jspaulding

Well theoretically it should work in Burlingame.. but realistically you'll probably have to wait till more people hear about this.

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

The reason that its bay area only is that I want to make sure things are working smoothly before I expand. I really want to avoid a situation where people are signing up and then not getting matched for lunch or having a bad experience. A secondary point is that I need a good source of free restaurant data. A lot of the APIs out there are pretty restrictive and I'm not sure of the best solution yet.

I definitely like the idea of lunch with 3 or 4 people. I'm not sure about 6 or 8 but open to the possibility. 2 is just for simplicities sake - as this gets started.

Great glad to have you on. Once there is some interesting or meaningful data I'll be sure to make a blog post. Thanks

Yeah.. sorry for the zip code only thing. I'm certainly interested in expanding as much as possible. For now my focus is on establishing some traction in one place and finding a business/marketing co-founder.

Thank you! Which parts do you think need fine tuning?

thanks Alain

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)

Thanks. Did you get anywhere at all with the project? I know of someone else who is working on a similar idea. Not sure how far along they are.

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