Uber Eats
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A food delivery platform operated by Uber that connects users with local restaurants and delivery drivers.
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Instinct
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AI food ordering assistant
Uber Eats requires clicking through menus; the creator imagines Instinct letting you just say 'my usual' and done.
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Uber Eats requires clicking through menus; the creator imagines Instinct letting you just say 'my usual' and done.
"I use Uber Eats a lot. Like I order from Uber Eats all the time. It's kind of a pain in the ass to click through the thing. I can imagine a lot better experience on a snappy WhatsApp connection with Instinct or something saying, 'Hey, I ..."
Contrasted with a hypothetical frictionless Instinct-mediated ordering experience
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“I use Uber Eats a lot. Like I order from Uber Eats all the time. It's kind of a pain in the ass to click through the thing. I can imagine a lot better experience on a snappy WhatsApp connection with Instinct or something saying, 'Hey, I want my usual from this restaurant.' And that's it.”
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- Uses it for
- Ordering food delivery from restaurants
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- Contrasted with a hypothetical frictionless Instinct-mediated ordering experience
“Here in the US we work with Uber Eats and DoorDash.”
“It started as sit-down restaurant, it turned into drive-thru, and now it's Uber Eats. It was movies, and then it's YouTube, and now it's YouTube Shorts. It just keeps going.”
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- Compared as a further step of convenience beyond drive-thru restaurants
“Zipline announced that they are scaling to provide Uber Eats with more than 1 million autonomous deliveries per day.”
“Of course, I did Uber Eats, so I'm very familiar with this part of things, but nowhere close to the atoms that are necessary to do what I just described.”
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“It costs 75 cents instead of like the $12 per drop that it costs like an Uber Eats or DoorDash today.”
“We got Uber Eats up in 2015. We saw the first dark kitchens — it was like late 15, early 16. We saw pictures of commercial kitchens in Melbourne that were not restaurants that were on Uber Eats.”
“With Uber Eats, you order something and your salad doesn't arrive — automatically you'll get the refund based on an agent that will do it.”
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- Illustrative example of a bounded action agent handling automatic refunds
“Because everything is at the fingertips — Uber Eats, our children will complain the Uber Eats driver messed up the delivery. They have no resilience for things going wrong.”
“Restaurants have agencies who are managing their DoorDash and Uber Eats ads and they have to report to the client on how that's performing.”
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- Restaurant advertising platform managed by agencies
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- Example of agency layer in restaurant industry
“There's an iPad in the kitchen and that's logged in to Uber Eats, Door Dash, Instacart, Amazon.”
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- Good for
- Food delivery while staying at someone's house
“They play video games all day long, their mom does their laundry and they order Uber Eats”
“You get to have dinner delivered to your house every single day. You've got Uber Eats”
“Just Uber Eats”
“You start scouring Uber Eats for fresh ginger shots and feel better bagels that you can send them.”
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“Most of us can't get a single Uber Eats delivery to our house for that these days.”
"We got to get off DoorDash, Uber Eats. That's a habit that's just destroying us right now."
"The average American household spent $3,933 on food away from home in 2023. Those numbers are old — I would guess it is double that now. That's an emergency fund for most people and we spend it on Uber Eats."
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