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What is BlockFood?

From https://whitepaper.blockfood.io/abstract (https://whitepaper.blockfood.io/abstract)


Motivations and philosophy

You can see the reasons behind the project here: https://medium.com/blockfood/announcing-blockfood-d7c3b3c67666 (https://medium.com/blockfood/announcing-blockfood-d7c3b3c67666)

https://medium.com/blockfood/announcing-blockfood-d7c3b3c67666 (https://medium.com/blockfood/announcing-blockfood-d7c3b3c67666)

Team

The team behind the BlockFood project is made of men and women from different horizons and nationalities. They all have proven track records in software development.

Most of the team is located in France and its team members know each other personally.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BlockFood/blockfood-io/master/blockfood.io/images/team/all.jpg

Founder & CEO


Conrad Lelubre is the creator of the BlockFood project and the Open Sharing Economy foundation. His goal is to coordinate the project's overall development and communication, develop partnerships, handle administrative tasks, coordinate marketing, legal, human resources.

Software Engineer from the Grenoble Institute of Technology, Conrad has worked for 8 years in the software industry as Scrum Master, Technical Leader and Architect. Passionate about his work, he is always looking for new opportunities on how to have a better impact on the world. He also loves bicycles and cats.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conradlelubre/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/conradlelubre/)


Project manager


Pauline Sicoit is the project manager. She will handle the project's communication, prioritization and synchronization with the development team.

Multi-talented, half ambidextrous 24 year-old woman from Grenoble, Pauline works as a project manager with the following motto: if there is no solution, there is no issue. Eternal dreamer and tireless traveller, she plans to put her feet on each country to inspire her and improve herself continuously. She is very excited by the big challenge BlockFood represents and looks forward to have the best impact possible on the economy to make it fairer.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauline-sicoit-83ab57109/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauline-sicoit-83ab57109/)


CEO advisor

Julien Leroy is the CEO advisor. His mission is to help BlockFood's management with strategic decisions, legal and administrative aspects, finance and partnerships.


Julien has ten years of experience behind him in a number of different companies and in various domains. His acute vision of how a company works with its context is of great help when it comes to make important decisions.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leroyjulien/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/leroyjulien/)


Designer


Dewan Suh is BlockFood's designer. His mission is to create a visual identity for the BlockFood brand across all visual items.

Dewan is a self-taught Graphic designer since the advent of personal computers. Making illustrations for the medical world, sprites for games, assets for applications, animations for shows, 3D for architecture. He is now eager to serve a project with a social equity purpose.


Development team


David Twigger is the lead developer of the BlockFood project. He will coordinate the development of the platform and lead technical decisions surrounding the project.

David is currently a freelance developer between Grenoble and Lyon. He has worked in many different companies and types of structures before finally deciding, like Hans, to try flying solo (he also has a terrible sense of humor). He loves all things IT, from programming microchips to developing full blown applications.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-twigger-b57856120/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-twigger-b57856120/)


Romain Destenay is a data scientist. His goal is to take advantage of BlockFood's data in order to provide meaningful services to platform's actors.

Big Data Engineer from the Grenoble Institute of Technology, Romain has worked as a computer vision researcher in South-Korea and recently in a start-up working on power consumption forecasts for renewable energy producers. He is also deeply invested in the Effective Altruism movement and wishes to have the maximum positive impact with his time and money.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romaindestenay/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/romaindestenay/)


Nazanin Ahmadi is an experienced full stack developer. She will bring her UX and coding skills to BlockFood's team.

Nazanin is a skilled full stack developer, with a passion for great user experiences and good-looking applications. She loves learning new things, traveling the world (Italy especially), being amazed at what humans are capable of and impress other humans with what she is able to do.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nazanin-a-torshizi-a8616aa5/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nazanin-a-torshizi-a8616aa5/)


Mokhtar Mial is a full stack developer.

