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So, these past couple of weeks we've been working on Bitmenu again—this time focusing on the table-ordering feature via QR code. We already have a first test customer and will test everything out in his restaurant.

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.

An example menu showing the ordering dialog on a typical desktop

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:

Picture of our new sales buddy 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:

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.

An example menu showing the ordering dialog on a typical phone

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