Comment by nogahelena | Hacker News Reader

Comment by nogahelena | Hacker News Reader

Hey all, wanted to tell you about Plater (https://platerapp.app.link/ZJQoea4Ew7), a browser plugin i'm building. We're currently journeying for our first 1000 users.

Plater (https://plater.com) is a browser plugin that saves you money on restaurant delivery and helps local restaurants.

Plater finds you the cheapest price by automatically compare pricing across different delivery apps. On average, we find users savings of 20% per order. Our search is integrated with * Postmates * Grubhub * Seamless * Uber Eats * DoorDash * Caviar

Additionally, Plater helps local restaurants by linking to their direct ordering websites. Direct orders can make a big impact on our local restaurants by reducing their fees from 30% --> 0%! We're already linking to ~400 local restaurants in NYC and Fort Worth, Texas.

We're in public beta in NYC, Seattle, Houston, Dallas, Austin and Fort Worth, with over 60k restaurants for price comparisons. We're looking for feedback so if you're in one of these cities we'd love for you to download (https://platerapp.app.link/ZJQoea4Ew7) and share feedback. If you're in a different city and want to use Plater, lmk and I will get it up and running in a few hours.

Thanks!

Are you able to share anything about your revenue model? From other comments I've seen on HN and elsewhere, people in the niches I frequent (myself included) are increasingly interested in actually helping local restaurants by ordering directly and ignoring 3rd parties who are attempting to set up toll gates between us. What makes you different from the six services you mentioned?

We won't become like the services mentioned above because we have no intent of fulfilling deliveries. I think there may be an opportunity in building software for local restaurants that would make ordering as convenient as it is (for the consumer) with the DoorDashes of the world. However, people willing to change their ordering habits for better prices and to help local restaurants is still a hypothesis that needs to be proven...

Can you share some of the niches you frequent? I'm really looking to connect with people who are passionate about this problem.

Thank you!

Not sure about that last part, but I will say that I do think sincere efforts to empower small businesses by offering them truly better software with fairly priced SLAs is the right way to go here. If that's what you're doing, I hope you go far. I may have to take a closer look later.

I know it's early so you're building for the largest initial audience, but a Firefox extension would be great. I would be even more happy if there was just a website I could use.

working on it :)

I’m in Chicago and would love that service!

awesome, i'll start setting up Chicago now :) if you download and create an account I can send you a message when it's ready.

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