We do not want to live online

First post from our new startup! Can't show it to you yet (since we haven't finished building it..), but we'll be unfolding it here over the next few weeks. For now, we're going to tell you how it all happened.

It's hard to quantify how many ideas we've had and how many times we've started a project and written a bunch of code, only to realize that we had a better idea and should work on that idea instead. I think we've had around 11 serious concepts, but GrubWithUs was the lone survivor. Why?

We do not want to live online.

Sure, you can have a good time on Facebook by stalking your thousands of 'friends' everyday or peruse Twitter to find out when your favorite celebrities are having more fun than you are, but we'd rather have some physical interaction. Heck, I'm so off the online life bandwagon that I just created a Facebook account last week and that was because I wanted to reserve my vanity url. Of course, every url I really wanted was taken because everyone was sitting alone on a Friday night reserving their url!!

I may sound like an old timer and not 'with the times', but is it too much to ask to physically meet new people these days? Can we get away from the Super Poke for a few hours and enjoy a great meal at a real friend's house? Maybe many people out there enjoy human - computer - human interaction, but GrubWithUs is here to take out the middle man!

We're building this site to fill a need of ours and who knows if it'll catch on, but here's to hope that we're not just a society of zombies and vampiers and mobsters and that we actually like talking to real people!