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I'm curious as to how a basic app could replace the on demand delivery logistics / handle the volume that a platform like UberEats sends to restaurants ? Maybe
by WrkInProgress 6y ago
I'm curious as to how a basic app could replace the on demand delivery logistics / handle the volume that a platform like UberEats sends to restaurants ?
Maybe my urban area is different but restaurants here are doing 10+ orders per hour across all delivery channels. The bottleneck becomes the # of delivery couriers available and smartly assigning them to deliveries.
- gricardo99 6y agoI agree with this. It's seems to me that it's much more than "hiring a few developers to build a basic app." There's the cost of delivery personnel, and having enough delivery windows to be practical for customers. It seems to me there are benefits from scale, and a large, aggregated platform that make delivery feasible for many restaurants.
- mewpmewp2 6y agoYeah definitely. I see tremendous value for such middle man services. I think all the hate is pretty irrational. This is the optimal way.
- draw_down 6y agoPeople on HN are constantly underestimating the effort involved in basically anything ("why does this company have so many employees?"), so yeah that's a dumb point. But GP is right that it's a bad business propped up by VC cash, I just don't see why that should bother me as an end consumer. HN often acts as if bad business models are offensive on a moral level, but personally, if I'm getting something that would have been even more expensive without the VC subsidy, I do not have a problem with that. The P&L is someone else's problem.