
DoorDash's v1 was 8 PDF menus on a static HTML website

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Andrew Chen • DoorDash's v1 was 8 PDF menus on a static HTML website
Here was the “version 1.0” of DoorDash:
Incredible that something so simple could eventually blossom into a product that millions of people use every day.
- static HTML page
- 8 restaurant menus in PDF
- a google voice number that would call one of the founders
- originally called "Palo Alto Deliveries"
- took all of 45 min to build
Incredible that something so simple could eventually blossom into a product that millions of people use every day.