Compare it to something like www.graze.com, which IMO is one of the nicest sites around at the moment. 
£600k, Dragons Den..
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Caporegime
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Have seen the YooDoo doll and the puzzle type thing.
Soldato
I've seen those medical fridge vans delivering drugs quite a few times
Associate
I can't help but think , if an idea is absolutely brilliant , you wouldn't need to go on Dragon's Den to get investors 
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Man of Honour
Graze is beautiful and delicious - setup by the same people who started Lovefilm.Compare it to something like www.graze.com, which IMO is one of the nicest sites around at the moment.
As I use both, maybe I should get a discount
something weird with this site.. which suggest that the developers have not fully tested this site out properly...
click around and noticed that there was my home page option...
i didn't sign in, register or anything....
i don't believe that for a second, that you would be able knock that out.
click around and noticed that there was my home page option...
i didn't sign in, register or anything....
i don't believe that for a second, that you would be able knock that out.
Associate
Ha , i think you can edit the account info here aswell
Edit : Another error ,
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Edit : lol , changed some account info and you can now login with user : [email protected] and password : lol .
Edit : Another error ,
: Edit : lol , changed some account info and you can now login with user : [email protected] and password : lol .
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So good coding for the money then. 
the site could easily be cloned and apear far better by someone in there spare time and it wouldnt cost anywhere near 600k, it wouldnt be that hard to negotiate with asda , tesco wherever either to get some commision for ingredients.
you dont need to spend loads of money on marketing just go around a bunch of cooking forums
i dont see how any real money can be made from such a venture though i doubt many people will order ingredients via the site.
theres far better cooking sites anyway such as the ones where you can put in the ingredients you have and they give you a list of recipes you could make
you dont need to spend loads of money on marketing just go around a bunch of cooking forums
i dont see how any real money can be made from such a venture though i doubt many people will order ingredients via the site.
theres far better cooking sites anyway such as the ones where you can put in the ingredients you have and they give you a list of recipes you could make
Man of Honour
Those saying it's Wordpress - it can't be as it's an ASP site.
The odd thing is that there's lots of other sites doing this too:
http://www.foodari.com
http://www.tastyplanner.com
http://www.recipezaar.com
I expect the advantage of this site is the business sales they have (sorry but what did BT pay £10k for?) and the offline marketing they've done.
The odd thing is that there's lots of other sites doing this too:
http://www.foodari.com
http://www.tastyplanner.com
http://www.recipezaar.com
I expect the advantage of this site is the business sales they have (sorry but what did BT pay £10k for?) and the offline marketing they've done.
Yeah I noticed that, they obviously think there's something to businesses that generate a recurring income.
I can't think of any sites that are big on the internet, that haven't had venture capital funding at some stage of their development. Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Youtube et al all took large amounts of venture capital.
So I take it this site is just for making money when they sell it in the future? Building the site and userbase up and then selling that, not advertising or selling of actual goods?
As for the design, I quite like it, however I 'm not going to comment on how well coded it is.
As for the design, I quite like it, however I 'm not going to comment on how well coded it is.
Soldato
is it possible that they've got purchases from businesses basically for access to the DB, maybe with the shopping facility, I've heard several mentions from different media companies and even some tv manufacturers about providing some kind of recipe book solution. The website shouldn't have cost anything like that, but I can't imagine they actually spent more than 50-100k on the site itself
Soldato
£600k is what you sell business of that type for, not mount up the running costs. Even in dot com times if you had £600k running costs over 2 years for a niche, European run no direct sales or straight profit making website that depends on user contributions like cooking recipes blog investors would step in and start chopping your bills and staff left right and center as it's impossible to recover those kind of debts without over the top sale to numnut rubbish collectors like AOL. And let's face it - even AOL wouldn't buy it unless it was finished, secure, US based with few million active users.
In due diligence process they will probably also discover there are no legal grounds which would allow the site itself to sell on cherished recipes and mechanisms to prohibit users from submitting already patented or branded recipes. Which means the moment book is out you'll have lawsuits for "this is my grammas recipe in my family for centuries" and "what were you thinking publishing jafa cakes production notes" by a dozen.
As far as web businesses go this one is absolute insanity. There is nothing in that website except good domain (relatively - certainly better that desperate word salads like recipezaar.com or foodari.com). However, the fact that mydish.com is already owned by satellite tv provider in US and "mydish" is registered trademark over there, this business will never scale internationally as a brand and there is simply not enough income to be had from recipe site in UK.
And on that note. I'm not going to invest and I'm out.
In due diligence process they will probably also discover there are no legal grounds which would allow the site itself to sell on cherished recipes and mechanisms to prohibit users from submitting already patented or branded recipes. Which means the moment book is out you'll have lawsuits for "this is my grammas recipe in my family for centuries" and "what were you thinking publishing jafa cakes production notes" by a dozen.
As far as web businesses go this one is absolute insanity. There is nothing in that website except good domain (relatively - certainly better that desperate word salads like recipezaar.com or foodari.com). However, the fact that mydish.com is already owned by satellite tv provider in US and "mydish" is registered trademark over there, this business will never scale internationally as a brand and there is simply not enough income to be had from recipe site in UK.
And on that note. I'm not going to invest and I'm out.
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Soldato
I just liked this...
http://www.mydish.co.uk/ver.php
Running php via IIS...
Ok.
Surprised to see the site even still going!
http://www.mydish.co.uk/ver.php
Running php via IIS...
Ok.
Surprised to see the site even still going!
Soldato