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We’re F*cked, It’s Over. Or Is It?
- kelukelugames 10y agoPlease change the title to something else.
- noxToken 10y agoAgreed. This title tells nothing of the article, and I don't inherently fault OP for maintaining title integrity.
- karmachameleon2 10y agoYou know, in the real world, the dreaded F-Word is used by just about anyone who's not deeply religious.. and even they might sometimes fail to censor themselves before saying it.
- city41 10y agoThe title gives no indication what the article is about, that's the real problem.
- karmachameleon2 10y agoHow do you know I didn't interpret his message correctly?
- city41 10y agoI agree. The title isn't useful at all. Neither was the first paragraph, had no idea what the article was about.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoNeither are the next several. It takes awhile to get down to the meat of it: "having your neighbor cook for you doesn't work for shit as a business, so we're just going to open a restaurant."
- pavel_lishin 10y ago> The plan was simple yet ambitious: > One month to set up a new business (rent a kitchen, hire a chef, hire motorbike drivers, create the menu, design logo, website, build mobile app for drivers, build first version of the routing algorithm plus complete all the legal and admin paperwork). So... they opened a delivery restaurant with its own app?
- dvcc 10y agoOh god, as I read through it I kind of just started laughing to myself. They opened a chain restaurant -- surely VC-money worthy.
- creshal 10y agoSurely a chain restaurant with its own routing algorithm is worthy a bazillion dollars?
- dvcc 10y ago"We placed ants in a scale model of the entire city. Placed food at the delivery points and recorded their steps. In the end it's the first swarming, multi-node, organic-learning food delivery algorithm."
- pgeorgi 10y agoNow you only have to figure out how to make the ants not take short-cuts (eg. walk over houses)
- pavel_lishin 10y agoYou need to stop thinking inside the box, my friend. My new company Delivr will equip all of our delivery drives with stilts so they can step right over backyards, houses, etc. We're also testing out a new paramotor that will allow them to literally leap over property in their way.
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- dleslie 10y agoLet me save you some time: In the end they ditched their "sharing" economy model of food production and delivery, rented a kitchen and hired staff, and became a delivery service with a teeny tiny menu. It may be successful; the model is as old as civilization and the market allows for new entrants. But it's not easy.
- ferbivore 10y agoOr particularly news-worthy.
- athenot 10y agoAnd their conclusion that "cooking is dying" is a huge stretch. It might be more believable if they had a huge menu of truly authentic items, but that would eat into their business model. Similarily, claiming that "fast food is dying" is because they haven't realized what most fast food engineers have discovered through many years of iteration: at scale, the masses prefer salty, greasy food with habit forming taste characteristics. Still, I wish them luck in their current business.
- gf263 10y ago'Cooking is dying' ugh.
- coldcode 10y agoOnce you get into it its a great article on finding out what really matters to your customers. I also love the name Forky. The title is not really meaningful.
- riebschlager 10y agoThis is just like the time I created a startup where a group of friends in separate locations could select custom drinks and alcoholic beverages using our app which would then be automatically delivered to a location equidistant from each friend in the group. But then we pivoted and just opened a bar.
- danr4 10y agoCTRL + F "revenue" 0 results backspace x7 "margin" 0 results backspace x6 "profit" 0 results backspace x6 "cost" 0 results give up on meaningful data x1 Good content marketing though.
- joezydeco 10y agoSo the whole "what is my mother no longer doing for me?" thing has spread beyond SF? https://twitter.com/azizshamim/status/595285234880491521 https://twitter.com/azizshamim/status/595285234880491521
- athenot 10y agoI'm starting to wonder if most "sharing economy" models wouldn't be better served through some form of co-op. Basically the business equivalent of open-source. Sure, that won't produce a golden egg goose but it might actually serve the users better.
- peterbonney 10y agoI don't understand. It sounds like they ditched the "Uber for home-cooked meals" model and started... a restaurant that offers delivery via app? That doesn't really seem like "the first truly scalable food tech company"; it seems like they are trying to compete with e.g. Seamless by vertically integrating. Which sounds... less scalable probably? But kudos to them for the clever marketing - they got me to read about them, which I guess is the only point.
- zeveb 10y agoIt's weird: all of the images are blurry beyond recognition.
- antisthenes 10y agoI was hoping for an in-depth discussion of Global Climate change, and instead this is a long-winded blog post about what appears to be a failed recipe app. How disappointing.
- creshal 10y agoOh please, it's not a "failed recipe app", it's Uber For® cooking!