Re:Ask HN: I use my own product, but others don't. Why?
by lsiunsuex on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @07:42AM
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Doesn't work in the USA
Clicked a few of the items you have listed on the left. I like the design.
We're always trying to find new restaurants and try new places so I would use something like this - but as an iPhone app - not really a website.
I dabbled in restaurant apps a few years ago and came to some conclusions:
More often then not, people make restaurant reservations or look for a restaurant to go to while at work - sometimes, people don't want to use work computers to do this (+ firewalls) so from their phone is best.
More often then not - picking a restaurant is pretty spur of the moment - "hey want to go out to dinner? sure - where? I don't know - let me look something up quickly" - and what is the device most of us have on hand? Our phone.
(completely based on personal research)
So - make an app, and possibly try another demographic.
Clicked a few of the items you have listed on the left. I like the design.
We're always trying to find new restaurants and try new places so I would use something like this - but as an iPhone app - not really a website.
I dabbled in restaurant apps a few years ago and came to some conclusions:
More often then not, people make restaurant reservations or look for a restaurant to go to while at work - sometimes, people don't want to use work computers to do this (+ firewalls) so from their phone is best.
More often then not - picking a restaurant is pretty spur of the moment - "hey want to go out to dinner? sure - where? I don't know - let me look something up quickly" - and what is the device most of us have on hand? Our phone.
(completely based on personal research)
So - make an app, and possibly try another demographic.