Thursday, June 25, 2009

What's for lunch

That's a reccuring question, every day I forget to "brown bag it". I wish there was a simple way I could be suggested what is the current soup du jour by local eateries. I don't want to perform an extensive (re)search, just recieve short notification that "Wednesday Wings are 20c each @ Lawrence Wings". I wish to receive such notification only on Wednesdays, and only if I'm in the vicinity of Lawrence Wings. Just that and not much else. Sounds both simple enough and exciting to do. Bit of RoR for the web front end, android extension for mobile , Twitter API for the broadcast ... . Why don't I do it?

There are many applications centered on food industry - Urban Spoon, Open Table, Yelp, Menu Palace ... and it's still a hedeache to order pizza online in Toronto (except from PizzaHut, if you are into it). Lot of great apps, but I feel that each is trying to do too many things at once, forgetting to satisfy the ONE need, first and foremost. My need is to find What's for lunch. Period.

I find myself to have lower threshold for the amount of information I'm willing to digest, than I used to have. I want to find what I'm looking for, not much more. I don't browse around much anymore, I search and I'm gone. The one way to make me stick around (and eventually monetize on me) is to give me what I'm looking for first, than weave a web of distraction around it.

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