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Comment by jspaulding | Hacker News Reader

I'm the founder. If anyone has feedback or questions let me know! thanks

Two questions after looking over your service:

* How do you plan to make money off of this? From your FAQ you appear self funded, and it doesn't look like there are any sort of fees attached.

* Since you're just starting out, there's a good chance that someone could sign up and not have anyone to do lunch with because everyone else is too far away. How will you handle this to further expansion?

Regarding making money - I'm not sure yet. There would be a few options - including either charging members per lunch or charging restaurants. However, I'm planning to wait and see how the service evolves before I start thinking about that too much.

The problem of signing up for lunch and not having anyone to match with is definitely something I'm trying to avoid. A couple ideas (not implemented yet) - warn people that there are very few people signed up in their area. Allow matches with 3 or 4 people (so there is not an odd man out type situation)

Have a look at startupflyer[1] which is a similar idea in hungary. They make money by simply charging the members at the meetups. You choose 5 people based on have/need infos. If someone is choosen he will get notified that he should go.

[1] http://startupflyer.com/en

Thanks for the link. I will indeed have a look over this site. cheers.

Just wanted to point out that gay users of your service might take slight offense at the heteronormative answer you gave in your FAQ:

Is this a dating site? Nope, not really. But you may meet someone of the opposite gender! ( Unless you don't want to. )

Gender is the correct word, actually. It refers both to sex and to sexual identity. Why would they take offence?

It's not the word gender that I'm referring to. It is the implication that in order to date, it would have to be with someone of the opposite sex.

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