EatWith

EatWith

Dine in homes around the world.

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Ryan Hoover
Product Hunt
EatWith has been around a while and just announced an $8M fundraise from Greylock. The model is similar to Grubwithus, a service I used to use shortly after I moved to SF, now in the deadpool.
Alex
Trails.com
Hunter
@rrhoover EatWith did/does a fair bit of curation/vetting of hosts using city ambassadors so it is not just a dinner but more of an experience in a lot of cases.
Bram Kanstein (@bramk)
Startup Stash
This is cool!
Alex
Trails.com
Hunter
I've used many times and many dinners are more of an experience than just a dinner.
Lenny Hu
SherlockHQ
Looks interesting. Reminds me of Housefed. Emile (the founder of Housefed) actually chimed in on this Quora thread about the "AirBnB" of food. http://www.quora.com/Will-Airbnb...
Malcolm Ong
@LennsHu because of the reasons Emile listed, plus being familiar w/ Grubwithus' model, I'm skeptical EatWith will be any different.
Lasse Clausen
Good or Bad
As much as I love the idea, I'm sceptical about P2P for services in general: the marginal costs are just too high for a non professional to compete with a professional who has economies of scale. More on this, including a scrappy little framework to evaluate P2P models: http://lasseclausen.tumblr.com/p...
shawnvenkat
Wooble Attack
@alxmlv Interesting concept and will work for those looking to meet new people. I am not sure how huge the market is for this
Alex
Trails.com
Hunter
@shawnvenkat I am not sure if its an addressable market issue but also how to keep best hosts on board to maintain supply. Time will tell :)