My first (quite pointless) Ruby website

Re:My first (quite pointless) Ruby website by aspir on Sunday October 24, 2010 @05:31PM (#1827361)

I think it's pretty cool actually. If you expanded this to different restaurants, you may have something on your hands. I can't tell you how many times I've gone through this scenario when ordering. Not at McDonalds, granted, but at the places I do frequent.

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Re:My first (quite pointless) Ruby website by pluies on Sunday October 24, 2010 @06:24PM (#1827513)

Yes, it might be useful providing a real dataset... The problem would be finding the menus and making sure prices are correct, etc. That would need to be crowdsourced, and I'm not sure that many people would be willing to participate. :)

Thanks for the feedback!

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Re:My first (quite pointless) Ruby website by adatta02 on Sunday October 24, 2010 @06:53PM (#1827592)

Could probably get it done on Mechanical Turk for a few hundred bucks. I'd start in a single metro area and expand from there.

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Re:My first (quite pointless) Ruby website by frankdenbow on Sunday October 24, 2010 @07:14PM (#1827646)

Agreed. You could form it into an app where you input how much cash you have on you and you find local restaurant items (or any other kind of product actually) that you could afford.

Props on the project!

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