Simmer
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Simmer was a food-tech startup founded in 2019 by Richard Wu and Vaibhav Verma, graduates of Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch. It built an app for dish-level reviews: instead of choosing a restaurant on a delivery app and hoping for the best dish, users picked the dish on Simmer, which aggregated and analyzed reviews from blogs, social media, and newspapers with a custom sentiment analyzer, and earned affiliate revenue on the resulting delivery orders.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
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- Company founded and YC batch
Richard Wu and Vaibhav Verma found Simmer and launch it publicly as part of Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch, building a dish-review database powered by sentiment analysis of online reviews.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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