It's funny when this kind of thing happens. I built an app that was basically tindr for a project in college, several years before tindr started. Guess I should have release it

[–] Ace_of_spades@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow! Something similar for me: in 2007 I built a website that had the same functionality as Hungry House. Basically a place where take-away restaurants could put their menus up and take orders. It didn't take off and it only cost me a couple of month's of work. Then Hungry House, Uber Eats etc came along a decade later and nailed it.

[–] Cras@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

To be fair to you, I don't imagine they did anything better than you on the menus and ordering, it's the fact that they provide the delivery that made it work

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 1 points 1 year ago

I remember thinking about making a website that would let people buy groceries from my site at a markup, then I'd go to the local stores, do the shopping, and deliver it to them. That was probably around ~8 years ago, inspired by my job managing a pizza place. Like "Hey, people are lazy and love getting food delivered to them, why doesn't anyone do groceries, too?"

Though I never built it out because a developer I may be, a businessman I am not.

[–] lanbanger@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did similar, but for Whatsapp. Mine pre-dated ubiquitous connectivity, so had to be SMS based, which limited scalability. Had I been perhaps 1-2 years later, I could have been cage-fighting Elon Musk and getting imploded next to the Titanic 🤷‍♀️

[–] viruswithshoes@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey don't give up on your dreams! Although I will say, I'm not sure you can achieve them simultaneously.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hold up, bear with me here, what if, ULTIMATE FIGHTING SUBS! Two billionaires have to build and pilot their own submarines to fight to the death in front of the titanic.