What search term did you use on thumbtack to find your cook. I would love to be able to pay only $100/week for what amounts to 40 servings (4 people * 2 (lunch and dinner) * 5 days). That comes out to $2.5 per serving for the labor of cooking. I've looked into personal chefs before and the quotes I've received are generally $15+ per serving (not including food costs).
Congrats Garry, Alexis and team. Just to add another anecdote: We are backed by Initialized coming out of YC S16 batch. Incredibly awesome to work with such founder friendly investors. I'm sure the perspective that Garry/Alexis gained by going through YC themselves gives them this sort of empathy towards other founders.
Curious to know how you handle dependencies between services. For example, say you have a User service, I could imagine creating a client library for interacting with this service (the library being responsible for knowing where the http end point is, serializing/unserializing JSON into domain objects, etc.). Then any service wanting to interact with the User service just adds this library as a dependency.
Along those same lines how do you deal with fetching of domain objects and associated relationships from these services? For example, let's say in one instance you want a user and their manager and in another instance you want a user and their manager's manager and so forth for any relationship that a user might have (that the User service is responsible for).
I wonder if they have plans to automate the process (e.g. like Shyp). I'm assuming the way it works right now is that employees send out gifts on a case by case basis. What use cases are there for automation?
Some companies are interested in an API or CRM plugin that would fire off a handwritten card to a lead or a thank you gift to a new client. Right now, there's no API; but you can set up campaigns on SalesForce, Marketo, ZenDesk etc to send us a list of contacts that would receive a card.
We've done campaigns where we send a batch of cards/gifts and our portal also allows for one-offs anytime. Definitely more manual than API, but no harder than sending an email.
Use cases: client appreciation, customer success, employee on-boarding, birthdays, etc. And then, of course, there are the holidays. Every company wants to automate that process.
