway27448 »

onion2k wrote: post #112
janalsncm wrote: post #19

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Yeah, setting up a website is a pain. But in reality there’s only a handful of things people care about for your restaurant: what, when, and where. Put up your menu, put up your hours, and put up your location. And a phone number.

But in reality there’s only a handful of things people care about for your restaurant: what, when, and where. Put up your menu, put up your hours, and put up your location. And a phone number. It's those things but more as questions than things they want to read. What people actually care about for a restaurant is: "Can you tell me if the food is good?" "Can you tell me are the staff great?" "Can you tell me what doe…

> a restaurant could happily run for decades with just an Instagram page these days and it'd make no difference to their success.

Well they still need a website with a menu and hours or I'm not going to be there. You can't view an instagram page without an account.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by xmprt »

999900000999 wrote: post #81
palmotea wrote: post #48

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> Do you have any justification in mind for the “free service” being funded by tax payers? Why should it be free for the people who need it, and why should tax payers fund it? Because the government should provide useful services. It should be funded by tax dollars because I'm tried of libertarians, and it's well-demonstrated that the free market has consumer hostile incentives that I'm sick of.

Alright cool. Your assuming the local government employed webmaster won't favor his friends restaurants. Craigslist basically is this, and it's more or less free.

Forgive me for assuming that the government owned service would be more transparent/serve the people better than a privately owned, closed source, platform that's explicitly funded by ads and so is transparently corrupt. Even your worst case scenario for this would be equivalent to what we already have.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by Apocryphon »

xmprt wrote: post #115
Gigachad wrote: post #94

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People put that stuff up on Google maps, Facebook, and Instagram now. I know it’s not popular with the crowd here, but those platforms are free, easy to use, and where the customers are. The mainstream options for a website like squarespace are absurdly expensive.

Yes and no. I find the restaurant on Google maps but 9/10 times the menu is either outdated or not properly structured and having a link to the menu website is better. So Google maps is the top of the funnel but I still appreciate a website.

Really the previous comment should have mentioned Yelp, and perhaps Tripadvisor for non-American customers.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by bandrami »

miramba wrote: post #40
janalsncm wrote: post #19

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Yeah, setting up a website is a pain. But in reality there’s only a handful of things people care about for your restaurant: what, when, and where. Put up your menu, put up your hours, and put up your location. And a phone number.

Menus change ie seasonal, and there is a daily changing handwritten chalkboard: Make a photo, put it on IG. Hours change: This week only opened from 8 instead 7: Post it on IG. Who has the time to answer a phonecall? And who uses phone numbers these days anyway? Text me on whatsapp like everyone else does. Disclaimer: Don‘t use IG. But if I want to know if our favourite pizza place is open (cook travels to football g…

It's a trend in Sri Lanka for some reason to put your menu on Instagram... as a reel. Because you don't want your customers to have more than 15 seconds to view what you serve.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by throwaway27448 »

Gigachad wrote: post #94
janalsncm wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, setting up a website is a pain. But in reality there’s only a handful of things people care about for your restaurant: what, when, and where. Put up your menu, put up your hours, and put up your location. And a phone number.

People put that stuff up on Google maps, Facebook, and Instagram now. I know it’s not popular with the crowd here, but those platforms are free, easy to use, and where the customers are. The mainstream options for a website like squarespace are absurdly expensive.

Google maps makes sense at least, but you're straight losing money if all you have is an instagram page. I can't tell if the facebook mention is a joke or not.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by pennaMan »

the sudden left turn into political bullshit really left a sour taste

and it's mostly just the same walled garden rant we've all heard and even made a variant ourselves

is this the type of content we have devolved into on here? I'd take endless ai slop over endless random cringe political posturing any day

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by desas »

unmole wrote: post #66
vasco wrote: post #54

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I'm sure I've read they support this if you email them. It's a manual action but if you're based in Europe they will have to do it by law.

> Europe they will have to do it by law. Realistically, they can simply ignore it with no consequences.

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