vaibhavverma9

Love this

Demo! https://www.loom.com/share/7b1afbf008d44f86975f64276a127429

The average American goes to over 200 restaurants a year. Tracking each restaurant manually on Google Maps or the Notes app -- impossible.

Truffle helps foodies track every restaurant they visit.

If you integrate your Instagram, Truffle automatically tracks every restaurant you post on your IG story.

Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/7b1afbf008d44f86975f64276a127429

Really cool. Wish I had this when I was in college. Makes sense to learn before hiring, rather than the other way around.

We currently deep link into other apps. You find a highly reviewed dish and then choose your preferred delivery platform (i.e. GrubHub).

We plan to build out full delivery services eventually, but we would use DoorDash to take care of the backend and logistics, so we would not be the ones actually delivering (that would be DoorDash).

Group orders is tough, and we haven't figured out how to crack that just yet :(

Love all your points. We have photos of most of the highest rated dishes, especially for delivery!

We also have a walking feature that allows you to see the highest ranked dishes around you. You can also go into a restaurant and see the best dishes at those restaurants.

We're not there with value just yet :(

We definitely want to focus on blowing up NYC. Is there a neighborhood or a couple of restaurants you would like us to add into the database?

Appreciate the feedback, thanks!

Totally understand. What market are you from? Unfortunately, we are only in SF, NY and Chicago so far.

By the way, you can review a dish from any arbitrary restaurant. You can search your restaurant and press the "Review a Dish" button. When we get enough of those in any city, we consider launching there next :)

This is so helpful. Thanks for the color. We built the app using Ionic, a framework that houses a web application as an iPhone or Android app. We are considering switching to true native soon :)

Totally understand your primary use case. You can search for any restaurant and find the best dishes there!

What do you mean by Yelp effect?

That's exactly right! We just do reviews for individual dishes and cut the noise that comes with bad service or dirty toilets :)

That's exactly right. Most delivery platforms have affiliate revenue, where we get a small percentage of the overall transaction (and courier fee). We don't plan on taking a significant cut early on but may be able to renegotiate with greater traction. We see delivery platforms in a turf war, basically commoditizing themselves and competing on logistics. We think there is room for an aggregator here.

We are currently working with a few delivery platforms to get affiliate fee. Just to give you some numbers, delivery platforms typically get ~20% of the order value and ~15% of the courier fees. At the beginning, we expect to only get a tiny percentage of their net revenue, but we anticipate us getting more negotiating power over time. Totally agree with your point that users might not like it if we a series of dishes or restaurants disappear.