Mokhtar is a young but talented full stack developer. With an already deep knowledge of full stack development despite his lack of experience, he loves growing through challenges such as BlockFood. He is currently studying for his Master in Computer Science. Blockchain technology sparked his interest in 2015 and he has been part of the community since then.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mokhtarmial/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mokhtarmial/)

You can retrieve those information here:
https://whitepaper.blockfood.io/team (https://whitepaper.blockfood.io/team) and https://blockfood.io/#team (https://blockfood.io/#team)

BitcoinTalk bounty campaign

Visit our Bounty Campaign thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2645612

Want to contact us?

Feel free to reach us at contact@blockfood.io

Want to get involved?

Join our community on Github (https://github.com/BlockFood), Medium (https://medium.com/blockfood), Twitter (https://twitter.com/BlockFood) and Telegram (https://t.me/blockfood).

Subscribe to our newsletter https://blockfood.io/#subscribe (https://blockfood.io/#subscribe)

the project is interesting enough to follow, how the work is done. is there any bounty for this project, it seems still lonely .....

Hi there!

We strongly believe in the active participation of the community and hope to reward it accordingly.
We're working on a whole campaign for the final token sale, where we are going to dedicate up to 5% of the final BlockFoodToken supply.
And we're also working on a smaller campaign for the pre-sale to try to reach more potential participants.

We're going to start with a Twitter and a BitcoinTalk signature campaign.

Stay tuned for more news on this and on the project and thanks for your feedback  :)

We just opened our bounty campaign thread, here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2645612

Join us on the BlockFood adventure! Help us reach our pre-sale goal! <3

Hello Dev! How about airdrop? and what about bounty programm? Maybe interested to participate in bounty.

Hi!

We are not planning to airdrop tokens. We prefer using a sponsorship mechanism that will allow to create an incentive to invite other persons onto the platform. This mechanism will be put in place before the global launch, which is planned for Q4 2019 (it may be before depending on the beta-test program).

For the bounty thread, I just posted it :) Check it out (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2645612)

Looks great! Good luck with your project and future endeavors :)

certainly interesting information about the team you have shown,
still would be nice to add to the photos and links to social networks.
in which countries will your idea work?

Thanks for your feedback. We're going to add links to the LinkedIn profiles for all our team members.

The goal of the platform is to be present wherever the laws authorize our activity. We don't have a specific list yet. Our (future) legal team will be responsible for making sure our platform is authorized where it is accessible.

Thanks! :)

Hello,
I took a look around, your project has good spirit.
Do you plan to have an escrow, maybe among recommanded ones from Bitcointalk?

Thanks for your kind words :)

We are not planning to have an escrow as we don't want to have a third-party having control over the Open Sharing Economy foundation.
We are currently reaching the AMF (French equivalent of the SEC) to be as transparent as possible, and as a French association, we will have to publish our accounts publicly.
Another point not stated before is that the BlockFoodTokens allocated for the initial team will be vested for one year.

We just added the linkedin profiles to the https://blockfood.io/#team page.
Going to enhance the main post with those information soon :)

The idea looks great ! Interesting project to follow, ethical and fair with a good spirit :) Good luck !

Thanks a lot!

We updated the main post with all the information about the team, including LinkedIn links :)

That's a great news Dev!!  ;)

I see that it takes a lot of time to reach the product, so i will look for it to make more decicions for myself))

Thanks for the advice ;)

Yes indeed, in our current roadmap we expect to ship the final product in Q3 2019, with a first version on the test net available in Q3 2018.
But as we have stated in our white paper, this schedule will depend on the amount raised. The more people believe in us, the more we get funding, the faster we will go. It's as simple as that (and yes, we know from experience, adding 10 times the amount of developer can never mean going 10 times faster  ;)).

Hi there,

We are still looking for a video maker to help us introduce the platform. This is part of the bounty campaign.

Details are available here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2645612

Help us find him or her :)

Awesome, thanks!  :)

We are getting ready for the pre-sale which starts on Monday!

Review our smart contract here: https://github.com/BlockFood/smart-contract-pre-sale
(Don't forget to checkout the test folder :) )

We're getting waves of enthusiasm from complete strangers over the internet for the BlockFood project and it's really heartwarming.

Hope we can raise the tide!

