Watch our new Product Video
Here is our latest product video! Feel free to leave a comment!
read morePrototype “Launch”
This week has been very positive! We are currently planning an a-la-carte dinner charity event with a culinary school. It’s still in the very early planning stages but it is shaping up to be awesome. This would be the perfect opportunity to let people know about our product and showcase our prototype. The event will be held on early May at Bavaro, Punta Cana which is one of the Caribbean’s most prominent tourist spots with hundreds of the most luxurious hotels and restaurants as well as the home of several prominent restaurant owners,...
read moreHard at work!
We’ve been hard at work! Yes, our day jobs and Shifting Technologies. Folks, let me tell you… this isn’t easy! -_- but we couldn’t be happier and more excited! On January 23rd we launched our new website: http://www.smartmenuplus.com where we posted a video presenting our product. So far we’ve had 128 page views for the website, which is an average of more than 10 daily visits and our video has been played more than 160 times… not too shabby. Early this week we also had a meeting where we took several important decisions for...
read moreJournal entry #11
Today was a very successful day. We finished our new product video which is live now! Our development tablets just arrived, so we will start implementing our mockups on the next couple of days. Our updated our TechStars application with respect to all progress that we have accomplished in the last days. We have to say, that after several weeks of work, we are very satisfied with what we have accomplished, nevertheless we will keep working as hard as ever. This is race is just...
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General Development: Our cartoon artist just delivered the remaining assets to us, so that means we will start preparing the new product video immediately. Furthermore we finished working on our website. Soon we will be ready to start developing SmartMenu+’s custom app.
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Product Development: The CAD design is ready. We are now in talk with several manufacturers in the Dominican Republic to see how much it will cost to build two cases for our development units. Below you can see a glimpse of what we are cooking .
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Brand development: We have recorded all audio and videos that we are planning to use on the video. We received later in the day images of cartoons and started advancing with this while the rest is completed. General development: On January 13th we sent an email to several techstars members to receive feedback. Today, Jan 18th, we received an answer from Mr. Cohen. He suggested that we needed to validate our idea. We talked to Garlic’s restaurant owner to propose a try & buy.
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Brand Development: We finished writing the script for the video. We decided to contact a cartoon artist in order to advance as quickly as possible. We have done great progress with the credit card reader tablet cover. CAD design is almost complete. We decided to have the reader on top to for easy swapping. Product development: Added some extra features to the “feature list”.
read moreJournal entry #6
Brand development: www.smarttmenuplus.com is still in development. We’ve decided to make the comments a central part of the website encouraging people to provide feedback on features they would like to see. Social Media Strategy: As soon as the website is completed we will start a aggressive social media campaign in order to receive more feedback from customer and potential clients. Product Development: We decided to create a 2 – 3 minute video to better present the SmartMenu+ idea. We decided to keep it simple: Flash animation with...
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Product Development: We had a meeting where we discussed product features. We created a list of all possible features in all the modules. To each feature we added a description, priority, etc. We also added a new module: Hostess Module. On this module the Hostess will be able to manage the tables, layout, payment status, tablet assignment, etc. We also, reached out to CAD designers in order to get a sketch of the tablet cover with a credit card reader. This way we expect to receive an answer early on Monday.
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