Re:Show HN: My weekend project, MealMogul.com
by prawn on Sunday November 20, 2011 @10:39PM
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I don't use Facebook so I couldn't get very far. And I like cooking, but I wouldn't be keen to host absolute strangers in my house - I'm guessing that's the idea?
I wondered if you could have something like this but the host would cook a dish if they got a minimum number of takers and perhaps pick-ups were an option/encouraged/forced. So there'd be a tipping point to make a meal happen. If I already have a broad social group, but I want to make a bit on the side from my cooking, it's barely worth the $x to risk having some nutbag show up. But it might be worth me cooking twice a week for a minimum of 10 people each time, and charging $8. Then they drop in at a certain time to eat or pick up their containers/bags and away they go.
I wondered if you could have something like this but the host would cook a dish if they got a minimum number of takers and perhaps pick-ups were an option/encouraged/forced. So there'd be a tipping point to make a meal happen. If I already have a broad social group, but I want to make a bit on the side from my cooking, it's barely worth the $x to risk having some nutbag show up. But it might be worth me cooking twice a week for a minimum of 10 people each time, and charging $8. Then they drop in at a certain time to eat or pick up their containers/bags and away they go.