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Steve & Alexis wanted to write an app that would allow you to order food from your feature phone. PG thought it was a bad idea, but liked them, so he suggested
by redthrowaway 12y ago
Steve & Alexis wanted to write an app that would allow you to order food from your feature phone. PG thought it was a bad idea, but liked them, so he suggested the "front page of the Internet" idea.[1]
And Swartz was fired, not quit. He went to Germany then didn't show up for a couple weeks when he got back. [2]
[1] http://gwtoday.gwu.edu/reddit-co-founder-speaks-power-open-internet http://gwtoday.gwu.edu/reddit-co-founder-speaks-power-open-i...
[2] http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-05-07-n78.html http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-05-07-n78.html
- cma 12y agoThanks, edited the part about quit. I didn't mean their idea was an infogami in the sense that it was functionally similar to infogami, but rather just that it something that similarly never worked out.
- jacquesm 12y ago> Steve & Alexis wanted to write an app that would allow you to order food from your feature phone. PG thought it was a bad idea, http://www.just-eat.com/ http://www.just-eat.com/
- nostrademons 12y agoThis seems to be a perenially popular bad startup idea. Sergey Brin's previous idea, before teaming up with Larry to found Google, was a startup to let people order pizza via fax machine.
- jacquesm 12y agoIt's not a bad idea at all. But that search engine turned out pretty good for them too.