cake.af

Text 🍰 to 413-GET-CAKE for free rides to great places

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Text 🍰 to 413-GET-CAKE for free rides to great places

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Launch tags:Ridesharing•Health & Fitness•Emoji

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Weloop

How do you plan on stopping users from getting to the restaurant and just not going in..only taking advantage of the ride?

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10yr ago

Panda

Maker

@allany888 Good Point Allan. Since we choose the restaurant it would be a little inconvenient to chance it upon us to give you a ride to where you want to go. Though if this behavior is exhibited on the platform we'll look into it, and deal with the issue.

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10yr ago

Product Hunt

Hunter

Clever concept, giving people free Uber rides to fill brick-and-mortar demand (in this case, restaurants). This has some overlap with Teleport Dashboard, a tool for businesses to send and Uber to a large number of people. Added to my Invisible Apps collection.

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10yr ago

Sensay

@rrhoover is there a list of bots that respond to emojis as intent? Super nifty idea!

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10yr ago

Cicada.build

@arieljalali @rrhoover Foodmoji (https://twitter.com/MattSchrage/...)

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10yr ago

Cymbal Universal Translator for Chrome

Congrats on the launch -- I love the concept and I'm excited to give it a shot! Is it live anywhere or only in LA? I've got two hardball questions for ya: 1) I'm sure you know the restaurant industry better than I do, but don't the top restaurants usually have no trouble filling their seats? If so, won't that mean that any restaurant that you sign up for this service will be lower-tier, by definition? A free ride is cool, but not if it ends up at a bad restaurant. 2) How do you see this market changing with self-driving cars / big name competitors like Google? (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2...)

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10yr ago

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Maker

@nadomars Thanks, Mario! We've currently only tested in LA & SF but are moving to other markets like NY ASAP! Oh good! I love hardball. 1. The trend we try to capitalize here is it is difficult for most restaurants including the top restaurants to fill their seats earlier in the week, the idea was that if we make it enticing and easy to go out to dinner we'll be able to bring you to good food. 2. I see the whole world changing under self-driving cars and am certain we'd have to rethink things and improve when that comes along. It's coming soon, but not here yet.

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10yr ago

Battle App

Such a smart idea and well executed, Daniel! On a side note, I am wondering, what restaurants should I expect? American or Mexican, or Chinese? Go,🍰!

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10yr ago

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Maker

@paulwong90 Thanks Paul! Means a lot to me. We're doing a variety, no specific criteria other than the food is really damn good and whatever form that takes we'll do it.

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10yr ago

Great idea. I was wondering is it open to exploitation? Could people just abuse the Free rides and not enter the restaurant?

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10yr ago

Panda

Maker

@webbuzzau Thank you! We think this is unlikely as since we choose the restaurant it would be fairly inconvenient to rely on us for a random ride to some part of your city.

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10yr ago

Panda

Maker

NOTICE: Until further updates we will be operating under 574-742-4191. Our old number will be back soon. Thank you for hunting cake, Ryan! We're super excited to share cake with Product Hunt and bring great dining experiences to everyone. We're currently starting in LA & SF and will be growing to new markets where we see significant interest but where we can also ensure you eat at only the best restaurants. I look forward to hearing everyone's feedback and answering your questions. And this time, the cake is not a lie. Learn more about how we built cake.af on medium. https://a-musing.co/why-i-bought...

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10yr ago

@danielsing3r Very cool. But does Cake.AF also take me home when I'm done eating?

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10yr ago

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Maker

@benburns Thank you! Currently not, but its something we're looking into. We haven't been able nail down the UX of getting the uber at the right time when you leave the restaurant and other issues we're working on.

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10yr ago

Panda

Maker

Update! We just hit the limit for sms on Google Voice. Transferring over to Twilio as we speak. 413-GET-CAKE will be back soon. Use 5747424191 as a backup meanwhile

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10yr ago

Unroll.Me

Love the story of why you picked the name cake.af, @danielsing3r (hint: 🍰). You can't launch a product today without claiming your own emoji!

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10yr ago

Panda

Maker

Thanks! @jackdweck I've always been stumped when it comes to coming up with names for new projects. I figured if I'm going to go bold I might as well just think of something rash and go with it. I couldn't quite think of anything rash except so I just looked at my keyboard and I guess it became clear to me. We need an emoji.

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10yr ago

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