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Show HN: Order pizza with random toppings
- maturz 9y agoAs a owner of a dice I don't see a great need for this even if it was available at my location. The dice solution also has a lot more features such as covering allergies, absolutely-not-toppings or just adding drinks. I guess if saving the surprise until you actually open the box is important you could either have a friend roll for you or give your local pizza place a dice (or url) and promise a tip if they roll for you. Who knows, maybe they would even like the idea of adding that to their menu. If you want to complicate things a bit it should not be very difficult to just make a user script that makes a random order for you on your favorite pizza site.
- MiddleEndian 9y agoBack before Netflix decided my address was fake and cancelled my account, and dvds were more relevant, I maintained a 500 length movie queue. When I got a dvd in the mail, it would be something I chose years in advance and I'd not look at the title on the envelope. The surprise from my past self was a great part of the experience.
- Jetroid 9y agoIt'd probably be valuable to add settings that consider allergies. Vegetarian and gluten free too. Looks interesting, though!
- dcwca 9y agoThat’s the roulette part. Not everyone wins!
- ianai 9y agoAye hardly seems good spirited when not taking either of those into account would result in unpalatable food a high percentage of time.
- chrisseaton 9y ago> would result in unpalatable food a high percentage of time That's the point. Do you understand what 'roulette' means in this context? When you play roulette you more often than not lose all your money and have nothing to show for it. Like an inedible pizza. If you made it so you always got something nice to eat... it wouldn't be roulette, would it?
- oneeyedpigeon 9y agoYou understand the difference between something that's not very nice and something which someone cannot possibly eat at all, right? As a vegetarian, I can imagine some pretty gross combinations of pizza that I still can eat, but I'm at a massive disadvantage if I get something I cannot eat at all.
- chrisseaton 9y ago> I'm at a massive disadvantage if I get something I cannot eat at all Yes.... like a game of roulette where you sometimes lose it all and get nothing out of it at all.
- Fnoord 9y agoYour definition of success is just an excuse for bad software, with the reasoning being "cause RL roulette works like this as well". Reminds me of car analogies. What you desire is a very basic, boring version of roulette which you can easily make with a few lines of Python code. random.randrange(0, 4) # number of toppings random.randrange(1, 100) # this in a loop iterating with result of previous amount, and this from a database where each number representing a topping. Its much more fun to do some advanced stuff with randomisation such as adding weights, blacklists, whitelists, edible combinations, etc. When you get edible results based on randomisation is when I call it a success. Second, you're excluding a significant amount of people [1] by not catering to vegetarians. Regardless of your dietary preference this is not done in 2017. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country
- vortico 9y agoYou don't get to remove numbers from the game roulette. If you need to be picky for whatever reason (even if completely justified), don't play the game. Adding those features would make the website just be another pizza ordering website and would lose its gimmick.
- nasmorn 9y agoLike these audiences would appreciate uncertainty in their food ordering. That must be a very small overlap in the Venn diagram
- camtarn 9y agoPossibly, but to be honest Domino's doesn't have a great selection for vegetarians anyway, at least in the UK, so there wouldn't be a lot of ingredients to choose from.
- rubyfan 9y agoThis is awesome, I’m a little too chicken to put my money down though. It’d be fun just to see the random options or maybe other people’s previous randomness.
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- maxerickson 9y agoThis exists on some other axis than fear. Whimsy or something like that.
- vermontdevil 9y agoAnchovy Pineapple Pizza on the way!
- codingdave 9y agoThis is a nice novelty idea, but there is no way I'm entering in my info just to see what kinds of results pop up. Now, if you showed some random results, and THEN had an ordering process where we entered our info, you might get some actual use.
- cryptoz 9y agoYou can enter fake info. Seems like you don't get to know what kind of results pop up until the pizza is physically at your door
- yeukhon 9y agoNow if you are allergic to certain thing? There should be an option to opt out.
- reaperducer 9y agoThere is. It's called not ordering. No one is forcing you to use Random Pizza.
- yeukhon 9y agoHa! This means no one should take any user feedback! Ha! But nope, the parent comment was not meant for you anyway.
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- cryptoz 9y ago25 pizzas, with random ingredients, and delivery on New Years Eve to a major city: "Time To Your Door: 44-74 minutes" I doubt it. I can't afford to try it, but I doubt it. Will it take my $770 and deliver me 25 pizzas in less than 1 hour and 15 minutes on NYE? I would be absolutely shocked. I recommend adding a disclaimer, or a time "estimate" phrase, or something. Do the estimates come from Dominos? Are they real? Shockingly wicked fast estimates if you ask me.
