September 2011
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August 2011
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WatchHousefed breaks its legendary silence on the carb issue.
Team Amir.
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Torta de Morango? More like torta de more-torta
We love our Brazil family on Housefed. Like Flavia, who’s showing off her Torta de morango.
Anyway, gonna go look up Brazilians bakeries on Google. No reason really.
July 2011
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1st Housefed Meal Pics
On Thursday night, I had the first Housefed meal at my house. Amazingly fun! While it took a bit longer to get all the food together, all in all everyone had a great time, and I’ve already heard some things about a possible event later this week :) Check Housefed later today!
But here are some photos! (Thanks to Leah, Erin, and Peter for the photos!)
housefed.com →
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Three Social Experiments for Growing a Marketplace
Housefed meals are now live in San Francisco. The first meal is at my house - a BBQ which is already half full with Googlers & Yelpers (book your spot now to meet some cool people!).
As I look to grow the community, I am trying three different approaches at spreading the site to other cities. With the inbound interest on these features, I thought I’d explain my reasoning, and seek...
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A BBQ with Googlers & Yelpers- The 1st Housefed...
Housefed is now open for home-meals in the Bay Area! After a few months of development, a few weeks for Paypal approval, and thousands of users later- Housefed’s 1st meal is up - a BBQ at my house in San Francisco. So far we have Googlers & Yelpers coming so grab a seat while you still can!
June 2011
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What's wrong with being wrong?
Last week, I wrote a post Delete your homepage. The premise was, ‘Instead of worrying about homepage optimization, put up a signup form, and just focus on your product. If you are doing a good job, your users will tell their friends to sign up.’ All of the feedback was, ‘This is wrong.’ My response- ‘What’s wrong with being wrong?’
The mentality in Silicon...
The web has forgotten something
On my way to Watermelon beer on the beach (which got detoured by the freezing SF weather which changes every 1000 meters), I ran into Craig Newmark. Well I didn’t run into him - he was on the same train as me, and I saw him as he exited. In a moment of geeky excitement, I tweeted, “@craignewmark sighting getting off the N. Ok that was cool.” He replied (yeah, double the geeky...
Delete your homepage
Traditional advice on Homepage design is, “Have a clear message with a more than obvious call to action.” Then A/B test it till you are blue in the face. I think this is wrong. Instead of worrying about the effectiveness of your homepage, delete it, and worry about building a great service. Your users will sell your site for you.
For the last few years, we have been in a homepage/arms...
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Launch your site too soon
Housefed has been live for a little more than 2 months without the core functionality. On March 28th - with only a few days of testing, I posted ‘Review my startup: Housefed.com - Airbnb for Food’ to get feedback on the idea, and my execution so far. Because I launched it before I was ready, I got real feedback, which forced to me to address the bugs which real visitors & users...
May 2011
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Housefed is on Techcrunch! →
“Will services like Housefed, which provides a personal meal service, create a welcome alternative to nuking frozen food for dinner? ”- From “The P2P Evolution”
April 2011
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We hit 500 users!!
This week we passed 500 users! 1 month down - 500 users. So awesome! We have a long road to go, but thanks for all of the support! This is just the beginning :)
Housefed's featured on Simplegeo! →
Upload Your Food Pics!
Big news - no more image cropper!!!
Since we launched, we used this terrible image cropper. Well those days are gone! Now its a simple one step process, upload the image & then there it is.
Not sure if this is really blog post worthy, but it is definitely a huge improvement. :)
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Where are we going!?
I’ve gotten some emails from you guys wondering about the direction of the site, Meals, and whats going on at HQ. So I wanted to just give you all a sense for our goals, and the reasoning behind some of the features.
Our goal for Housefed is to build a community marketplace of people you can book a meal with. Traveling in Istanbul? Find a host, book a meal, and meet up at the host’s...
March 2011
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Housefed is live!
After a few weeks of coding and a couple iterations, we launched Housefed yesterday. There is a lot of work to do, but this is going to be one fun ride.
Our goal is to connect foodies around the world. We are working on this problem piece by piece. The first part of the site is allowing users to share photos of their home-cooked dishes. There are some amazing dishes already up - check them out!
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“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be...”
– M. F. K. Fisher