Designing of the website

When we decided to start hungrybangalore.com, we had some idea of what technologies to use…we had been working in this field for some time, but we are both on the technical side of developing web based applications. We didn’t know how to design a website, how to make images.. and last but not the least, when working with a team in the office, you never learn making a big picture. Right from configuring a server, making the entire setup, using photoshop to make images, we learnt everything gradually. Things started getting clear when we decided on our requirements. Here again, we used to have lot of discussions(fights would be a precise word but I better be polite in my words:). What information will go in which page, how it should be shown etc etc. Menu page was the most complicated I feel.We have done maximum hit and trials on that page. We hope it has come out well and its user-friendly. Features like showing the description of the items, pagination of the categories, view the cart etc have been added so that our users get maximum information on the menu page. Please pour in your thoughts and suggestions if you feel its complicated..or how you would want it to make the online ordering process easy.

Its been 4 months that we launched hungrybangalore and when we look at what we started and what we have now.. things surely have changed.. We had only 15 restaurants on the day we launched.. and now we have 120.. there are lot more restaurants to be covered. We didn’t have features like party planning, fruit of the week, search options based on delivery areas, based on the average meal for two.. and a lot of other features… its good to see how the online food ordering portal has evolved from being an interface for only home deliveries, to a one stop shop for food in Bangalore.

Its amazing to get the feedbacks from our users who have got benefitted by our service.. We would love to hear more from u and incorporate changes that you suggest.. i know we have been lagging behind in impelementing a few of your suggestions, but those are the ones that got delayed because of some unavoidable circumstances..we promise to get those features to you very soon.
Hope you enjoy our story of how we have built this.

How it all started!!

The other day I was chatting with a batchmate from IIT and he said..I wish I had not been to IIT, our expectations from ourselves are so high, leave alone other’s expectations. That was really thought provoking. I started thinking how it has been for me.Probably very true, had I not been to IIT, it would have been a different story. My friends and family still say..You can earn well with ur education, have a peaceful life and just enjoi. But that doesn’t suit me I guess:) Infact doesn’t suit both of us.. we are 2 batchmates from IIT Kgp who have started this venture..we always wanted to do something of our own..what, when, how were questions that needed to be answered. We landed in Bangalore in 2003 and started working with an MNC. Things were cool but we felt restless. I kept on hopping jobs and he started looking for options other than jobs..MBA, higher studies ?? We did not want to go to US. 2 yrs passed by like this. There were times when we had to go to the office on weekends or stay back late..and ordering food at those times was a resposibility no one wanted to take because of the pain involved.

We decided to grap the opportunity of this untapped domain. We conducted a survey on the idea and soon there was no doubt that such a website would click in Bangalore. From then on, it has been hungrybangalore on our minds… Niraj and Anurag joined us in the journey and soon we were busy building the application and talking to clients..we would want to make it a one stop shop for anything related to food in Bangalore.. we know therez a lot of scope for improvement and we would want ur help in knowing what u want to see on the website.. new features, ur favourite restaurants..suggestions about anything and everything are most welcome.. we would be glad to implement ur suggestions as much as we can. Wish us luck that we do not lose sight of the purpose of hungrybangalore.com.