benlarcey

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by benlarcey 6y ago
We have around 200 restaurants using the system right now. This would be great, but the problem is you need huge scale for this to be generally useful. I think once/if we hit around 2000, this will be something to think about building.
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by benlarcey 6y ago
It's not on the roadmap right now, the percentage of restaurants with the capability and desire to self-host software is very low.
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by benlarcey 6y ago
I'm not very worried although it's somewhat of a concern. Restaurant-style online ordering matches drug delivery nicely. However, the KYC required for accepting card payments is a pretty good safety net to catch this.
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by benlarcey 6y ago
Thanks! We've had ~200 odd signups so far, hopefully some will find it useful. If you have specific improvements, would love to hear them.
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by benlarcey 6y ago
No, definitely not! I couldn't see anything in the logs. So I assume not all required fields were filled out when creating the store. Highlighting those needs some work. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by benlarcey 6y ago
Hi HN. I put this together over the last 2-3 weeks to help the many restaurants and retailers currently unable to trade. Whilst many operators in large cities have systems in place to handle a rapid change in operations, there's the v
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Show HN: A free online ordering system for restaurants(order.storekit.com)
78 points by benlarcey 6y ago|20 comments
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Show HN: Ecomm.design – Curated Ecommerce Store Design and Tech(ecomm.design)
6 points by benlarcey 10y ago|0 comments
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by benlarcey 11y ago
I'm not sure how strict you should go, we have gone to the absolute maximum - and have to deal with customer service issues / abandoned checkouts daily. But even requiring the ZIP code to be correct made a big difference. We'
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by benlarcey 11y ago
I'm actually in the same space selling "hoverboards" and have been massively hit with fraudulent transactions. Luckily we realised fairly quickly and enforced draconian fraud checks, we're missing out on potential sales
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iPad Point of Sale by Bluebird(bluebird-global.com)
1 points by benlarcey 12y ago|0 comments
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by benlarcey 12y ago
Yeah, nativ.ly is the network. See here: http://nativ.ly/medium-partners-with-bmw-to-produce-a-digita...
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by benlarcey 12y ago
Whilst I've never used adSense much, this does corroborate with chatter in SEO/webmaster forums, especially around 2012. The paragraph on G analytics is also very interesting, it never seems to line up with other tracking tools li
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by benlarcey 12y ago
Could only get it to work after a few tries unfortunately. Great to see some more options in the exit-intent space, but definitely needs some refinement; the form fields on the pop up won't accept any inputs.
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by benlarcey 12y ago
Interesting note I saw in your Flippa listing; you're outsourcing your blog posts. I'm currently working on a marketplace that aims to ease this process. Would you mind sharing how you when about it? Odesk, freelancer.com?
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by benlarcey 13y ago
How much weight do you put on assisted conversions (VTC within perfect audience)? I've found that aCPA for my site is great at also around $5 but the vast majority of these conversions are assisted conversions, i.e. not direct click th
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by benlarcey 13y ago
As mentioned time machine is a great feature, but doesn't OS X auto save files you're working on with its versions? You might want to double check that it hasn't got past versions saved.
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by benlarcey 13y ago
Yep, this is possible and a much better use of ad spend that's allocated for FB. The only downside is the admin required to single out individual posts for paid (fake) promotion. It's also a much cheaper method than paying FB to p
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Manual Link Penalties & The Google Penguin Algorithm(seobook.com)
2 points by benlarcey 13y ago|0 comments
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by benlarcey 13y ago
Seems to be much the same, but with a slightly more b2b marketing element and higher pricing with less data! Have used builtwith before and was very happy with their monthly ($299) plan. If anything I'd expect a competitor to offer low
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by benlarcey 13y ago
Looks like you're selling banners on the right hand side and not nofollowing them, be careful as that's a Google crime and you may find yourself on the receiving end of a Google penalty.
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by benlarcey 13y ago
Great idea but I don't think it's the solution to the captcha problem. There's a lot of visual noise for a person to analyse and I found it considerably harder than reCaptcha types. However that may be a bonus for deterring h
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by benlarcey 13y ago
Interesting you're spending at least 10% of monthly revenue on BounceExchange. Does it provide ROI? The product looks great but the pricing is another matter!
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by benlarcey 13y ago
Followgen? Experimented with it and although provided some value it ultimately got our account permanently suspended.