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I don't know much about running a bar apart from being a regular and sticking around for closing time every now and then. This looks like an opinionated fronte
by sublinear 3mo ago
I don't know much about running a bar apart from being a regular and sticking around for closing time every now and then.
This looks like an opinionated frontend for a spreadsheet. There are tons of those already. Does this really reduce any of the complexity well enough to be better?
I think people would be more convinced with a demo compared to the existing workflows it's trying to replace.
- adamsiem 3mo agoIt’s hopefully an alternative to paying a company like Orca $200/mo. (It used to be $5000 annually, sold solely on the value of potential losses saved.) https://orcainventory.com/ https://orcainventory.com/
- sublinear 3mo agoThat still costs less than the revenue brought in from a single bar regular (~$100 a week). It also probably works better and staff are more likely to be familiar with it, etc. I'm not saying SaaS is always the right answer, but that's probably why it succeeds at that pricing. How an alternative is pitched really does matter. It's not enough to just point out flaws with the competitor. Open source also requires its own set of incentives to get meaningful contributions. It has to solve a set of problems that are interesting and impactful to the contributors. It sounds like an uphill battle for this project.