Built a micro-SaaS in 2 nights

One idea to consider:

Offer this as a free service to restaurants - build a big list - then sell that list an even more profitable product or service (design / web design, PPC advertising, email marketing, etc.)

I think the key part to include in your explanation is that most restaurants are moving away from reusable menus to avoid the spread of COVID. I work for clients in this sector and they’re either doing throw away one use menus or digital. You’re nearly there but get that across hard hitting and you’re more likely to convert.
I would also as painful is it may become especially with long menus is to do a responsive version for mobile. Build one template and CMS and just punch the data in. I know a large POS company in the QSR market just doing that.
Don’t worry to much about POS and ordering integration as that is going to complicate your proposition. There’s masses of independent restaurants who would and could use what you’ve built.

I just experienced this last night! The waiter just said "the menu is on our website..." - not a great experience.

Your landing page looks great for just a quick MVP. One concern I had was the $4 price point. I think it'll be hard to meaningfully grow MRR with a price point so low. Plus the cost of support (even if it's just your own time) will probably take up all of that and more.

Requiring a 6 or 12 month subscription right off the bat, maybe $20-$40 or so, could help alleviate this.

Cool!
I would love to know when you get your first restaurant to sign up (-:

The landing page is great. Template/hand-made?

Did you really finished all the design like logo/illustrations within 2 nights?

Great idea. Would love to explore about how to made it (code side part)

This is awesome and inspiring!
Big congrats on execution, hope valuation goes better than expected!

Impressive delivery - I really like the look & feel of your website. And this project is meaningful. @parkeragee

I am also running a side project, keen to hear your feedback too :)

Super interesting! How would you promote it? I was thinking about cold emails but than I realized that if a restaurant has an email it also has a website ( with a menu maybe ).

Let me now!

Btw, nice work!

Great Idea, I think this could be expanded in other ways as well. A few things that came to mind are the pamphlets with the emergency instructions on planes or the sheets with the information about a home and its realtor when you go to an open house.

I think it's a running piece of wisdom in the Indie Hacker world that everybody starts with an app for restaurants, fails, learns that you shouldn't sell to people who don't like to spend money, and move on.

Cool idea. Did you talk to 10 resturant owners before you started building it?

what a go-getter and a good looking (working) site in two nights :) China was like that 2-3 years ago. Every order just go through wechat mini-app or alipay mini-app by using a QR code.

You did the part for customers, but not for resturants. If your app could integrate with their current POS and management system (the machines they used to take order and the one in kitchen), I bet it will create a huge value for the resturants.

Not meant to discourage you. From what I know, square and Toast, two of the biggest pos for restaurants/stores, launched something similar on top of their offering. I belive it is going to become standard for the industry very soon based on the location.

https://www.sellercommunity.com/t5/Product-Updates/Self-Serve-Ordering-now-available-with-Square-Online/ba-p/203129

https://central.toasttab.com/s/article/Order-Pay-at-the-Table-FAQs#:~:text=Toast Order %26 Pay provides your,safety of their own device.

Like what kidino said, probably do something that is simple for certain restaurants. Find the niche. Like your attitude and quick action :) Best wishes to your journey.

Love the idea, but how does it work?

Suppose I'm a customer, I enter a restaurant that uses your app.

How would I order? Can you give the process...

I kinda have this idea too. But I didn't act on it. I call it Menu CMS. The key part is the web menu UI, that is comfortable to read on smart phones.

But I am seeing POS solutions also offer this right now. When I walk into the restaurant, I get a unique QR printed on a tiny sheet of paper, like the receipt. The QR is also encoded with my table number. I scan the QR and send in my order. I believe the kitchen gets the order immediately. And the order is recorded to my table.

This is not meant to discourage you. I believe there is still space for a simple, no-POS solution. A simple menu in your phone.

A similar idea I had was for Home Manual CMS for Airbnb Hosts. But people don't travel anymore.

www I want to steal your idea for do it in my country hahaha

I like the idea. Almost every restaurant in Germany has moved to contactless qr code based menus.

However, menu ui is really sucky and hard to use. It seems like the need is more to make the menu readable, consumable than generating the qr code.

Most restaurants I've visited already had the qr codes generated

I like the idea. All the best to your journey. <3