Hey everyone!
Saucedrop was born after a combination of things happened at the same time. First off my wife and I had become increasingly bored of the standard hot sauces stocked at our local grocery store. Secondly, I was witness to a very long and heated discussion with my colleagues at ustwo about which hot sauce was better - Cholula, Tabasco or Sriracha.
This was the light bulb moment.
Looking for a variety of flavorsome sauces and consistent quality beyond the big names was proving to be difficult, which gave us an idea.
Wouldn't it be great if we could get the best sauces hot sauces from around the world delivered directly to our home every month?
We we would love feedback about our shipping frequencies/quantities - hot sauce seems to be fairly divisive, with some fans buying very frequently, and others dabbling only once in a while, we'd like to improve our range to cater for all tastes. Thanks!
@dnfisher this is the BEST IDEA EVER! Hot sauce for life.
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I'm interested. I'm actually already subscribed to a different hot-sauce-of-the-month club. I mainly use them for marinades. I get two bottles and they're usually gone after 6 weeks each.
Have you given some thought to the amount v. time issue? This was really critical to me.
@uxandrew Hey Andrew, we spent a whole day at the Hot Sauce Expo that happened here in Brooklyn about a month ago doing market research (and tasting sauces!) mainly trying to establish what the best amount/frequency is for hot sauce. We found that some people REALLY love the stuff, and would get through a bottle a month easily, and some others would only dabble, and get through a bottle every 1-2 months. That's why we've opted to send a single bottle, and vary the frequency, rather than send several bottles on a quarterly basis and hope for the best. With Saucedrop, we are hoping to gain an insight into how to make subscription e-commerce even better, so this our spicy test bed so to speak. Thanks for the input.
Hey, really like the idea. I was however quite confused by your pricing and it took me a while to work it out. I think adding "/box" after each price would help as it's not clear what 'recurring payment' means. I didn't know if that meant every month or year! But really nice idea and site regardless. Good work!
@jblok2 thanks Jonathon. I've made a few tweaks to simplify the pricing. Hope that clears things up.
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Cool concept! @dnfisher I saw that you used my little icons from The Noun Project for the price table :). I would love to give it a try but I'm in the US right now, so maybe when you go worldwide :).
@juliendeveaux Hey Julien! Yeah - saw your icons and I had to have them! Also - just to clear things up, we are based in New York, and we are shipping anywhere in the continental US for this initial launch period. We are working on rolling out internation shipping soon, but want to iron out any kinks in our UX/fulfillment before we expand outside the US.
I am a chicken when it comes to spicy sauces, but we can all agree that a good sauce can transform a plain item into something amazing. I bet even the Sauce Boss himself @harleyplays could get down with this. Happy to share this with the sauce lovers in my life.
I like this idea so much I made a prototype landing page around a theoretical hot sauce delivery service my co-workers and I dreamt up over lunch.
http://benhalpern.com/hot-sauce/
Hot sauce loving minds think alike or something.
@drwolanin Hey John. No $19.99 buys you a bottle of small batch hot sauce (retail price between $10-12) delivered to your home, and we also include a beautifully printed with the producer's backstory and a recipe, as well as a few other ingredient pairings to best enjoy the sauce. We feel this is good value for something that can really complement your food, and help support small businesses, but also for the sheer convenience of never having to buy emergency hot sauce from Rite-aid. We've all been there :)
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