If they take phone orders you could just play a pre recorded messages and call them using twillo. I've done this in the past to call many stores and check inventory of an item
I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race
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Re: I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race
#22Oof, and it didn't work. That's pretty rough to find out at mile 200!
Re: I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race
#23Sorry for being kinda off-topic, but what's going on with these small(-ish) businesses configuring their websites to block users randomly through Cloudflare nowadays? I've seen this happened at least 5 times this week clicking random links, they are all local business websites. I'm talking about https://www.caseys.com in this article, which gives me Access denied Error code 1020 You do not have access to www.caseys.c…
Well, Casey’s is not actually smallish, it’s a fortune 500 company publicly traded on NASDAQ (CASY) and has a market cap of over 9 billion.
I guess that makes it even worse. Large companies surely want people around the world to visit their websites for brand recognition even if they don't operate in their regions.
Re: I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race
#24Very nice. A 21st century take on pizzatool.
https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-...
FWIW, there's a pizza restaurant, Waypoint Pizza in Tiburon, which if you ask nicely will deliver on the water in the San Francisco Bay. This comes in handy during weird less serious sailing races like Three Bridge Fiasco.
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#25Colin will make you a pizza while he's delivering it: https://youtu.be/YjyJRTM0knE?si=fes2lbRntUlciPSH
You laugh, but the concept of this funny YouTube video was the actual business model of a SoftBank-backed startup that raised half a billion dollars [1]. The crucial flaw in their otherwise ironclad plan was that the pizza had a tendency to fly around and lose all its toppings when the truck went over a bump in the road. [1]: https://gizmodo.com/zume-softbank-ai-pizza-delivery-stellar-...
They didn't raise half a billion dollars, they were valued at half a billion.
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#26Software, cycling and pizza. Some of my favorite things in life. This project and write-up was thoroughly enjoyed, and has inspired some of my own similar ideas now! Cheers
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
You laugh, but the concept of this funny YouTube video was the actual business model of a SoftBank-backed startup that raised half a billion dollars [1]. The crucial flaw in their otherwise ironclad plan was that the pizza had a tendency to fly around and lose all its toppings when the truck went over a bump in the road. [1]: https://gizmodo.com/zume-softbank-ai-pizza-delivery-stellar-...
They didn't raise half a billion dollars, they were valued at half a billion.
From the article:
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Most notably, the company enjoyed a generous infusion from Japanese investment firm SoftBank, which injected a whopping $375 million into the startup in 2018. By the end of its lifespan, Zume had raised as much as $445 million.
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They actually nearly raised half a bil.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
You laugh, but the concept of this funny YouTube video was the actual business model of a SoftBank-backed startup that raised half a billion dollars [1]. The crucial flaw in their otherwise ironclad plan was that the pizza had a tendency to fly around and lose all its toppings when the truck went over a bump in the road. [1]: https://gizmodo.com/zume-softbank-ai-pizza-delivery-stellar-...
They didn't raise half a billion dollars, they were valued at half a billion.
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Re: I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race
#29This is pretty neat not gonna lie. I wonder now if something similar can be done with Deliveroo or similar - on day X if certain conditions are met (eg: working late), have preprogrammed order Y submitted when approximately Z distance from house.
Why would you lie about this being pretty neat? Seems like a weird thing to clarify.
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#30Dean Karnazes did this in an ultra running race minus the tech. He rolled the pizza up like a burrito and ran with it:
https://gffmag.com/the-raw-endurance-of-ultramarathon-man-de...