Wondering whats makes it really different and unique. Would someone please provide some key attributes of this project.  How can the prices be moderated with community participation.

Hello keepfighting,

Thank you for your comment. Here are some explanations I hope will satisfy you:

The prices customers will end up paying will be set by the service providers themselves, without moderation:
- Restaurants decide the exact price for their menu items either in FIAT or in BFT
- Couriers decide their delivery pick-up price and their price per kilometer traveled
- Couriers can also join a cooperative which will set the price as group
- Supply and demand will regulate the market

The BlockFood project is a game changer for the food delivery industry.
Its uniqueness comes from the core characteristics of the project:
- Decentralized: decentralization of trust using the Ethereum blockchain
- Fair: maximize the revenue for the service providers (restaurants and couriers), being a non-profit project
- Open: open source, open API for third-party developers, open governance where BFT holders can steer the wheel

If you look at our competition, none of them have those characteristics.
They all are profit-driven corporations whose only goal is to maximize their profit.
That is not our case.

We want to create a platform that is a truly mutually beneficial for all actors.

Interesting  ;) !

Where do you want to launch your project first and how are you going to solicit restaurants and coursier to join you ? 

Hello GauElCapitan,

Thanks for you feedback!

The selection of the first location for our beta program will be done through a voting mechanism where BlockFoodToken holders will be able to choose a location.
We will then examine the results and select the perfect fit for our first location.

The recruitment of restaurants is delegated to BlockFood Ambassadors, whom will canvass their local restaurants and introduce them to the platform.
In exchange for this action, BlockFood Ambassadors are rewarded through a fixed commission set on the transactions of the restaurant.
Restaurant's incentives to join the platform are the low commission rate which maximizes their revenue, in addition to the tools available for their marketing.

Couriers will also be able to reap more benefits from their work than current platforms.
They can work as individuals or join a cooperative which will ensure them more leverage.
After discussing with some currently active couriers, their message is simple:

                    "We're waiting for you"

do you guys have any mvp or github link for your project? looks interesting but cant get my head around as to how it will pan out? Any explanatory video with examples?

Hello rajatjain,

We are planning to start working on the actual solution this month, but we don't have an MVP yet.
Our Github repository hosts currently the source code of:
- our currently deployed pre-sale smart contract
- the blockfood.io website
- the private API we're using for the pre-sale
- a working draft for the token sale
- and some smaller projects

It is available here https://github.com/BlockFood

We don't have an explanatory video either yet, but we're working on it.

Thanks for your interest :)

Wont your plan be expensive. If the delivery guys choose their own costs and we all know restaurants have their own costs, then it will be expensive then the traditional food delivery methods with a fixed delivery costs. Once you work on the solution, please try to explain as to how it will disrupt the food delivery business since i as a consumer is pretty happy with the model that is going on!

The issues with the current model is that the intermediary takes a fixed commission of around 20-30% on each transaction.
This has huge consequences for the revenue of the service providers: the restaurants and the couriers.
While as a consumer you might be happy with the current way this economy is done,
we think we should emphasize the actual creators of value in this ecosystem: the restaurants and the couriers.

We don't believe prices would be more expensive than current platforms. Here is why:

• The lower commission rate will allow more freedom in the price set by the service providers. If by setting the price at 20 $ on BlockFood they get the same revenue as setting the price at 27$ on other platform (which corresponds to a scenario where we take a 5% commission, which is our maximum projection and our competitor 30% commission), they have some room to make it more attractive on BlockFood and still get a higher revenue.
  
  
• Secondly, when you buy a burger in your favorite restaurant, the price you pay has not been regulated by anyone. The actual price of a burger is the reflection of supply and demand, with a lot of other variables. If you live in a neighborhood where every one is ready to pay 100$ for a burger, then it's the right price for the burger.
  But guess what, a 100$ burger would not sell.
  That's how the system work in real life and it is how it's going to work on the BlockFood platform.
  
  
• The remuneration of the couriers is an important point as well.
  Should they earn the same revenue whether it's raining, freezing or sunny and whether it's 1km, 5km or 25km that they have to travel?
  This is not ours to decide.
  The couriers will have the freedom to set their own rules and exactly as the price of a burger has to meet both ends of the deal, prices will regulate themselves.

