paddoq

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by paddoq 8y ago
Hi, yes we have an API service. We have had interest in an app, and do plan to release one, we are beta testing right now for IOS and Android.
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by paddoq 8y ago
Thanks! I will do that. I appreciate it.
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by paddoq 8y ago
We roll data off the site after 30 days, so you are only looking at recent history, and also not every report goes live on the site. I think the largest we had reported in this period are maybe a couple of cases citing between 20 and 40 peo
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by paddoq 8y ago
Agreed, I expect we would use it to supplement but not supplant human reviews.
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by paddoq 8y ago
There are three main types of contaminants that can occur: physical, chemical, and biological. Epidemiologists tend to focus on the last one. We are not biased toward any of them, we welcome reports from anything that can harm consumers. W
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by paddoq 8y ago
Good! glad to hear it :) Thanks for the tip re the real esate perspective, I had not thought of it that way. The publicly listed companies definitely have a larger group of participants who care about the outcomes, in their investors. ----
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by paddoq 8y ago
Yes. Dinesafe.org sells data and data intelligence from iwaspoisoned.com
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by paddoq 8y ago
Iwaspoisoned.com is the site i think you meant to look at. It shows the reports etc, this is the consumer facing site.
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by paddoq 8y ago
Once we receive and moderate your report. It will go to public health. There are many paths it can take from there. We don't require lab tests, that is just a potential scenario, most common where there is either an important (deadly)
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by paddoq 8y ago
1. What incentivizes people to report ? Social responsibility/concerns for others is the most common reason given when we survey people. For many people a proper case of food poisoning is frightening and extremely motivating. 2. On tru
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by paddoq 8y ago
ps. Not tested on us. We have never been approached once by a large organization, or their law firm
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by paddoq 8y ago
From us the data to goes to the governing public health agency. Each spammer would need to individually re-present their case to that agency including a 72 hour food history, and potentially bio testing. The next steps can include epidemiol
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by paddoq 8y ago
Thanks. Yes is is true, many state and city health agencies are under difficutl budget constraints, in some cases having as few as a third of the people needed to meet inspection targets
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by paddoq 8y ago
Ha. ex-finance guy, nothing to do with law. Thanks for the well wishes. As fyi - I have been approached by law firms for lead generation, but I think only twice ever. As I understand it, succesfully litigating a foodborne illness case can
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by paddoq 8y ago
6. We roll data off our site after 30 days, to combat harming restaurants where the circumstances may have changed. We think this is one reason restaurants should actually prefer people report on our site vs twitter, or yelp, or facebook. O
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by paddoq 8y ago
Agreed, this is why we do not pronounce a single report as a truth. We do not present confidence indicators. We do explain the details of foodborne illness on our site, but we do want to do better on this, we will continue to refine messagi
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by paddoq 8y ago
1. Yes we intend to offer intermediate levels of service, eventually moving all the way down to a self serve option for a single restaurant. 2. We are still working on pricing for the smaller participants. The offering will likely be slight
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by paddoq 8y ago
Exactly. This is one topic where everyone is on the same page, people don't want to get sick, restaurants don't want to make them sick. We are helping restaurants to do better on their most important core objective.
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by paddoq 8y ago
Sorry to hear it, yes there is a lot that can go wrong. Thanks for the support : )
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by paddoq 8y ago
Agreed. The text of the report is only a small part of it. We are looking at a range of other things on the back end. Also a scenario like that is a red flag to us, and it triggers further due diligence. It'will also trigger public hea
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by paddoq 8y ago
We have not and will not accuse anyone of anything. From a legal perspective, nothing new to see here, people have been posting reports of food poisoning on social media for years, Yelp, Twitter, Facebook so on. We are just enabling it in a
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by paddoq 8y ago
Thanks! Scale > Great question. We think we can do it. We have a great offshore team with affordable scaling, also we just implemented our first machine learning module, and plan to build on this to help speed up and improve accuracy. F
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by paddoq 8y ago
We are not attacking them, nor are the public health agencies, so hopefully they do not feel the need to defend. Also given we roll reports off the site after 30 days we believe there is less of a concern from that perspective. We are not a
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by paddoq 8y ago
Also very few goverment agencies release complaint data, and for those few that do, it is not done in a timely actionable accessible way.
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by paddoq 8y ago
We do a pretty deep dive on every report in the moderating process. Someone with malicious intent could get one report past us. Getting multiple reports past us would be do-able but harder. Getting them actioned by public health would be cl
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by paddoq 8y ago
Great point about the hover, and information popups for mobile, thanks for the reminder. We had those in the past, they were not well used, but I still think it's great to have them, especially for the 'Send Report To' - that
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by paddoq 8y ago
Depends on what you mean by weed out. Each report is a signal. A single report on our site is a weak signal but still may result in a) an inspection and identification of critical violations b) discovery of an outbreak c) a false positive.
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by paddoq 8y ago
Yes, Their consumer facing platform does not have the URL , but we do share the name. I have since met the guy who built and runs that program, we are all ok with it, since our Dinesafe is strictly a B2B platform. We actually partner with t
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Launch HN: Dinesafe (YC S18) – Crowdsourcing Food Poisoning Reports
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