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Gauging interest for a new Startup

3 点作者 Apane101超过 10 年前
I&#x27;ve spent the last 6 months building out a web app. It&#x27;s premise is Catering for home cooked meals. You can sign-up as a Caterer, or you can order as a consumer. There are different categories i.e. Italian, Chinese, Japenese, Indian and you can order a REAL home cooked meal from any of these ethnic groups. We&#x27;re creating jobs, and a greater selection of quality food for delivery! We&#x27;re launching in Toronto but will eventually expand into other Cities throughout North America.<p>I&#x27;d like to gauge interest!

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smt88超过 10 年前
I&#x27;ve worked in restaurants. They&#x27;re disgusting. If health inspectors could be flies on the wall, they&#x27;d give every restaurant an &quot;F&quot;.<p>What would happen when buying food from people who have zero regulation and are competing with each other to save on costs?<p>When you increase competition, you create a race to the bottom. Price has to decrease or people go out of business, and they will end up cutting corners.<p>By contrast, Uber is self-regulated. They have a lot of ways to keep drivers accountable (GPS, for example).<p>With Airbnb, you might be put in a shitty place, but it&#x27;s not going to make you sick if someone skimps on the quality.<p>Food is totally different. Not only are you begging regulators to crack down on you and force your vendors to get food licenses, you&#x27;re definitely putting customers at risk.<p>Are you going to monitor the conditions of the home kitchens? Are you going to make sure there aren&#x27;t any rats, or that food doesn&#x27;t sit out in the &quot;danger zone&quot; of temperatures, or that they throw away expired food? Or that they don&#x27;t store food in boxes on the floor?<p>You can have ratings, but you can&#x27;t always taste danger in your food. Many incidents of food poisoning happen after a perfectly enjoyable meal.<p>I don&#x27;t know about Canada, but in the US, you&#x27;d also be the delight of any lawsuit-happy lawyer. If you&#x27;re advertising these services, making the connection, and taking a cut of the proceeds, you&#x27;re going to be responsible for vetting the vendors.<p>All of that in mind, you should already have an airtight liability-insurance policy.
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IgorPartola超过 10 年前
Not living in a large city in the US, sorry not interested.<p>Additionally, if I was living in, say, NYC, why would I have a random person cook my meal instead of ordering excellent takeout? Not saying that what you are building is a bad idea, just wondering how you plan to compete with the hordes of restaurants that deliver and food delivery services for restaurants that don&#x27;t. If it&#x27;s price, then you probably won&#x27;t have much left over. If it&#x27;s novelty, I think it&#x27;ll wear off. Now, if you allowed me to instantly hire wait staff, that would be a much more interesting idea. For example, I recently had a family party where I went running around like a mad person trying to make sure everything was in order. Having wait staff take care of my guests would have been great, but I don&#x27;t want to hire anyone anywhere near even part time, and I&#x27;d need someone roughly vetted and an authority I can complain to if something goes wrong. I bet restaurants would go nuts for this too.
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ASquare超过 10 年前
Serious question - why are you gauging interest AFTER you&#x27;ve spent time&#x2F;money&#x2F;energy building something vs 6 months ago before you even wrote a line of code?
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emcarey超过 10 年前
really awesome startup in oakland is doing something similar and they are AMAZING. check out <a href="http://josephine.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;josephine.com&#x2F;</a>