"SpoonRocket for pizza" -- Can we deliver a pizza in 10-15 min instead of 1-2 hours? [By operating a vehicle that cooks them in the truck and circles the block, college district, etc.]

I won a hackathon with this concept and began to pursue it as a startup a year ago. The market is big, and people love comfort foods. Also, today's food delivery startups mostly focus on healthy options.

We did customer validation in Cincinnati, OH, and people seemed very interested, but we don't have the population density spots to run it here. I also don't think it'd work in New York (too many fast $1 pizza joints), or Chicago (people mostly want high quality and are willing to wait). We think it has a lot of potential in the bay, where SpoonRocket, Caviar, Sprig, etc. have paved the way.

Side note: Domino's unveiled their own cars of a similar concept in October. http://fortune.com/2015/10/22/dominos-pizza-car/

Wait, why do you think that "The market is big"? When you did customer validation it failed because the city wasn't big enough. And when you looked at bigger cities you found have better options than this idea. That sounds like the market is actually not that big.

Even the premise seems a bit fuzzy: Can we deliver a pizza in 10-15 min instead of 1-2 hours? Is the problem that it takes to long to deliver or that the delivery is so varied? Maybe people cared much more about the time it is delivered than the speed? If I am told the pizza will be here at 8pm and it arrives at 8:20 I am annoyed, but if I was told it would be here at 8:20 I might be perfectly happy. The question to determine is are they losing sales because of speed or because of the accuracy of the last time they had a delivery?

But above the question based upon your existing research why not open a joint in the bay that sells high quality pizza delivered and $1 pizza if you walk in as that is clearly what the market is validating?

Admittedly, I've glossed over the market aspects for this thread.

To gauge the size, we used a standard report from the pizza industry that a seed stage VC friend helped me find, which gave us:

- $36.7B U.S. pizza sales in 2012

- 75-77% of 18-44 year olds are pizza customers

- 410 million pizzas picked up or delivered per year

In Cincinnati, we think it's not the size of the city, but that the population is distributed in pockets that are too far apart from each other (i.e., to be simultaneously served by one pizza truck quickly).

Our consumer validation showed that what most people value in delivery is: speed (~50%), cost (~30%), and quality (~20%).

We would like to work on food tech in the future, and mostly likely in the bay, but the three of us weren't ready to leave Cincinnati yet :).

Isn't 10-15 min close to the average already? I live 12+ miles from the only pizza place that will deliver out here and it rarely takes more than 30 minutes to get here. I don't remember how long it took in the 'burbs, but it wasn't any longer than that.

In that case, you're lucky. It varies a lot.

While there's no extensive data source with that info for every city, we called each pizza place around downtown Cincinnati in the evenings while we worked. We were quoted 30-90 minutes with an average wait of 43-49 minutes and a median wait of 45 minutes. Some of these were even ≤ 10-minute walk from our coworking space. One interesting observation is that chains often beat indie place quoted times by 5 minutes.

We also collected more anecdotal non-pizza data from my personal experience in the bay in 2014: I was so excited to try Caviar for the first time... and every restaurant I attempted gave a wait of 60-120 minutes or more until eventually I gave up and just walked to food.

Funny enough, this concept was on the Comedy Central show "Nathan For You" -- pizza delivery guaranteed in 7 minutes or you get a free pizza. The delivery was always late.

(The free pizza was a 1" mini pizza and the rest of the order was still full price)

At one time Domino's offered a similar guarantee: "30 minutes or it's free", but canceled it due to increased driver accidents.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-12-22/news/931222003...

Write APIs for app store management and publishing so you can monitor and test performance of different assets and text, schedule different assets/text/prices, upload builds straight from dropbox, revert to previous builds easily, manage reviews etc, all within a nicer dashboard than app/game stores seem capable of producing.

Do Apple/Google have a built-in way to A/B test images and text today?

Only Google does to my knowledge, they added it quite recently:

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

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Like a book of those people's faces? I like it.

1) Deliver espresso shots for $1 in <20 minutes by strapping a small espresso machine to your bike and having people order through text message. I made a website just for kicks, but never actually going to do anything. oneshots.squarespace.com

2) Uber for fixing people's computers/laptops. Plenty of us are good with computers and could easily fix most problems, while 90% of people can't.

> Deliver espresso shots for $1 in <20 minutes by strapping a small espresso machine to your bike and having people order through text message.

Gennardo? Or is this someone else with the same idea?

I thought Gennardo was a company doing it and tried to google it. Realizing now you actually know someone with the same idea haha. But no, I'm not gennardo!

Number 2 would actually be pretty simple.

Take a photo of a road sign, document, newspaper and it translates to a language of your choice, on the photo. Like Google Translate on steriods.

Any different than https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs?

TextFind: Take a photo of some blob of text and its sole feature would be to give you a real life search. OCR behind the scene + grep with a nice little app GUI. 6 months later sell out to Apple || Google || Samsung for a decent amount and have it integrated into the base camera app.

Check out: Word Lens

It translates in real time using your device's camera (at least on Android).

Crowd translating the web is another interesting project.

I'd like to see x2go upgraded with a mosh-like connection. I haven't looked too far into it but if QUIC isn't tied to http and can just function as a byte stream it could work.

Codecademy/Duolingo for Music.

Snapchat on Windows Phone (lol)

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