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- Good customers exist
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- Good drivers exist
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- ↳ What's a fair price for food delivery?
- ↳ Ordering through restaurant app vs ordering through delivery app
- ↳ Houses vs Apartments vs Offices $$$$$
- ↳ How much does smoking bother you?
- ↳ When and how do you use (ride share)? What's a fair price? How about STOPS?
- ↳ Would you use 2x week shopping or on-demand or none?
- ↳ How often do you expect to bring (luggage/groceries) on your ride?
- ↳ How often do you expect to need assistance with a mobility device (wheelchair/walker)?
- ↳ Do you expect that a driver would have a (baby/booster) seat?
- ↳ Expectations as Drivers
- ↳ Drivers - general opinions here
- ↳ What's your price point for a 20-minute job?
- ↳ What equipment do you expect to carry? (car seat, hot bag, etc)
- ↳ How many hours or days do you like to work per week?
- ↳ Do you work when the weather is bad, or stay home?
- ↳ Do you have commercial auto insurance? (opinions not a sales pitch)
- ↳ Do you have contingency for repairs, emergencies, and injuries?
- ↳ Expectations as Retail Partners
- ↳ Retail Partners - general opinions here
- ↳ Are you already too busy or do you want more orders?
- ↳ Does your store use a delivery app?
- ↳ Would you rather customers order through your app or the delivery service?
- ↳ Would you list your specials on a delivery app - with a link to YOUR app?
- ↳ With delivery app orders is it an inconvenience to confirm each order? (stores and restaurants)
- ↳ Restaurants - Do you think thermal bags help keep food (hot/cold/fresh)?
- ↳ How long do you expect food to stay (hot/cold/fresh) BEFORE the food is picked up?
- ↳ Do you expect to check names/phones to hand out orders?
- ↳ Do you often expect (big/heavy/awkward) orders?
- ↳ If you run a BAR or HOTEL - Do you expect to see many people in need of rides? (weekly avg)
- General Discussion
- ↳ Evaluating the Overall Market and Current Options
- ↳ Big Picture
- ↳ How Big is the Market?
- ↳ Summary of Current Options
- ↳ Are People Satisfied, Generally?
- ↳ Official Trends
- ↳ Examples from Related Industries
- ↳ Your Predictions for 2030, 2050, 2100
- ↳ Meanwhile: Empowering Local Neighborhoods
- ↳ Current Options in Detail
- ↳ Taxi Cabs and Limousines
- ↳ How Do Taxis/Limos Relate to the Gig Economy?
- ↳ How Many Taxi/Limo Drivers?
- ↳ How Many Taxi/Limo Customers?
- ↳ Examples to Follow or Avoid
- ↳ History of Taxi Cabs and Limousines
- ↳ Market Rates
- ↳ Ongoing Questions
- ↳ Restaurant-Provided Delivery
- ↳ How Does This Relate to the Gig Economy?
- ↳ How Many Drivers?
- ↳ How Many Customers?
- ↳ Examples to Follow or Avoid
- ↳ History of Restaurant-Provided Delivery
- ↳ Market Rates
- ↳ Ongoing Questions
- ↳ Mega-Apps
- ↳ How Does This Relate to the Gig Economy?
- ↳ How Many Drivers?
- ↳ How Many Customers?
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- ↳ Existing Local Networks
- ↳ How Does This Relate to the Gig Economy?
- ↳ How Many Drivers?
- ↳ How Many Customers?
- ↳ Examples to Follow or Avoid
- ↳ History of Local Networks
- ↳ Market Rates
- ↳ Ongoing Questions
- ↳ Franchise Delivery Networks
- ↳ How Does This Relate to the Gig Economy?
- ↳ How Many Drivers?
- ↳ How Many Customers?
- ↳ Examples to Follow or Avoid
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- ↳ Market Rates
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- ↳ Why Bother?
- ↳ Activism, Independence, Apathy, Legal Maneuvers
- ↳ Big Picture of Action
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- ↳ Project Outline and Initial Ideas Document
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- ↳ About the DeliveryCats Cooperatives Project
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- [--DEBATE ARENA--]
- ↳ PART 1 - The App (open-source platform)
- ↳ Required Specs for Community Platform
- ↳ Spec List
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- ↳ Rent a Functional Delivery App (Monthly)
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- ↳ v1.0
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- ↳ ** FOSS Project **
- ↳ Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Project
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- [--DEBATE ARENA--]
- ↳ PART 2 - The Plan (organizational template)
- ↳ First Read the Room
- ↳ Who Will Discourage the Idea?
- ↳ Who is Pushing the Idea?
- ↳ Urban Modifications
- ↳ Rural Modifications
- ↳ Is it Sustainable?
- ↳ First Look at Numbers
- ↳ Defining the Area and Scope
- ↳ Committing to Ethics and Excellence
- ↳ Start Up of a Cooperative
- ↳ Avoid Traps Before Falling In
- ↳ Setting Up the Business
- ↳ Setting up the Office
- ↳ Setting up the Policy Book
- ↳ Talking to Stores, Restaurants
- ↳ Finding Customers
- ↳ Finding Drivers
- ↳ Management of a Cooperative
- ↳ Administrative Tasks
- ↳ Routine Management Tasks
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- ↳ Non-toxic Positivity
- [--DEBATE ARENA--]
- ↳ ** Logistics Best Practices **
- ↳ Trust and Quality
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- ↳ Segments
- ↳ General Logistics
- ↳ Hot-Food-Specifically
- ↳ Passengers-Specifically
- ↳ Shopping-Specifically
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- ↳ Errands-Specifically
- ↳ Other Labor/Service (careful)
- ↳ Membership Account
- ↳ Profiles
- ↳ Trading Post
- ↳ Bartering / Special Requests
- ↳ Status Updates
- ↳ Ordering
- ↳ Picking up
- ↳ Shopping
- ↳ Transport
- ↳ Delivering
- ↳ Verification
- ↳ Age-Sensitive Verification
- ↳ Conclude Transaction
- ↳ Problems / Support
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- ↳ Deliverables v1.0 (2024)
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