Show HN: Company lunch orders were hectic, so I made FoodRun
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Re: Show HN: Company lunch orders were hectic, so I made FoodRun
#2Demo link is in the GitHub README.
A small side project that I made to make our company lunch orders less hectic. I tried to keep it simple and straightforward, and I had fun learning some of the subtleties to AWS.
Thanks for looking!
Re: Show HN: Company lunch orders were hectic, so I made FoodRun
#3This is beautiful. Really love the timed ordering idea.
Re: Show HN: Company lunch orders were hectic, so I made FoodRun
#4The order should update automatically if someone else adds something. Simple AJAX polling would suffice.
Re: Show HN: Company lunch orders were hectic, so I made FoodRun
#5The order should update automatically if someone else adds something. Simple AJAX polling would suffice.
Agree. I haven't learned how to do that yet, but polling for non-expired orders is what I want to add next.
Re: Show HN: Company lunch orders were hectic, so I made FoodRun
#6Cool project Kyle! this is a brilliant idea simple and effective :D
Re: Show HN: Company lunch orders were hectic, so I made FoodRun
#7The order should update automatically if someone else adds something. Simple AJAX polling would suffice.
Agree. I haven't learned how to do that yet, but polling for non-expired orders is what I want to add next.
If you'd like to have these problems solved for you, give Meteor.js a try. Almost everything's reactive out of the box. It could be perfect for a small, realtime app like this.
Re: Show HN: Company lunch orders were hectic, so I made FoodRun
#8I work alone but wish I worked in an office so I could set this up :P
I'm thinking about my friend who works at a busy production company that could probably benefit from setting this up for his co-workers but he is not technically inclined.
I think it would make sense for you to host this like pastebin/bitly where users can generate their own order urls that you host from your own site?