Bitmenu 2.0 - From Zero to First Sale: Table-Ordering via QR Code in 5 Minutes
Back from the back burner
While this project has been on the back burner for a couple of months, we've started working on it again. Now that I've settled in at my new day job and had some time to learn more about how to build a small SaaS startup, I wanted to give Bitmenu another go. This time, instead of trying to do B2C directly using SEO and Google Ads, we'll instead focus on just making that sale by directly going to restaurants (starting with ones where we know the owners) and convincing them of how nice it'd be if one could just order directly from their tables.
Smooth ordering, smoother onboarding
To accomplish this, we've been focusing on getting this ordering feature working super smoothly as well as making the setup as simple as possible. The idea is that it should only take a couple of minutes and a café is all set up to take orders using our system. I've also got some hardware so that I can print out the required QR codes directly from my phone:
Got this super cheap printer, great tool since I can now print QR-Codes while at a potential customer
Five-minute setup checklist
Apart from all this I've also added a bunch of features that are necessary in order to make selling to potential customers much nicer for us, since we'll be busy talking to the customer the tech behind everything should be super smooth. So currently in order to setup table ordering for a restaurant we only need to do a couple of things:
- Create a new restaurant
- Take a picture of the menu, a LLM will then analyze and create a structured menu from that
- Type in all the tables numbers / identifiers into a textarea
- Print out all the QR-Codes
- Let an employee scan a special QR-Code so they receive the orders
That's it, should only take a couple of minutes and we're done. Hopefully this will convince some people to go for a paid plan so that we're finally seeing some revenue, since staying motivated is quite hard with zero revenue.
Hackathon tomorrow, live test on Monday
So tomorrow I'll be meeting up with my cofounder to do some last minute hackathon before we're testing it Monday/Wednesday with our first test customer, hope things will work out and that people will be as excited as I am about it.
Adiós, べン