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Fun read. You're a good friend. I assume there was some additional context about the order in the form that the restaurant filled out, to assist in the end-of-

Fun read. You're a good friend. I assume there was some additional context about the order in the form that the restaurant filled out, to assist in the end-of-month bookkeeping? And unless you built reporting into the MVP, I bet your friend got to learn how to use some kind of database GUI (e.g. phpMyAdmin) and/or basic queries? >The app would assign the order to a free courier, triggering an email. Their Gmail was our mobile app! >The courier would then pick it up, deliver, take cash on delivery, and mark themselves as “free” again. This tripped me up for a second. In this context, "free" indicates that the courier was available to pick up an order and make the delivery.

toyg 5y ago
> I assume there was some additional context about the order in the form that the restaurant filled out, to assist in the end-of-month bookkeeping? You assume that bookkeeping in restaurants is diligent. Which, er... I reckon they were more than happy to just take the cash and apply some creative skills later on.
mzrnsh 5y ago
> I assume there was some additional context about the order in the form that the restaurant filled out, to assist in the end-of-month bookkeeping? Sure, there were a couple extra fields. > And unless you built reporting into the MVP, I bet your friend got to learn how to use some kind of database GUI (e.g. phpMyAdmin) and/or basic queries? I don't really remember, but I bet we'd include an option to export to Excel. This project was built on Rails, and there are readily available gems to export data. Also, I believe we had a dashboard powered by https://github.com/ankane/chartkick https://github.com/ankane/chartkick. Setting it up may have taken 50% of time. Was it necessary? No. Did I mention this in my post, saying we could have done it in a day? Also no :D > This tripped me up for a second. In this context, "free" indicates that the courier was available.. Thanks for catching this, changed it to "available" for clarity

toyg 5y ago

> I assume there was some additional context about the order in the form that the restaurant filled out, to assist in the end-of-month bookkeeping? You assume that bookkeeping in restaurants is diligent. Which, er... I reckon they were more than happy to just take the cash and apply some creative skills later on.

mzrnsh 5y ago

> I assume there was some additional context about the order in the form that the restaurant filled out, to assist in the end-of-month bookkeeping? Sure, there were a couple extra fields. > And unless you built reporting into the MVP, I bet your friend got to learn how to use some kind of database GUI (e.g. phpMyAdmin) and/or basic queries? I don't really remember, but I bet we'd include an option to export to Excel. This project was built on Rails, and there are readily available gems to export data. Also, I believe we had a dashboard powered by https://github.com/ankane/chartkick https://github.com/ankane/chartkick. Setting it up may have taken 50% of time. Was it necessary? No. Did I mention this in my post, saying we could have done it in a day? Also no :D > This tripped me up for a second. In this context, "free" indicates that the courier was available.. Thanks for catching this, changed it to "available" for clarity