Review our public website?
Web and SaaS
point of sale software
SHOW HN2010
Review our public website?
Before I tell you what we're trying to do, please take a look and see if you can figure it out for yourself…
news.ycombinator.com#mobile point of sale#electronic menu#restaurant pos#ipad pos
How HN took it
0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.33.
Docs: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Website concept is good and the market is interesting
From 2 comments
Great! I've been looking forward to someone doing exactly this. As for your website: 1. Lose the top bar. You have to know your market; every single restaurant I work with is run…
thaumaturgy on HNI'm not adverse to creative spellings, but it just looked like a typo as opposed to being intentional (which I realized after seeing it in a few places). Just my gut reaction.…
secret on HN
Objections
No pricing shown on the site
From 2 comments
Great! I've been looking forward to someone doing exactly this. As for your website: 1. Lose the top bar. You have to know your market; every single restaurant I work with is run…
thaumaturgy on HN- The first question I would have is about pricing. What's the point of a free trial (for you and your users) if they won't pay afterward? - I would change the generic iPad home…
secret on HN
Unclear what the product is from the homepage
From 2 comments
Before I get to see the demo, I must look at two other screens. The first has two photographs, one of an iPad running nothing in particular, and another of some people futzing…
weel on HNI'm not sure. But your website does not really tell me what exactly the product does. A video tour (or a working flash example) would show me in more concrete terms what it…
SHOwnsYou on HN
Web-only app may not print orders to kitchen printers
From 1 comment
Absolutely, please do contact me. Email's in my user profile. I'd love nothing more than to get a few of my clients off of their horrible POS. Being solely web-based might be an…
thaumaturgy on HN
iPads may not survive grease and drops
From 1 comment
Great! I've been looking forward to someone doing exactly this. As for your website: 1. Lose the top bar. You have to know your market; every single restaurant I work with is run…
thaumaturgy on HN
Demo gated behind a countdown timer
From 1 comment
Before I get to see the demo, I must look at two other screens. The first has two photographs, one of an iPad running nothing in particular, and another of some people futzing…
weel on HN
Requests
Add pricing
From 2 comments
Great! I've been looking forward to someone doing exactly this. As for your website: 1. Lose the top bar. You have to know your market; every single restaurant I work with is run…
thaumaturgy on HN- The first question I would have is about pricing. What's the point of a free trial (for you and your users) if they won't pay afterward? - I would change the generic iPad home…
secret on HN
Add a video or product tour
From 2 comments
Create a video tour. Add a contact form at Contact Us instead of a mailto link. On the homepage, in the right column next to the MnuBox explanation, I would include a contact us…
SHOwnsYou on HNI'm not sure. But your website does not really tell me what exactly the product does. A video tour (or a working flash example) would show me in more concrete terms what it…
SHOwnsYou on HN
Support existing POS data import
From 1 comment
Great! I've been looking forward to someone doing exactly this. As for your website: 1. Lose the top bar. You have to know your market; every single restaurant I work with is run…
thaumaturgy on HN
Add a contact form instead of mailto link
From 1 comment
Create a video tour. Add a contact form at Contact Us instead of a mailto link. On the homepage, in the right column next to the MnuBox explanation, I would include a contact us…
SHOwnsYou on HN
Questions
Does the intentional spelling of the name look like a typo
From 1 comment
Thanks for taking a look! Can you elaborate on the name issue you had? Does the intentional typo turn you off? Product tour sounds like a cool thing to have -- I'm talking with…
bradhe on HN