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Haha, I didn't know this parody of ycombinator.com

So, "AirBnBForY" is the punchline for the HN post but we obviously don't pitch it like this :)

Thanks. I can't wait to see what Feastly will look like. I wish them the best of luck !

It's a tough battle out there but it's very interesting !

Hey Michael !

I'll try to answer to you questions:

>-how do you ensure safety on both ends (buyer and seller)?

We do review the hosts manually. For the guests, they have to talk with the hosts in order to make a booking reservation so I guess if they don't get along nothing is going to happen. We also have a review/rating system.

>-why would someone want to use your platform instead of doing their own underground restaurant? Well, it's not only for money but also for the pleasure to share your food, culture, ... with someone else. And in order to start an underground restaurant you need to get known, it might be kind of hard if it's underground.

>-how do you vet hosts?

Sorry for my broken english, but I don't understand this question.

>-Is there a vetting process for hosts?

Yes

> -how do you ensure a pleasant group meal dynamic?

We have a blog[1] where we are trying to tell our hosts how to organize/... the event and how to deal with the culture difference.

My twitter handle and my email are in my HN profile, you're welcome to ping me !

[1] http://theartof.cookening.com

Thanks !

I will check it out.

Twist: I'm Hannibal Lecter !

Thank you for the kind words.

You forgot to mention many other websites on the market :)

Yes but how do we make money then ?

Thanks for the link !

Yeah yeah. In French we say: "les goûts et les couleurs, ça ne se discute pas". I let you think about it.

Thank you !

I think we met you at Leweb 2012 in Paris.

Best of luck for you !

Thank you !

It is actually the same concept.

Let me know how it went with eatwith. My email and my twitter handle are in my HN profile.

Thank you !

This should definitively be a best practice.

Well it's punchline for HackerNews, not a pitch for YC

It's now our main focus.

Here is a great talk of Brian Chesky(Co-founder of Airbnb): http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272180383

There is still a lot of work to do ! This is just the beginning !

Thank you !

Thanks for the tips. I will follow them :)

It's still going. We know them pretty well :)

Thank you for the feed back, I'll tell our UI/UX guy !

Addons: Heroku Postgres, Memcachier, New Relic, SSL Endpoint. 1 worker, a few dynos. We don't spend a lot in infrastructure.

Thanks and let me know if you use it ! My twitter handle and my email are in my HN profile.

Thanks !

Actually, as soon as possible ! We still have a lot of work to do, especially to convert foodies into hosts and travelers into guests but we are working on it !

I know, we need to get more hosts and we are working on it. Thanks for the feedback !

Thank you !

You're right, I did a bit of a mic mac there.

They are still not compliant with Safe Harbor in the US. Anyway since our company is located in France, the french privacy law allow us to use a hosting located in EU (instead of a US SafeHarbor one). Heroku did the EU launch just for this.

Thanks for the kind words !

We currently have hosts in Chile, Canada, ... so Asia should come soon. Basically as soon as someone open a table in Asia it's done. If you are asking about our marketing strategy, I don't know yet.

For those who want to know the tech stack. We are running on heroku(the european datacenter)[1] and amazon S3, we use RoR with some pretty nice gems(active admin, devise, ...) and Jquery for the JS. For metric we use Mixpanel and Google Analytics. For our emails we use Amazon and Mailjet.

The are on the european DC because of the Safe Harbor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Safe_Harbor_Priva...

Looks like eatfeastly.com is more oriented for local guests with local hosts and we try to focus more with international guest

We take a 16,7% on every booking request. https://www.cookening.com/en/faq/guests#answer2

The design is very clean, I love it !