PicnicPost app
With summer in full swing, the picnic has temporarily become a popular dinner replacement among New Yorkers looking for coronavirus.
And an enterprising technician is trying to capitalize on the boom.
Meet Sam Collins, a 25-year-old software developer who created his own Doordash, but for picnics. The Native New Yorker said he came up with the concept by spending time with a friend in a park in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, and learned that he could not receive food where he was sitting.
Collins introduced his website, PicnicPost, within days, bought a motorcycle and cooler, and began delivering food from Upper West Side restaurants to Central Park hikers in mid-May.
Upon the word, he distributed lots of flyers in the park and also paid for an ad campaign on Instagram.
“The summer 2020 place to eat is here: the park,” Collins said as he made deliveries last weekend.
Of course, Collins is the first to admit that he is not yet making money or making venture capital calls. Your startup is basically a one-man show. On a very smart day, it brings about 10 orders, he says, which earns you between $70 and $80. For now, she lives with her parents in the East Village and studies for the LSAT.
Sam Collins delivers food to Tiluna Nocito in Central Park.
PicnicPost lately offers delivery of 17 Manhattan restaurants, adding Just Salad, Angaar Classic Indian Cuisine and Rosa Mexicano. Customers use theirs to place orders and then focus on the location of their phones so Collins can locate you. The minimum delivery payment is $5 with an additional 20% in addition to the order value, he said.
On Sunday, Tiluna Nocito wrote in Central Park and ordered PicnicPost sushi, which she discovered on Instagram.
“It’s harder overall,” the 24-year-old artist said. “Let other people get food in a convenient way instead of going elsewhere.”
Before the coronavirus arrived, Collins was busy running an app that would help travelers in Italy plot routes. With this on hold, he had time to focus on PicnicPost and expand his professional experience. He is also performing independent progression paintings to make ends meet.
One of the benefits of making deliveries, he says, is to gather other people after being locked up for months.
“It’s not so much the money I make, it’s the joy of starting a business,” Collins said. “Especially after being quarantined for so long, I’m so eager to see other people and communicate with other people, it’s very refreshing.”
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