- rscott 9y agoThe estimates are real and from Dominos. Thanks for the feedback, that's a good catch. I'll be adding that verbiage.
- digi_owl 9y agoI wonder of those involve Dominos "deliverator" van. http://www.dominosdxp.com/ http://www.dominosdxp.com/
- sandworm101 9y agoI saw Dominos pizza tech guy interviewed a while back about their delivery bags. He spoke of one day of not just keeping the pizza warm, but having it having cook while being delivered. Custom vehicles could make that happen and I'm sure somewhere in that organization someone is trying to mount a pizza oven in a 92 chevy.
- heinrichf 9y agoThat actually already exists by a startup in the valley: https://zumepizza.com/ https://zumepizza.com/ http://www.businessinsider.com/zume-pizza-robot-expansion-2017-6/#its-retrofitted-to-hold-56-ovens-if-an-order-comes-from-a-location-more-than-12-minutes-from-zumes-kitchen-the-pizza-will-be-loaded-into-an-oven-partly-cooked-and-unboxed-20 http://www.businessinsider.com/zume-pizza-robot-expansion-20...
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- hawktheslayer 9y agoClever scrolling taglines. Seems like your target audience would be a party crowd, and you might want to play that up a bit.
- keehun 9y agoInteresting idea. The website reminds me strongly of Grubhub from its coloring to the typing-taglines. Did this idea begin as a parody of GrubHub? Not a criticism—-actually curious.
- rscott 9y agoI see what you mean, but no actually. I really just Googled "what color makes people hungry" and picked a red I liked!
- nasso 9y agoRandom between 0 and 4 toppings? 0 toppings is a pretty boring pizza...
- pronoiac 9y agoThis reminds me of None Pizza with Left Beef, which just celebrated its tenth anniversary: * original: http://www.thesneeze.com/2007/the-great-pizza-orientation-test.php http://www.thesneeze.com/2007/the-great-pizza-orientation-te... * anniversary stories: https://gizmodo.com/reflections-on-the-10th-anniversary-of-none-pizza-with-1819692097 https://gizmodo.com/reflections-on-the-10th-anniversary-of-n... and https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/hbd-none-pizza-with-left-beef https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/hbd-none-pizza-w...
- ribs 9y agoI’d never heard of that before, and my friends call me “Pizza Larry”. THANK YOU.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoFor those wary of clicking the Buzzfeed link, it is exactly as content-free as you would expect. (Although, surprisingly, they have done some pretty nifty journalism from time to time.)
- colinsidoti 9y agoI like this, but that's probably because I buy 5 pizzas or so fairly frequently and hate choosing the toppings. That said, I'd prefer roulette on their medium pizzas that seem to be on sale perpetually. That with a modest upcharge and I might use it.
- tenryuu 9y agoSent this to my friend in the next room, he yelled back his exact thoughts. He wants to say that "you're a monster and why is this a thing" I for one welcome adding an element of chaos into food ordering
- oliv__ 9y ago$34.61 estimated for my random pizza. That's a hell of an expensive pizza.
- mod 9y agoI don't know where it gets ordered from, but a place in my town has pizzas that are about $30-$40 and they're worth it. For one, they're just amazing pizza, made by an amazing local entrepreneur, with a cool little pizza shop. For two, it's a meal out for 3 or 4 (they don't actually deliver), which isn't a bad price to eat out. If it's Dominos, then I feel your pain.
- rubyn00bie 9y agoIt says on the page all orders are fullfilled by dominos. So yeah that is a pretty ludicrous price for a dominos pizza.
- guidedlight 9y agoOn the website, it says Dominos.
- gerhardi 9y agoI don’t probably know WTF is a PIZZA (even a large one), that is worth it, at over $/€ 15-20... seems like we need a new big mac index! Is a $30+ pizza reality? Edit: it’s probably just the common salary & cost level difference here at the play, if in some places even a junior can make over 100k / year..
- reaperducer 9y agoThere's a place by me that makes a very good $32 pizza. It's also 40 inches across, so I have to borrow the neighbor's truck to go pick it up.
- Moter8 9y agoHonestly, I'm fine eating a nice deep-frozen (almost typed fried) pizza that costs 1,25€, Germany. I eat 2 or 3 per week. I have no clue why people would buy 20$ Pizzas :D
- BlytheSchuma 9y agoNeeds the delivery guy shouting "Di Di Mau!" at you once he gives you the pen to sign your receipt.
