Comment by alaskamiller | Hacker News Reader

Comment by alaskamiller | Hacker News Reader

Two perspectives: I worked and coded out on alternative POS solutions right when iPad POS solutions became popular. But it's a dead end. It's too complex and resource intensive for an indie shop, it's not worth it.

For example, you may or may not have finally got this done, got it shipped, all those things are great. But your workflow and marketing are meant for tables. This is now dead on arrival.

Second perspective as a restauranteur: $219/mo is crazy expensive. I pay $300/mo to Revel and $180/mo to Clover for two different types of businesses.

With the $300/mo to Revel they process thousands a day and I have 24/7 phone support that within 2 min a live human handles my problems.

With the $180/mo to Clover they process hundreds a day and I have an easy to use, to easy to service system that I can hack into and custom build Android apps to do whatever I want.

Your $219/mo don't come close to delivering value like that.

Sorry.

Thank you for your insights and suggestions.

I explain the thoughts behind the price a little in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22625906

EDIT:

> From my survey I know that organizers pay more than $ 200 for a order management system (e. g. about $ 300 for the system and more per device needed).

I would like to add that this is the price for two days of rent.

Bay area rent, maybe. Most of the world pays around $80 for 2 days of rent.

Have also worked on POS programs and I have to agree with this sentiment:

> It's too complex and resource intensive for an indie shop, it's not worth it.

If you're not an existing system, the client interfacing and employee training has to be factored into the costs on both ends. If your demo can't cover the client's needs to a tee, that's either an immediate deal-breaker or you have to build more features just to get considered. Then you have to market your product, do customer service, and do sales.

If you take that all into account, your product is not worth it for you nor the client.

You keep saying "it's a dead end", what is your point here? Why is it "dead on arrival", why would it be bad to market for tables. Seriously your comment is an incoherent mess.

Presumably given the current situation with Coronavirus?

Haha, that would be really short sighted and I can't imagine the author thinking restaurants will never open again.

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