Ask HN: Feedback on text-based food delivery concept?

[jmzbond]

Here's how it would work:

1) Receive a text by 5pm each day with the day's 2 menu options (1 veg, 1 non-veg) 2) Text back if you want food (which option & quantity) by 6pm 3) Get it delivered by 7pm (first time you order, card + delivery info recorded)

Thoughts?

[sethwm]

Sounds like Peach: https://www.peachd.com/

Except peach serves lunch instead of dinner. They appear to have the restaurants deliver the food themselves. Your office needs to have 50 people who have signed up for the service before they'll start offering menu items in that location.

[jmzbond → sethwm]

Thanks for sharing that! Yes the key difference here on the backend is that we make the food ourselves. But you're abs. right that from the frontend it's very similar.

[byoung2]

I think for online-to-offline startups you have to look at both sides of the equation (maybe inequality is a better term). The interface is less important than the physical fulfillment of the product or service. Cragislist is a perfect example of this. In your example, I'd be more interested in how the food tastes, and how well delivery works.

[sethwm → byoung2]

I think that's right. Anecdotally as a user of Peach, the four biggest complaints I've had/heard are: 1) late delivery 2) food at wrong temperature when delivered 3) food doesn't taste good 4) people tired of the same menu options repeated too often

[jmzbond → byoung2]

Fair points