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Re:California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaura... by mrweasel on Friday January 01, 2021 @10:19AM (#25603806)
How would is that ever going to work long term? Most pizza places I frequent offer free delivery, or very cheap delivery once you get pizza for two people. The “growth hack” will never work when you compete with your supplier.

Even if this was somehow going to work, once Doordash has pushed others out of the market, then they would need to raise the price significantly, pushing many to just do pickup themselfs.

More suprising, to me, is that it was ever legal to list resturants without and opt in.

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Re:California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaura... by ljm on Saturday January 02, 2021 @04:33AM (#25611499)
Growth hacks are never about sustainably growing a business, they're just there to fatten it up before parading it in front of the VCs.

Of course by growth hacking, we're talking about the act of using unethical practices against users to boost certain metrics.

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