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Interesting idea, but a few points: -Who are you targeting? People who bike? Teenagers? -The $ one receives is essentially the tip right, so is that enough to

by hansy 16y ago

Interesting idea, but a few points: -Who are you targeting? People who bike? Teenagers? -The $ one receives is essentially the tip right, so is that enough to justify the slight inconvenience of picking up package, routing to destination, spending time at destination, then returning back home? -Would you consider expanding this to businesses outside of restaurants that normally don't have delivery services (e.g. hardware stores, video game stores, etc.) -How do you verify "good" delivery man? Track record? How do you establish good track record? I'd be super interested to see how far you can run with this crazy idea lol.

aherlambang 16y ago
Yea...it's kind of a crazy idea I know, asking people to be delivery man. -I am targeting mostly people with cars, maybe bike. As of age group, I am thinking of 18 - 40. -Yes the $ is the tip..I think it will vary depending on what the restaurant/business is willing to offer. People can either take it or not. The system could give the business a recommendation at what rate people usually take the deal. - I am actually planning to expand it even further not just beyond businesses, but as a replacement of USPS, Fedex, UPS. Imagine about it, the market of people using this is basically people delivering/shipping things. I bet if shipping was made more social, it would be more effective than USPS. It just needs a system that coordinate all of this and that's what I am trying to do here. - To verify the delivery man, I was thinking of having the user to put a security deposit first (to cover the lost cost if someone ran away with the item) when initially registering. It will be hold after a user gets X amount of positive feedback and after that it's just reputation from the business/merchant. One of my inspiration of this idea is based of my experience when going back from school. Almost every time I went back to my apartment from school, I always show this same pizza delivery guy all the time, I know his pizza store is located along my route of school - home. Then I had a thought that I would want to deliver it, won't cost me anything too much, it lies along my usual route, cost me probably 5 minute, and I might be getting $5++ each time. Not bad as an extra money for college kids right.

by hansy 16y ago

aherlambang 16y ago

Yea...it's kind of a crazy idea I know, asking people to be delivery man. -I am targeting mostly people with cars, maybe bike. As of age group, I am thinking of 18 - 40. -Yes the $ is the tip..I think it will vary depending on what the restaurant/business is willing to offer. People can either take it or not. The system could give the business a recommendation at what rate people usually take the deal. - I am actually planning to expand it even further not just beyond businesses, but as a replacement of USPS, Fedex, UPS. Imagine about it, the market of people using this is basically people delivering/shipping things. I bet if shipping was made more social, it would be more effective than USPS. It just needs a system that coordinate all of this and that's what I am trying to do here. - To verify the delivery man, I was thinking of having the user to put a security deposit first (to cover the lost cost if someone ran away with the item) when initially registering. It will be hold after a user gets X amount of positive feedback and after that it's just reputation from the business/merchant. One of my inspiration of this idea is based of my experience when going back from school. Almost every time I went back to my apartment from school, I always show this same pizza delivery guy all the time, I know his pizza store is located along my route of school - home. Then I had a thought that I would want to deliver it, won't cost me anything too much, it lies along my usual route, cost me probably 5 minute, and I might be getting $5++ each time. Not bad as an extra money for college kids right.