One of the stranger aspects of being a YC partner is having to be a guinea pig for new things. This is not always a good experience, but it was with Doordash.
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Jessica and I had small children at the time, and Doordash let us combine two things we'd previously assumed were incompatible: eating food from restaurants, and being at home with our kids.
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Previously the only way to combine kids and restaurants was to take the kids with you to the restaurant. And as anyone with small children knows, this is not an unmixed good.
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Parents have fond memories of handing me off to the staff while they enjoyed the meal.
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Delivery services arent a new concept
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Right? It's funny to me that Paul, who is supposed to be at the cutting edge of innovation, is like "wow, I can order food from a restaurant to my house".
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But is it just a food delivery app? We had those for ages now. And I live in Eastern Europe!
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I remember delivering to your house and worrying that you'd think it was just us. I swear we had other drivers!
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I think the only advantage is the centralization of all the restaurants in a single app, because food delivery from a single one is not a totally news...
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I remember the food would arrive, and I would consciously think “ok, I have three minutes to eat, five if I’m lucky.”
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Oddly enough, my parents shocked many of their friends by bringing my sister & me along with them when they went out to dinner at nice restaurants. We learned from a young age how to behave in public, & never caused the chaos so many people fear. In our case, inclusion worked.
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Restaurants are getting killed by the fees associated with 3rd party delivery apps. Have we actually achieved an unmixed good here?
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Lol what? You can go pick up or have delivery since restaurants were invented.
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Wow, considering that Doordash did nothing new, it's amazing they managed to get any users.
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