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[–] Ace_of_spades 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wow! Something similar for me: in 2007 I built a website that had the same functionality as Hungry House. Basically a place where take-away restaurants could put their menus up and take orders. It didn't take off and it only cost me a couple of month's of work. Then Hungry House, Uber Eats etc came along a decade later and nailed it.

[–] Cras 6 points 2 years ago

To be fair to you, I don't imagine they did anything better than you on the menus and ordering, it's the fact that they provide the delivery that made it work

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I remember thinking about making a website that would let people buy groceries from my site at a markup, then I'd go to the local stores, do the shopping, and deliver it to them. That was probably around ~8 years ago, inspired by my job managing a pizza place. Like "Hey, people are lazy and love getting food delivered to them, why doesn't anyone do groceries, too?"

Though I never built it out because a developer I may be, a businessman I am not.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Don't kick yourself. I knew this guy and despite being an utter c0ck, he was a visionary in this space, since he started a year before Deliveroo yet still got screwed.