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Quail mentions (4)

• Square Is Down

  This is absolutely killing me (https://quailhq.com) -- I've got hundreds of antique stores trying to get us on the phone, all wanting to know why their card readers have suddenly stopped working. It's going to be a long, long day. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned

  Two of these (plus another, Price Parrot, that I forgot to include: https://sandpiperhq.com/pricing !), are spin-outs of a side-project (https://quailhq.com) that I started in 2014and that I've been working on for 7 years -- and that became my full-time job in 2021. That one definitely isn't a failure! The five (six including Price Parrot) are just the failures from this year. I try to live by "fail fast"! - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• As a solo developer, I decided to offer phone support

  I offer phone support for a niche accounting app (https://quailhq.com), and everything in this article rings 112% true to me -- but especially this: > ...all sorts of people call you, and I’ve really learned a lot by talking with users directly on the phone. Sometimes users call me because they want to report a bug, or they've forgotten their email address. Sometimes they want business advice (!), or they have a... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• [Opinion] Take high paying job or finish out SaaS

  Source: juggled a SaaS side-project https://quailhq.com and a full-time engineering job (Palantir) for years; am now full-time self-employed on the SaaS at roughly the same income I had from the job. Source: almost 3 years ago

Toast mentions (11)

• Problems with Grubhub?

  Toast is the point of sale system that many restaurants use - it integrates a lots of aspects of the restaurant https://pos.toasttab.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• What is the best CRM for a small business?

  Hey! I'm not as familiar with the restaurant space but I've heard good things about Toast. You may need to use their point-of-sale system to get the full benefits, but they do have a CRM, ERP tools, and some marketing capabilities built into their software. Source: over 1 year ago

• Waitstaff, do you prefer separate checks for parties of 10-15 or waiting for them to figure out how to split the check?

  For others who are confused: Toast is a point-of-sale (POS) app used by restaurants to charge customers. Source: over 1 year ago

• Japan: Depopulation a surefire formula for national ruin

  Even without robots, services like Toast can cut down the number of waiters needed by moving ordering & table service to smartphones. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Data science for small businesses / restaurants

  I think toast https://pos.toasttab.com/ does this for restaurants. They sell point of sale systems, but also back office software too. That enables them to collect all the data, then they provide analytics that is supposed to help the restaurant be more profitable. Source: about 2 years ago