- sunsetMurk 9y agoCare to share your 'stack'? front-end/back-end/API's?
- madamelic 9y agoI am going to guess they are using: https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-dominos-pizza-api https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-dominos-pizza-api to order. :)
- rscott 9y agoSure! On the front end it's HTML, CSS, and jQuery - no hip JS frameworks nor complex build pipelines. Backend is node and express. The dominos API is https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-dominos-pizza-api https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-dominos-pizza-api, as mentioned below. Everything is hosted in AWS on Elastic Beanstalk on a few t2.micro instances.
- darkstar999 9y agoI priced a random 3 topping large pizza on Dominos website: $17.92 which includes delivery fee but no tip. Roulette: $23.70 including tip.
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- kylnew 9y agoThere's a funny novelty to this that you can't deny and the user experience does make it super fast to get a pizza. I'm not sure I see myself using it outside of an office joke but why not make a little profit from those who want to do this?
- noncoml 9y agoI got one with extra anchovies. Husband not happy.
- reaperducer 9y agoCall them "free range Atlantic micro branzino" and see if that works!
- hartator 9y agoAI is truly taking over. Over-engineering solution: Feedback the reviews from customers to a ML algorithm that have for inputs the actual pizza, time, and photos of food from the customer Instagram to truly make the best pizza each time.
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- kuschku 9y agoDominos is available in dozens of countries around the world, since 2017, about half their shops are outside the US, and they even offer fully robotized deliveries in parts of Germany and the Netherlands[1]. And yet, roulette.pizza is US-only. I mean, you had to specifically go and restrict the location, compared to what the site you’re getting the pizzas from offers. Why? ________________________ [1] https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/31/soon-your-pizza-will-be-ordered-made-and-delivered-through-robots/ https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/31/soon-your-pizza-will-be-o...
- Ambroos 9y agoDominos doesn't use the same web platform everywhere. Dominos Belgium for example shares a platform used by some other countries (FR, DE, NL, AU and more) which is completely different from the US one. And there are a few more codebases out there. Same thing with Starbucks. Our Starbuckses are actually part of the Autogrill group and only share the products and branding with the "real" US Starbucks, none of the extra stuff/amenities carried over. (Starbucks in Belgium doesn't even have a website, let alone an app, for example.)
- kuschku 9y agoThat sucks, honestly. So they managed to get consistent branding, but couldn't even offer a consistent API?
- amelius 9y ago> All orders are fulfilled through Dominos. With Dominos pizza, I already have the feeling my toppings are random. That is, sometimes I get a lot of topping, and most of the time but not always I get very little topping.
- Larrikin 9y agoI think all the major chains have a policy in place where you get the exact same amount of toppings by weight no matter what you order. If you only order pepperoni you get a ton of pepperoni, but if you order supreme you get less of everything but it ends up being the same overall by weight.
- hawkice 9y agoThis is highly recommended to me by excellent pizza makers. You don't want to overtop the pizza, it'll get soggy or greasy if you add too much
- ryanmarsh 9y agoTried to order and got an error. “Whoops - something didn't go right with the order, but you weren't charged.” Please email me. I want to try this. Email is in my bio.
- unclebucknasty 9y agoGiven the state of the world, hopefully we technologists will consider using our prodigious collective talents in meaningful ways in 2018.
- exikyut 9y agoUI enhancement suggestion: "May the odds be ever in your flavor."
- wyclif 9y agoConcept (but not implementation) reminds me a little of the old-school Pizza Party terminal app from the '90s: https://youtu.be/J691aLfkWP0 https://youtu.be/J691aLfkWP0
- Exuma 9y agoIt should include a 'no anchovies' option
- rscott 9y agoAnchovies are actually the only topping I don't include intentionally!
- PascLeRasc 9y agoA whole thread on automated pizza with no Snow Crash jokes? I'm disappointed.
- anvius 9y agoNooooo! It could be pineapple!!! :)
- mmmrtl 9y agoFeature request: randomize the delivery timing as well! I'd like a random pizza to show up at some point in 2018, ideally once I've forgotten this service exists. Random address may or may not be going too far. How about I enter how much money I'm willing to spend, and the website comes up with an order that fits the constraint? Completely random grubhub orders would be fun, too.
- jononor 9y agoAdd a browser plugin that detects when you are hungry based on how quickly you switch tab to something meaningless and just feedscrooll. Popup which asks, are you hungry, want me to order you a pizza on XX? [Yes Please!, Schedule delivery for Later, Not Today ]