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Freshview's new application
Posted by Mathew Patterson on May 2, 2008 10:39 AM
With Campaign Monitor and MailBuild growing well, the Freshview team has been expanded recently. It now includes our new developer, Phil, our fully imported from Canada support and community guy, Travis, and our sole representative to the entire Northern Hemisphere, Diana.
With extra development resources available, we've been able to spend some time on a brand new product, which we are all pretty excited about. This product, although still a web application, is a bit of change of direction for Freshview and today we're giving you a sneak peek.
Introducing.....Lunch 1.0
Sick of having to walk all the way downstairs and across the road to the sandwich place? Embarrased by the thought of speaking to somebody in person? Irritated by the people in line who don't have their order ready when they get to the front? Lunch 1.0 is for you!
End your lunch ordering troubles forever!
OK, maybe I'm overselling it a little. This is actually a little internal application that sits on the Freshview intranet. Now that we have free lunches for all staff, we found that a lot of time was being wasted running about trying to make sure each person's order had been taken.
So this little one page application just lets everyone order their lunch (up to 11am) and then faxes off the order to our local sandwich place. They deliver around 12:30 and we can all eat together, with only 60 seconds of effort involved per person.
As well as adding your order, you can see what you have already eaten recently, and also copy and modify other team members creations for yourself. It's a good way to get out of the 'ham, cheese and tomato' rut!
Thanks go to new developer Phil who put it all together! Feature requests are already arriving for version 2, including a reminder about 'junk food Fridays' and some smarts for public holidays.
Popular sandwiches from Freshview staff
"The Peterson"
Multigrain sandwich with roast beef, tomato, cheese, cucumber, and mayo
"Sandwich mountain"
Multigrain sandwich, butter, ham, all salads except spinach instead of lettuce, swiss cheese, salt + pepper
"Gluteus Minimus"
Turkey sandwich on Gluten-free bread, all salads except tomato and onion, hot mustard, pepper and tasty cheese
Suggestions for great sandwiches are welcome!
Travis Bell
wrote on May 2, 2008 11:38 AM
I'm almost embarrassed but then lunch arrives, and my worries go away. ;-)
Yes, Lunch 1.0 is a beautiful thing.
Wolf
wrote on May 2, 2008 8:07 PM
We joked around about this sort of app for a while in our offices. This is great :)
Bart
wrote on May 2, 2008 9:28 PM
Hey, I want to sign up!!
James
wrote on May 10, 2008 12:29 AM
Haha - I wrote something very similar for the intranet at a place I used to work once...
josh
wrote on May 19, 2008 2:00 PM
sweat idea. i love the concept, wish i could play with it. it might be a great idea to open up, something like twitter.
Mark
wrote on May 19, 2008 6:31 PM
Put this on the open internet so I can keep track of what you guys are eating.
Bryan
wrote on May 20, 2008 11:15 AM
This sounds awesome! How bout you guys extend the invitation to your office neighbours (i.e Centacare) so we can add in our lunch orders =)
Jae Gillentine
wrote on June 30, 2008 1:40 PM
Freaking cool! I'm hungry.
Wilfred Stegeman
wrote on September 18, 2008 7:26 PM
Do you think they also can deliver in Amsterdam around 12:30 (GMT+1)? Otherwise it would be great if we can lay our hands on this app somewhere!
Kirk Bushell
wrote on September 24, 2008 5:51 PM
I really envy your guys' development environment. You guys and 37signals just seem to have this unique, family-feel that is so rare in the corporate world these days that it just puts a smile on my face.... A lunch app - excellently "lol" :P
Keep up the good work lads and ladies :)
Dave Greiner
wrote on September 28, 2008 7:17 AM
Wilfred, I'll have to check with our caterers about delivery, not sure if they do international.
Kirk, considering a team member just had a new baby, and one's currently pregnant we've got a family feel in more ways than one. Thanks for the very kind words.
WTF?
wrote on November 11, 2008 5:27 PM
What a stupid blog post. You guys are stuck with "small syndrome". It's posts like this that will keep you small.
Andrew
wrote on November 13, 2008 11:22 PM
I have just been looking through your site and it is brilliant. Loving the lunch option and the whole deal you guys/gals have. Going to try and suggest getting a ping pong table to the boss here!
Ryan Atkins
wrote on February 21, 2009 12:14 AM
"WTF?
wrote on November 11, 2008 5:27 PM
What a stupid blog post. You guys are stuck with "small syndrome". It's posts like this that will keep you small."
Can I just say I completely disagree, it is a great marketing point. Their software is designed for small independent designers and web developers primarily. This is the fun, but professional feel the company should be giving off.
Put a smile on my face anyway.
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Chuck Reynolds
wrote on March 4, 2009 1:54 PM
Nice guys... at one point I wanted to build a site to help you think of what to eat at lunch because I'll sit there for hours trying to think of what to eat and never eat.... I dubbed it LunchCompass but never built it and just stopped caring... but this is cool!
Ever going to release it?
K
wrote on September 29, 2009 10:25 PM
So stop with the teasing - when can we download or access our own lunch ordering systems online?
Got anything to add?