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brfox | 5 years ago

It seems like this area is ripe for a non-profit, open source platform to help out. What options are out there along these lines?

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paxys|5 years ago

The problem isn't technology but logistics. How are you going to find a large pool of drivers ready to take food instantly from point A to B in the city at little/no cost?

brfox|5 years ago

Woops, I guess I was thinking more about ordering online and picking up the food myself. I usually just call the restaurants to place my take out order, but tend to prefer places where I can order on their own app or website, pull up and re-order the last thing I got, and then hit submit. Like someone else mentioned, there is a lot of friction with calling and placing an order, explaining the modifications, paying in the store, etc, etc.

I thought this was such a fabulous idea, I bought a domain name for it: https://inmytown.org/ As usual, I just haven't done all the other hard work. But, in the old days last year, I thought it would be cool for local shops to have an online presence so that online shoppers could see where to buy stuff and place orders and then pick it up. So, have an e-commerce platform for shops, restaurants, delivery would be great. Try and keep money local instead of shaving 10-20% off of all transactions and sending them to big tech. Does anyone want to help me build this? Totally committed to non-profit and great apps for local companies.

javajosh|5 years ago

I mean, if I'm going to pick up food anyway I'd be happy to pick up someone elses food and drop it off if it was on the way. Presumably someone might do the same for me.

KCUOJJQJ|5 years ago

It wouldn't help now but could restaurants make their own platform that every restaurant can join or leave? Not sure what the legal form would be.

Also, maybe they could found a bank too that has a payment system. I'm not sure if this is realistic but I really don't like middlemen.

zamfi|5 years ago

For this to be true, you’d want the 3rd party delivery apps to be wildly profitable. Are they?

pbourke|5 years ago

Under the proposed model, wouldn’t you just need the platform to break even? It’s a common tool for all restaurants or all area restaurants.