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by dealmak3r 6y ago
Great ideas - yeah we send photos of the food plated at the restaurant as part of the experience. We might have to do the plates thing as you suggest as well...
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
We intend to stay a marketplace and partner with restaurants - right now the pool of restaurants is small because we are looking at high end 'tasting menu' type restaurants. But as we scale up, standard 1 app - 2 entrees - 1 desse
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
Yeah - I guess our audience is really people who find going to the restaurant challenging. Busy parents and people who are sick of the scene are our main diners.
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
So the menus rotate about once per month for most restaurants. And all of a sudden diners have to scroll through a ton of menus to find something they want. We can't use item-to-item collaborative filter because we always have a sparse
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
This is great to hear! So happy you liked it.
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
Cool thanks! I've tried Goldbelly and the issue is it's not 'fun' nor is it really nice. Seems there is a big focus on nostalgia, which is not what I'm after... it'll be interesting to see how things unfold
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
Would love to talk to you about the different dishes - can you email us hi@gettaste.com We can change a lot of the dish experiences.
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
This is a really good idea.
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
Well - at a high level the farther out we go and the busier the people (parents for example) the stronger the thesis is and the more convenient we seem.
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
Generally we've gotten rave reviews on the quality and people have fun doing the finishing instructions. We have a satisfaction guarantee so if you're not happy we will make it right.
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
Yeah right now you get a sporadic one here and there and we're trying to make it a consistent experience all in one place. Reminds me of early days when I started using airbnb - I was also randomly doing this on craigslist...
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
Yup, we aim to get the finishing component to be less than 5 minutes. That's the best tradeoff we've found - minimal work and way better quality. We're open to new ideas on the word too!
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
Thanks! And yeah we totally agree nothing will replace the restaurant. But what about all the folks who are busy and find it hard to access the food. We're making it for them so access to nice food can be democratized.
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
Yeah (5) is where we are exploring. There's basically a spectrum between groceries and cooking to sitting at a restaurant. Taste is 'precooked and de-constructed' so all the condiments, and crunchy stuff is separate. Finishin
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
Yeah - our core thesis is that the demand has always been there, this is why people travel into cities on weekends for food. And if we can make it way easier to access then people would have nice dinners more. There was a study that 40% of
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
We compete. But Tock started as a reservations platform and shifted to delivery. We think nice dinners at home is a pretty different category so the solution may look very different - for example we have a Dining Notes feature that hosts pl
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
Well, we currently have the special menus because it's a high end product. But the demand for nice dinners should be way higher so we can launch our own 'model 3' as we scale.
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
All the dishes are pre-cooked. So it's just oven or microwave. It really feels like the instagram of food, where it's super easy to put together but gives you a nice result.
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
Hum interesting! We certainly want to serve folks just like you. We're actually thinking about hiring refrigerated vans and driving out on a route - with sufficient density it might work. Or maybe UPS the food?
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
we think the demand has always been there, because busy people who are just out of reach of food hubs have to do a lot of work to access the great restaurants. (reservation, babysitter, train/uber cost, travel time, worried about getti
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
Hi there! Yup there is a request Taste link on the homepage, also here for convenience: https://form.jotform.com/201998377891172
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Launch HN: Taste (YC W21) – Recreate nice restaurant experiences at home(gettaste.com)
75 points by dealmak3r 6y ago|61 comments
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by dealmak3r 6y ago
Hi HN! Jeff and Daryl here. We’re founders of Taste ( https://gettaste.com ), a marketplace where you can order multi-course dinners from nicer restaurants. Daryl and I became friends because we both loved to hack on projects. In
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Hinton, LeCun, and Bengio at Turing Panel. A Major AI Revolution Is Coming(towardsdatascience.com)
3 points by dealmak3r 7y ago|0 comments