changer1
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the app is not live at the moment. i couldnt finish the product.
if they need to update the menu, they can update it easily from a really simple interface. i designed the interface for the demo actually and its pretty easy to use.
Posted by
changer1 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @02:23PM
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So if you check my previous submissions, you can see that i have a marketplace platform idea in my mind that i wanna build. I looked around for a technical co founder but i couldn't find one. So i thought lets try to make a demo with AI and see what happpens. I spent some time with Claude and build an app. To my eyes, it seems like something. You can open the restauran, order food as a...
Posted by
changer1 on Sunday October 27, 2024 @03:44PM
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I tried to use marblism. at first it seemed okay but the app kept crashing and it didnt work. can u guys give some advice? i wanna build a mvp
added. and if there was sufficient explanation there, you still wouldn't help. thanks for the first part.
wdym by ship it? outsource?
Posted by
changer1 on Sunday October 13, 2024 @07:53AM
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as you can see from my earlier topics, i have a food delivery app in my mind. i have been talking with people and i feel the idea got better. the tech people i talked with said me this sounds okay and feasible but i don't know anything about p2p systems. and i have been talking with a lot of tech people and i can't find a p2p guy. so im in a dead end. what should i do? should i apply to next yc...
you are right but i just wanna start doing real stuff. build it. if it won't fit in the market so be it i don't care. i just wanna do something.
1. he is just someone graduated from my school not someone i know personally my idea is just adding him at linkedin
2. i want restaurants to keep their menus and kinda "host" their menus themselves. and i won't be providing any customer service or something like that. because of that, i want corporate restaurants have tech infrastructure.
3. my only concern is about the product
none. my go to market strategy is to talk with restaurant chains and tell them i'll cut down their costs and basically fight for their earnings. and i have someone in mind that i can probably reach out to has a restaurant chain spreads over 200 restaurants. the problem is i don't wanna go to talk to him just with the idea. and because my app would require some kind of technical infrastructure i don't wanna start talking with local restaurants. i feel like i can convince the big boys and the locals would follow them.
people i talked to told me not to outsource tech side. they told me if i outsource tech and make them build a demo, still it won't be attractive for a investor because i don't have the team the debug or improve the app inhouse. what would you say to that? for me i feel like i can give 1k usd and get a demo and progress through it.
i just wanna know how to build stuff and understand the skillset needed
thanks for the advice. i wanna build an online food delivery marketplace and my aim is not huge profitability actually. i just wanna build something that is useful and agile. and i don't think i'll spend much money until it gets to the breakeven point. so i feel like i should give it a try.
Posted by
changer1 on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @06:29PM
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I wanna build this marketplace which I made a submission earlier and talked about it and now i wanna understand if it's technologically feasible and the skillset needed to build it. How can I do it?
codeacademy might be useful
Posted by
changer1 on Monday July 08, 2024 @08:12PM
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So, I had a previous discussion about the idea i have. It was really helpful but i need to finalize my idea. Communication in the forum is intermittent and not healthy. I need someone I can talk to one on one and clarify things.
i feel like i can make connections to make it grow really fast. and i know that sounds cocky but i think im pretty smart and i contribute a vision here. and probably im really underestimating the skillset to code the platform but i really wanna understand the structure behind and effort and knowledge needed but it still seems like a not huge job. what do you say?
i wasn't able to think that simpler. the idea is exactly this. but how can i build it? i want to remove the third party delivery apps. im going to connect customers directly to restaurants. your recommendation sounds similar to early doordash. my concern here is about the customer type. back in those days people could ameteur looking products but i feel like its impossible. instead of giving their phone number, i wanna create a simple system that similar to other food delivery apps.it is going to take your personal information - phone number, name, adress- and your order, deliver it to the restaurant as a message and display the order to the restaurant as a panel. is that sounds ok?
i totally understand your advise. i want to build a food delivery app. the most simple way i can imagine is this: user signup and login might not be neccessary because people won't need it. i just need restaurants to list their menu and people to transmit their order to restaurant. probably i am going to need some kind of authentication. but at first im going to be operating with only cash.
yeah im thinking something like that actually but little different. im going to charge the restaurants monthly as a subscription model. the delivery apps i know charge by the percentage. so the difference between me and them is going to be this. while other delivery apps charge %10 of the order, i am going to charge 100$ monthly. fixed expense means 0 in long term. with that i am going to be able to cut down the prices. the plan is this. Is this still hard to develop? Btw my goal is not going to be only cash. i want to keep the MVP version as simple as possible. I have plans for payment methods too.
i live in turkey and the restaurants here operate with their own delivery people. for the MVP version, it will be operating with only cash option. i have a growth plan in my head. i think i don't need a really functioning platform, revenue or customers to start the plan. all i need a draft-MVP kind of stuff. Is this going to be that expensive?
when i checked the market i couldn't find something similar to my idea. for the second part, the idea i have looks simple to me. its MVP version doesn't have a database and payment system. simple css -i don't want to underestimate but i feel like the level of css i need can be provided by chatgpt - , and a pretty simple user interface. the main structure behind is going to act like a messaging app. and i think the technical know how from the internet would make it easier too. what would you say for that type of project?
food delivery app. i need people to create accounts, login, restaurants to do the same thing and linking them thru my system.
i totally agree in the audiance part. im in one of the top universities in my country and i believe i could use the community of the uni to get to a thousand users after i deploy. the thing is: i feel like the idea in my mind is not that complex -at least the MVP version - and if i give someone 50 percent its going to make me ripped of. i need someone to draw the frame in my head in order to understand the scale of the thing i wanna build.
i know it sounds like that i wanna the easy way out but i feel like that thats the only way. and you described my problem perfectly. i don't know the scale of this process and the skillset that i need to have. how can I create the frame in my mind?
All the people I talked with told me not to outsource the business from the beginning. And i don't have the resources to found a company and hire people. Actually im new here so i couldn't explain myself well. The thing is my mind is can learn JavaScript just enough to develop a MVP in one month?
Posted by
changer1 on Saturday June 29, 2024 @06:33PM
from the self-post dept.
The question is this: I wanna develop a marketplace platform but i don't have technical background. I think I am pretty smart but not sure that smart enough to learn the process quickly and develop the platform myself. At the same time, I feel like it doesn't need that much know how to develop a MVP. If I find a technical co-founder to develop the platform and lose half of the company i am...