Launch HN: Boostly (YC S22) – SMS marketing for restaurants
Consider this:<p>No consumer wants these messages. I understand why restaurants need them and why they are profitable, but actually recipients will be irritated (even though they &quot;opted in&quot;).<p>My concern is that these will turn SMS, one of the last (mostly) clean communication channels, into another cesspit like email and the web have become.<p>I&#x27;m not asking what you&#x27;re doing to prevent that because you can&#x27;t build this into a successful company without moving the needle in that direction.<p>I just want you to question why you&#x27;re doing this and whether your business is creating a world you actually want to live in. To me and everyone who isn&#x27;t profiting from it, it&#x27;s pollution of our personal lives.<p>(Unrelated: I started a company years ago with restaurants as customers. They are by far the worst people I&#x27;ve ever had as clients, if you could even sell to them. It&#x27;s basically impossible to build a profitable software business with restaurants as customers -- even &quot;Big Delivery&quot; is unprofitable).