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I thought about it and the minimum viable product is much simpler than you think. What you want is a static website with all the menus on it. Just a dumb HTML

by 6510 2y ago

I thought about it and the minimum viable product is much simpler than you think. What you want is a static website with all the menus on it. Just a dumb HTML page would already be enough. You bill them for data entry, they give you their delivery menu. You type the entire menu into your webpage. One under the other. Then you charge them 20 euro per month minimum fee. The restaurants are sorted (by hand) every month by how much they've paid. The fee has to be that small to force all restaurants to participate.

sfont 2y ago
How are the orders getting to the restaurants? Early versions of this concept would fax them. Having a fax machine is no longer common. You also can’t expect to rely on the supplier (restaurant) proactively doing something such as checking an email or logging in to a webpage…
- 6510 2y ago
  They are already taking orders by phone. In my opinion there is no urgency to replace this. The question to ask is what you can do for the customer. Bringing all the menu cards together in the same format adds value. You don't even need a search engine. First upgrade agenda point for automation would be a restaurant login so that they can save money by doing the menu data entry themselves. edit: The guy cant code, all the value will have to come from him promoting the website.
changer1 2y ago
i wasn't able to think that simpler. the idea is exactly this. but how can i build it? i want to remove the third party delivery apps. im going to connect customers directly to restaurants. your recommendation sounds similar to early doordash. my concern here is about the customer type. back in those days people could ameteur looking products but i feel like its impossible. instead of giving their phone number, i wanna create a simple system that similar to other food delivery apps.it is going to take your personal information - phone number, name, adress- and your order, deliver it to the restaurant as a message and display the order to the restaurant as a panel. is that sounds ok?

by 6510 2y ago

sfont 2y ago

How are the orders getting to the restaurants? Early versions of this concept would fax them. Having a fax machine is no longer common. You also can’t expect to rely on the supplier (restaurant) proactively doing something such as checking an email or logging in to a webpage…

6510 2y ago
They are already taking orders by phone. In my opinion there is no urgency to replace this. The question to ask is what you can do for the customer. Bringing all the menu cards together in the same format adds value. You don't even need a search engine. First upgrade agenda point for automation would be a restaurant login so that they can save money by doing the menu data entry themselves. edit: The guy cant code, all the value will have to come from him promoting the website.

changer1 2y ago

i wasn't able to think that simpler. the idea is exactly this. but how can i build it? i want to remove the third party delivery apps. im going to connect customers directly to restaurants. your recommendation sounds similar to early doordash. my concern here is about the customer type. back in those days people could ameteur looking products but i feel like its impossible. instead of giving their phone number, i wanna create a simple system that similar to other food delivery apps.it is going to take your personal information - phone number, name, adress- and your order, deliver it to the restaurant as a message and display the order to the restaurant as a panel. is that sounds ok?