Hey everyone, this is Derrick, the creator of The Loft Club.<p>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.<p>The Loft Club removes all that hassle. Trust us to do the research, and we'll make the reservations for you every two weeks. We've started this small project to scratch our own itch for now, and we'd love to hear your feedback!
When 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.<p>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.
I love that you can specify 1 person...<p>TLC is going to have a nice database of very weird people who would use a service like this to make sure they get to go out to a fancy restaurant twice a month, by themselves...
You'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.<p>To be honest, I might have booked like 3 times via Opentable in a year.<p>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.
> Monsiuer Benjamin<p>It's Monsieur.<p>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.
Not 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).