Give Local

Buy gift cards + support a local restaurant through COVID

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Buy gift cards + support a local restaurant through COVID

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Give Local helps you buy gift cards and support your favorite local restaurant through the COVID pandemic. Buy a gift card, and give restaurants the cash they need to make it through this trying time.

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Great work, Justin! Appreciate everything you're doing. I just added my friend's aunt's restaurant in LA – they're really worried right now so every little bit helps. For feature wishlists: would you consider adding a thumbnail photo (Yelp integration?) or connecting to some sort of giftcard platform?

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6yr ago

Give Local

Maker

@vickiheart Absolutely. Would love to add this - we'll take a look at it.

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6yr ago

Topology

Yes I love this idea! in fact, I had this idea, except you guys actually did something with the idea. Great job, I'll do my best to share. Suggestion: reach out to Nextdoor with this idea. They may help you push it out to their local communities.

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6yr ago

Topology

@jwmares interested to hear how you built this so quickly? Is it custom code or did you use a no-code stack?

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6yr ago

Give Local

Maker

@guesto We built the whole thing on Bubble.io in a day!

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6yr ago

Topology

@jwmares That's great! Good for you. I hope this gets some real traction.

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6yr ago

@guesto @jwmares Gotta love good old !Bubble .... awesome release by them today with Zeroqode

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6yr ago

Give Local

Maker

I'm concerned for the many businesses that will be economically hamstrung by lockdowns and the drop in foot traffic. Brent and I teamed up to build Give Local - a site that makes it easy for you to support a restaurant in your city by purchasing a gift card. We're still VERY much in beta, and would love help submitting more restaurants, more cities and getting this in front of restaurant owners. And for those who will inevitably ask, we make $0 on this and take no fees. Just doing this to try and help restaurants stay in business.

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6yr ago

Midas Merchants

@jwmares Is it open source? Would be cool to contribute to and I know others who would be interested.

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6yr ago

As much as I love the heart behind this, I think this will negatively affect small businesses in the long run once things go back to normal. Once businesses reopen, people will use the gift cards, rather than real money, leaving the small business hurting.

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6yr ago

Give Local

Maker

@brando_dud This effectively looks like an indefinite, interest-free loan to restaurants. It's hard for me to imagine a world in which is long-term painful for businesses that are going to have a very hard time.

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6yr ago

@brando_dud i doubt that, not all of the customers are going to buy gift cards. Only a section of the customers will, so it'll kind of be like the income being spread over a period of time. Which is a good deal, considering no business "at all".

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6yr ago

AngelList

Great work Justin. Really important cause. It would be great if local news outlets would cover this.

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6yr ago

Amazing cause and Nat is super passionate about helping and promoting local communities. Excited to see a tweet become a product.

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6yr ago

I added my business to this but was unclear what to put in the gift card line- I just put my URL in there instead. I don't know how to set up the back end of a gift card to put in there.. also would be good if you could broaden this out to service businesses and medical offices too so I can share with medical clients

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6yr ago

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