And finally, as a consumer you will have the opportunity to choose a platform that is much fairer to your service providers for a similar price.
Why wouldn't you choose BlockFood then?  :)

You have my attention now! I do know that restaurants have to pay 20 to 30 percent on every bill generated on their platform and they take part in the deliveries as well and pay a fixed amount to the courier for a particular delivery irrespective of the weather condition they might have to come in. What my major concern is, that model created is to ensure that the firm stays in profits and a part of the profits is used for giving discounts to the customers in terms of cashbacks or direct bill value deduction and even maintaining their customer service 24/7.
 If you manage to ensure higher profits to the restaurant owners, how will blockfood make money?

 The token will be one point on how blockfood will be valuable but how the employees of blockfood will be paid (fiat or blockfood tokens)?

 And secondly will there be any use of blockfood tokens on the platform?

I'm glad we can reach some interesting points in our discussion. Thanks for this :)

BlockFood will have other sources of revenue:

• External advertisement on the platform
• Paid options for restaurants, such as product advertising, or mailing to customers.
• Donations to the OSE foundation

You have to understand something important about us. We don't care about profit.
We care about creating a platform that is self-sufficient and that belongs to the people. Being profitable is a mean to achieve that.
All profits will be injected into the project itself, instead of being redistributed as dividends. That's our philosophy. And that's how you can lower the commission rate while still being profitable: efficiency and frugality.

It's not about struggling, it's about creating a virtuous cycle. We will have at our disposal a certain amount of BlockFoodToken dedicated to the problematic your describe (~10% of total supply): discounts, customer service, sponsorship program, ... But also the revenue of BlockFood has to cover all cost, development, hosting, strategy, legal, growth, marketing, ... That's all of this that will be reflected into the dynamic commission rate.

During the first years of the project, most of the cost will be actually covered by the result of the token sale. We need to gain momentum before being able to rely completely on revenue sources. This is all described in our "Business model" section of our white paper: https://whitepaper.blockfood.io/business-model

We are also way more agile and efficient that our competitors, just as every startup is on some level. We don't have the same costs as them.

This economic model allows both higher revenues for service providers and a sane self-sufficient platform .
We believe it is the best future for the sharing economy.


We have to make a distinction between BlockFood employees and service providers on the platform.
BlockFood employees (understand R&D team, marketing team, etc...) will be paid in a way that is legal where we work (probably FIAT).
Service providers (couriers and restaurants) will actually have the capability to choose whether they want to keep their payment in BFT (because all payments are done using BFT on the platform) or automatically exchange them for FIAT, with different possibilities (once a day, once a week, after reaching a certain amount, etc...).


The BlockFoodToken has three main functions on the platform:
- it fuels the smart contracts used to track the orders placed by customers.
- it is the currency used on the platform.
- they are used to vote for new features, strategic decisions and restaurant selection.

You are planning to raise 75 mil for something which is good in concept form but you don't have a product for it at the moment. I am unsure how will you justify such heavy funding when a new team can deliver similar in extremely less amount than 54000 ether.

I don't see a telegram group as well for blockfood so i guess i will have to look out for blockfood once it hits an exchange in april hopefully and some more info drops in. Good luck guys for your project!

We can see now how that having a cap set in Ether can backfire during price surge.
Our initial funding max cap was of about 24 million $ and the min cap was 500 k$.

The difference between our min cap and our max cap is certainly important, but to us, if the community believes in us, they should be able to empower us accordingly.
Why should we set a hard cap that would severely restrain investment?

It's not only about R&D, we have lots of other costs to cover in order to properly launch and maintain the platform.
More funds leads to more means which leads to better chances of success.

Nonetheless, your remark is completely valid. For this reason and to match the current value of Ether and take into account its current price, we will change the maximum and minimum caps accordingly.

In regard of the Telegram group, we're working on it.

