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Show HN: Feedback on this subscription commerce + charity project (eat05.com)
So I've been working away at Cilantro in my free time (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2927607) ... and in working with local restaurants, I've learned a lot about the coupon and daily deal space.
I wanted to experiment with a subscription commerce model for restaurants. I just launched it today for my local area (San Luis Obispo):
http://www.eat05.com
Think of it as "Birchbox for Restaurants"
- Consumers pay $9 per month
- They get six to eight 2-for-1 restaurant vouchers
- $4 of the purchase goes to a local food charity (SLO Food Bank so far)
- It's free for restaurants to participate
Surprisingly, it's been easy to get restaurants on board. They're used to paying to run coupons, plus they lose less money than with daily deals. Now, I just need to see if consumers will pay for it. Eventually, I'd like to match restaurant vouchers/coupons with users' tastes (vegan, coffee drinker, night life, children, etc.).
Ideas, feedback and criticism welcome.
Would you pay for something like this in your town?
- callmeed 15y agoLINK: http://www.eat05.com http://www.eat05.com If you're curious about any tech, I used Unbounce for the home page. The signup area is a Rails 3.1 app on Heroku Cedar stack with SSL. Payment processing by Stripe. Oh, and Twitter Bootstrap natch.