<story><title>Rate my startup: ChompStack, a mobile website builder for restaurants</title><url>http://www.chompstack.com</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevenwei</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chompstack.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.chompstack.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We all know how mobile unfriendly restaurant websites tend to be. Many of them are done in Flash, and don&apos;t work at all on most phones. Others force you to download PDF menus which take forever to load and have an annoying tendency to lock up my phone.&lt;p&gt;The irony, of course, is that I&apos;m &lt;i&gt;most&lt;/i&gt; likely to be looking at restaurant websites on my phone, when I&apos;m around town looking for an interesting place to eat. There&apos;s nothing more frustrating than pulling up a restaurant website, only to see a Flash page that doesn&apos;t work, or a desktop website that you have to pinch, zoom, and scroll your way around.&lt;p&gt;I built ChompStack to make it easier for restaurants to create mobile friendly versions of their websites.&lt;p&gt;Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated.&lt;p&gt;I feel like our biggest challenge with this service is getting in touch with restaurant owners and convincing them of the value of having a mobile website, most of them don&apos;t seem to be particularly interested in technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drusenko</author><text>Why don&apos;t you have a very limited free version that lets them kick the tires without paying you anything?&lt;p&gt;Then, put the free version limit at 25 page views per month, or something small. Once it&apos;s all set up and running, and customers are visiting the mobile site, they&apos;ll &quot;see the value&quot; and be much more inclined to pay up :)</text></comment>
<story><title>Rate my startup: ChompStack, a mobile website builder for restaurants</title><url>http://www.chompstack.com</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>stevenwei</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chompstack.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.chompstack.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We all know how mobile unfriendly restaurant websites tend to be. Many of them are done in Flash, and don&apos;t work at all on most phones. Others force you to download PDF menus which take forever to load and have an annoying tendency to lock up my phone.&lt;p&gt;The irony, of course, is that I&apos;m &lt;i&gt;most&lt;/i&gt; likely to be looking at restaurant websites on my phone, when I&apos;m around town looking for an interesting place to eat. There&apos;s nothing more frustrating than pulling up a restaurant website, only to see a Flash page that doesn&apos;t work, or a desktop website that you have to pinch, zoom, and scroll your way around.&lt;p&gt;I built ChompStack to make it easier for restaurants to create mobile friendly versions of their websites.&lt;p&gt;Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated.&lt;p&gt;I feel like our biggest challenge with this service is getting in touch with restaurant owners and convincing them of the value of having a mobile website, most of them don&apos;t seem to be particularly interested in technology.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jroes</author><text>Instead of charging a flat setup or monthly fee, have you thought about pivoting your business model so that customers can order through your app, and you charge a percentage fee to the restaurant owner?&lt;p&gt;I think skeptical restaurant owners would choose that no-risk option, and you&apos;d probably make more money.  Restaurant owners who think it&apos;ll be successful in making sales would probably be willing to pay a decent sum per month.&lt;p&gt;I agree with the other commenter that you are probably not charging enough.  I think this kind of service has high value if it can demonstrably increase sales.</text></comment>