Thanks for your feedback Rajat :)

Hey guys,

We will be present at DIGIT'ALPS in Grenoble on February 14th 2018:

http://iae-spider.upmf-grenoble.fr/digitalps/index.php/blockchain/

Come and see us if you're around!  :)

Hello BitcoinTalk,

Our pre-sale is getting some traction!

We did an interview with Anthony Scarpulla from Cryptocurrency Investment group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/CCInvestingCommunity) on Facebook three days ago, it's going to air very soon! We're looking forward to it.

We launched a referral program to leverage network effect on the pre-sale participation as well, check out our article about it: https://medium.com/blockfood/blockfood-pre-sale-referral-program-93e9b87e94c8

Our community is getting bigger every day, join us on Telegram and Twitter!

The BlockFood project is interesting enough to follow, how the work is done.Where do you want to launch your project first and how are you going to solicit restaurants and coursier to join you?

Hey Storfox,

I'm glad to be able to answer these questions to you:
- The selection of the first location will be done through a vote made by the BlockFoodToken holders. They will be able to vote in a list of carefully selected cities, where we could test our platform the best way possible.
- The solicitation of restaurants are made through independent users, the BlockFood Ambassador.
- Couriers are just in love with what we do, convincing them to use the platform is definitely not an issue. We met a lot of them and every one says the same thing; "we're waiting for you"

Looking forward for the interview !

do you have facebook that can as a means of my information ?

reserve translation Vietnamese if Dev need PM me. I love your project - this interesting project with the best team and great road map. Joined hope success!

Hey guys,

We have a contest for all of you BlockFood members!

Make a video explainer about BlockFood, emphasis on what BlockFood does, presale and why one should buy BlockFood.
Video should be on youtube and should be atleast 5 minute long.

Three winners will be chosen next weekend (Sunday) with first winner getting 5000 BlockFoodTokens, second 3000 and the third one 2000 tokens!

Hurry up! PM me for any doubts!

We also have another giveaway on Telegram!

Add 10 or more members to the community for a chance to win 1000 BlockFoodTokens! Once you add 10 members, PM one of our admin with the usernames of the members and you will be allocated a unique number! Draw will be conducted on next Sunday! Do not miss this chance! Hurry up!

We did an interview with Anthony Scarpulla of Cryptocurrency investing group on Facebook

If you want to see us explain the motivations behind the BlockFood project, you can find it here:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1138CquySlo

Dear community,

Unfortunately, our initial plan is now officially delayed. Indeed we were not able to complete the pre-sale due to insufficient funds.
We're not dead! We have a contingency plan and we are going to communicate about it very soon.

Some full transparency to come in our blog about what happened  :)

Very sorry. Very nice project. In which places, cities or countries do you want to integrate your project? If there is a restart and everything will go well.
Thank you

Hello Taibas!

Thank you for your support and your interest! We still have very high hopes for what's coming, the feedback from each crowd we face is too enthusiastic to let this go!
We want to start where regulation is the easiest, and we haven't decided yet. We will select 5 or 10 cities and allow token holders to vote for their favorite one. That's how we will start our beta program and go from there to expand to other cities.

Hello everyone,

Here is a blog post about our pre-sale and its non-completion:

https://medium.com/blockfood/blockfood-false-start-lets-rewind-5aee76b4d04


Let's keep the ball rolling!  :D

I am interested and like your project because your project is really interesting and have brilliant ideas, I hope your project is a great success.

Thank you rendiuno, this is the kind of feedback we love.  :D

Good evening. You have a great idea, and it really separates you from the crowd. Maybe you're right, and for marketing there was little time left, and the crypto market was during the recession. I hope that the restart will bring you and we will succeed. And I hope that correcting the shortcomings, it will not take you much time. And we will soon see you on the marketing platform.

Hello Gogok!

Thank you very much! We will definitely come back with a better offer very soon. We're not going to repeat the mistake from the past though, we'll take some time to make everything right this time ;) Wait and see!

Hello community,

It has been a while!

But as we said, we're not dead and we're moving forward with our development strategy.

Here is a glimpse of the future demonstration version of BlockFood :
       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdksaI5fpBc

Enjoy  :)