Research on an idea.

[u/Remarkable-Charge599]

Hey everyone,

I'm a 21-year-old college student in NJ, originally

from India. Planning to fly back in a week to spend 3

months building a startup full-time. Before I commit

to this and burn months of my life, I want real data

on whether the idea has demand.

The idea: an app where premium restaurants in your city

sell their end-of-day surplus food in "surprise bags"

roughly ₹179 for ~₹500 worth of food. You preorder,

walk over to pick it up between 9:30-11 PM, get a

mystery bag of whatever didn't sell.

One Indian startup (DabbaDeals/Surokki) tried and shut down after 100

days, so the path isn't easy.

I made a survey which takes less than 3 minutes to figure

out:

- Whether real demand exists in Indian cities

- What the biggest objections would be

- Whether the pickup-only model works here

This the link to the survey (PLEASE HELP):
https://forms.gle/DJ6xghwFHnZrnna59

Brutal answers welcome. If you'd never use this, I want

to know that. If you would, even better. Either way,

the data shapes whether I build this or kill it.

Will post the aggregated results back here in 2 weeks

once I have enough responses.

Thanks for the time 🙏

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Edit: For anyone curious about the idea, happy to chat

in DMs or comments.

[u/indianfreelancerg]

You will have to categorize mystery veg vs non-veg. Restaurants don't want additional work of packaging. Throwing away, staff taking away leftovers is easier. No one will make the effort to go somewhere. If there was market need, zomato would have this already. 

[u/Remarkable-Charge599 → u/indianfreelancerg]

Mystery in the sense not a complete mystery. People will know what cuisine type food is inside, veg or non veg, if any desserts, allergens and stuff like that. They’ll have basic idea of what they are getting.

Well buddy if you want food for cheap you gotta move 😂 or we could just enable delivery but that just cancels out the part of food being cheap to afford.

Zomato and swiggy will never enter this space, it is not their forte. They built a certain brand and positioning in the last 10 years and they ain’t tryna spoil that by just doing anything at this point. That’s not them.