its not reliable, but boy is it fun! gone are the days when you should be forced to define your identify by something you do not enjoy. we can all be entrepreneurs and live out our ambitions. its not easy, but its worth it.
Thanks for the comments, it is true that we have a fairly large amount of competition the biggest of who are Just-eat. We do firmly believe that there is room for more than one or even two major players when you consider the size of the home delivery market in the UK.
We have proved from cities that we are already well established in that we can compete very well with Just-Eat & in some cases exceeding their sales volumes. I have to admit that regards to competitive advantages neither site outshines the other but you don't have to be the market leader to turn a profit.
Thanks for the feedback re pics of food John, it was just something that we steered away from with the initial design of the site because it's easy to go very wrong with pictures of food! We're looking at redesigning a version 2 of the site & some pics of delicious pizza to wet the appetite may help increase conversions further!
That certainly makes sense, and Joel also argued that rewriting their browser was what did them in, but I can't help but wonder if that is really the case. Consumers are notoriously fickle about paying for stuff and I am guessing that most of Zohos customers are small businesses which don't have that problem (it is the same reason 37 signals primarily sell towards business) so I think they would have selected IE even if Netscape hadn't been completely foolish.
The site's pretty shiny and all, but I don't really see where it's got any advantage over Just-Eat, which has a fairly large amount of traction now. Perhaps targeting geographical areas Just-Eat doesn't cover? Don't really see anything killer like an iPhone app or similar that would give it any edge over an existing, strong competitor.
Jamie Zawinski said something similar about Netscape. The classic story is that Netscape was going fine until Microsoft released IE for free and killed their market. According to jwz, what really killed Netscape was when their acquisition of another company. The new employees gained from the acquisition ended up in charge of the entire product division, declared that they were going to rewrite the browser from scratch, and Netscape entered an irreversible tailspin.
That sounds interesting, but I'm not sure I'm convinced. It seems similar to the Goolge Chrome way which I find really useful - type "wi", press tab and then type your search.
Used this service a couple nights ago, our usual take-away was closed & google search came up with e-resistible. Works very well, easy to find a good local take-away, selecting from the menu was nice and straight forward (though photo's of the food would have been nice), payment is secure and delivery prompt.
I'll be using them again.
On a business perspective, it's a very well formed proposition and ideally suited to the web. I don't know how much of the market they've secured but with first mover advantage and an aggressive programme for signing up new restaurants should see them succeed. I can't image their cash-burn is excessive & its highly scalable.
can i admit of hotel manage
We are working on it :)
Thank you very much Isaac, I think the idea behind UK Uni Startups is great!
I think this is very useful in the current uk climate where students are struggling to find useful employment!
I noticed the site had an RSS feed for jobs. I subscribed so any jobs should appear here as well.
Looks cool, I know a few friends I can pass the link on to
Looks interesting. Any cool features apart from being an online catelogue?
no
Sounds like a fun concept, have you an idea in mind?
its not reliable, but boy is it fun! gone are the days when you should be forced to define your identify by something you do not enjoy. we can all be entrepreneurs and live out our ambitions. its not easy, but its worth it.
Star chamber anyone?
I am beginning to wonder if Berlin might be a more free place.
Need to go and work on my german.
Hi guys,
Thanks for the comments, it is true that we have a fairly large amount of competition the biggest of who are Just-eat. We do firmly believe that there is room for more than one or even two major players when you consider the size of the home delivery market in the UK.
We have proved from cities that we are already well established in that we can compete very well with Just-Eat & in some cases exceeding their sales volumes. I have to admit that regards to competitive advantages neither site outshines the other but you don't have to be the market leader to turn a profit.
Thanks for the feedback re pics of food John, it was just something that we steered away from with the initial design of the site because it's easy to go very wrong with pictures of food! We're looking at redesigning a version 2 of the site & some pics of delicious pizza to wet the appetite may help increase conversions further!
That certainly makes sense, and Joel also argued that rewriting their browser was what did them in, but I can't help but wonder if that is really the case. Consumers are notoriously fickle about paying for stuff and I am guessing that most of Zohos customers are small businesses which don't have that problem (it is the same reason 37 signals primarily sell towards business) so I think they would have selected IE even if Netscape hadn't been completely foolish.
The site's pretty shiny and all, but I don't really see where it's got any advantage over Just-Eat, which has a fairly large amount of traction now. Perhaps targeting geographical areas Just-Eat doesn't cover? Don't really see anything killer like an iPhone app or similar that would give it any edge over an existing, strong competitor.
Jamie Zawinski said something similar about Netscape. The classic story is that Netscape was going fine until Microsoft released IE for free and killed their market. According to jwz, what really killed Netscape was when their acquisition of another company. The new employees gained from the acquisition ended up in charge of the entire product division, declared that they were going to rewrite the browser from scratch, and Netscape entered an irreversible tailspin.
"Unit Testing is usually worth the effort, but the amount of effort required isn't going to be the same for everybody."
That sounds interesting, but I'm not sure I'm convinced. It seems similar to the Goolge Chrome way which I find really useful - type "wi", press tab and then type your search.
I'm definitely interested. Count me in and keep me updated - I'll do the same if I come across any I fancy :)
Used this service a couple nights ago, our usual take-away was closed & google search came up with e-resistible. Works very well, easy to find a good local take-away, selecting from the menu was nice and straight forward (though photo's of the food would have been nice), payment is secure and delivery prompt.
I'll be using them again.
On a business perspective, it's a very well formed proposition and ideally suited to the web. I don't know how much of the market they've secured but with first mover advantage and an aggressive programme for signing up new restaurants should see them succeed. I can't image their cash-burn is excessive & its highly scalable.
"Some people, when faced with a problem, try solving it with regular expressions. Now they have two problems." - jwz
Yes, you are ;)
Am I the only one who have no problem making regular expressions?
I discovered Eric Ries quite a few months ago now, and his articles have changed my life. This article in particular is a must read, in my opinion.
Definitely not. You should come up with something original.
Reminds me of http://hiim.r09.railsrumble.com/
s/really while/really well. Oops.