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My girlfriend and I have been thinking about launching a cupcake business for bitcoin. She's been doing cakes,cupcakes, cookies for about 4 years now, until the company she worked for shut down. Just seeing if there would be any interest in this. Average price per cupcake is around $2.65 each, please post any interest, if i see enough, ill help her build a domain and accept btc as a payment option.


Thank you

so after a "pizza for bitcoin" now cupcakes for bitcoin, very interesting.  ::)
whether taking orders between countries?

Depending on where you're from and how much will be the postage charges it could work, but it would probably be only successful locally or within the country, I don't think someone would order cupcakes internationally (some might) but you can give it a shot right from here without opening a site first and see how it goes.

Set up a temporary shop in a thread, post pictures, contents, price etc, arrange an escrow(very important) and start taking orders, if it works to a satisfactory level, go ahead and make a site for it and start the business. When you open the site you can ask the people who tasted the cupcakes to write a review about them. Best of luck.

I like cupcakes, but here are my concerns.  First I would only want cupcakes of the highest quality, otherwise I might as well buy them at the local store.  Second I am concerned that they will stay good from shipping.  My house only has gorillas to deliver packages, and they always destroy things.  It is also hot here sometimes, so how would the cupcakes still be fresh if they are on my door step for 4 hours in 90 degree weather?

I wish you the best of luck.  I am not trying to be a pain, but these are the things that I would think about if I bought cupcakes from you.

I wouldn't pay $2.65 for a cupcake if it jumped out of the box and sucked my dick.

I will be creating everything to test this out. Had some interest last night in the idea. Will keep everyone updated

That's simply an amazing idea, the problem is shipping cupcakes in good condition... If it was on my country, I'd definitely buy way more cupcakes :D

I really love the idea, we need more people like your wife. That is the best way to incorporate the BTC to the daily life and to local business.  ;D

I'm thinking to start a local food business for bitcoin too, but in my country the people don't have the bitcoin culture, will be hard at the start.

Thanks, I know some people will not like the idea, But, ya never know until you try it. Right now, i'm creating a simple page with a few photos of what she makes and see if those sell any.

The NEXT IDEA - If there are interest in this, I have another idea that may get some sales.

The idea:
Make a BITCOIN - Clam themed cupcake. Inside (inside the wrapper) will be a bitcoin address with private key with x amount of coins, it may be 0.001 or 1.0 who knows. I think that may be a decent selling idea aswell.

IF sales are a success, then we could maybe think about marketing the wrappers to bitcoin companies. As in their logo and domain on the box/cartoon etc for x amount of bitcoin per batch. Hell i dunno, my mind races when thinking about ideas,lol

Oh my fucking god this post made my day. +1

the big problem is to deliver it would be better to open a shop and acept bitcoin as payment as others.... soo maybe better result then deliver and others stuffs i would buy a cup but im pretty sure you arent on Brazil

Definitely count me in, but where are you shipping from and to? Cupcakes can't be days old when they arrive unfortunately....

Don;t rely just on bitcoins for your business, operate it as a normal business, bitcoin is just a perk.

I know one business that is Bitcoin-only, and they are doing fairly well. But they have a physical shop so it's quite a different story :)

well the new option to buy cupcakes would be a sucess for sure ,and with lucky you can send a lot in your town

Is very risk pay with BTC for cupcakes after of read the well known history : Bitcoin Pizza Day.I think that I prefer pay with USD... ;D

Is it those once that is fancy pancy, with glitter on the top?
I think there is interest, but shipping is always an issue. How to get them to custommer for a resonable price and without being crushed.

I'm totally supportive of any new business accepting bitcoin, especially if it takes the risk of accepting bitcoin exclusively.

If the cupcakes are good, and the prices reasonable, count me in.

I will love to buy some but i wonder will it be worth it with all the shipping to india. And even if i will get the cup cakes or cake smash :/

i like your idea cupcakes for bitcoin but the problem is you do not can send every cupcakes to other country because the shipping costs more bigger than the price of cupcakes except you accept free delivery order for every country but it will be actually make you loss

Shipping charges are always paid by the customers.Shipping charges are not a big deal.It will take only 7$ to deliver it 4000 Km's away.
The problem is not shipping charges but there freshness! Half of the flavours will be gone if it is going to travel for 4000Km :o

You need to ship with tracking... else will shady custommers just say they never got their cup cakes and ask for a refund. And then will you not be able to ship for 7$.

I would have interest in the idea but I worry about the shipping time and costs.  In the United States the fastest and only cost effective means if priority and that is 2-4 days if I remember correctly.  I guess the cupcake would be fine after an average of three days but I would imagine it would be quite a bit less fresh.  :-\

The way this place has been lately, I can't believe this thread is over a week old and no one has asked for a cupcake vouch yet.

This seems like a nice idea, and almost everyone loves cupcakes. How will deliveries be handled though? I've never encountered a cupcake delivery service.

you can setup a wordpress site pretty easy and then install WooCommerce to setup your ecommerce shop. The whole thing really would take you a weekend to put it together. Once it is up and running you can install a Bitcoin payment gateway plugin so you can exclusively accept Bitcoin. Once that is up and running get WooView which is a WooCommerce iPhone App (http://www.wooviewapp.com) so you can monitor and track your sales! If you need any help just PM and I can help point you in the right direction.

Looks like this idea will not be happening then. Such a shame..

What if my cupcakes lose it freshness during delivery?
More importantly, do you ship worldwide if you plan to do this business? :)

I think that ideas like this are exactly what bitcoin needs. Ideas like this will show masses that bitcoin isn't just for buying armes and drugs on illegal markets, but bitcoin is here for normal, regular folks.

I wish you luck and I hope you will manage to get your bitcoin business going!

I`d buy 1 cupcake for 0.01 BTC but if  1BTC gets to 10,000,000$ in a few years , then I will be really mad at myself :D

Besides if you do international shipping what is the guarantee that the cake doesnt rot before it gets to me, as it needs about 3-4 days to get shipped isnt it?

what price you sell cupcake?
if the price is cheap may be many who will order  :D

Definitely, but better setup a shop in europe somewhere, and ship for the entire EU zone.

You may have to pay VAT too so you need to open some business / store. But dont put too much preservaties in the cupcakes, and please ship it in the entire EU zone, thanks!

I like what you are doing, but you need to do this in a public place and advertise how you accept payment.  You need to have people on standby so they can assist customers on making payments and setting up BTC accounts/wallets.  You need to be able to educate people on how to use BTC in order for them to be able to make payments to you.  Just be prepared to take a small loss or be slow until you get the word out.  Good luck with this.

Yes why not I would love to see a cupcake business for BTC.

But just control if it legal to accept BTC payment in your coutnry ;)

If so I want 20 cupcakes :D

Where would you be shipping it off to?

Because I do like my cupcakes fresh, and what would make your girlfriends better than the local ones I can get?

Yes I like fresh too. That would be nice.

I really support for this I hope you will succeed :D

I'm gonna need some convincing as well as to what makes her cupcakes so special?

Plus, I think I can get cupcakes cheaper than that at a store down the street

Cupcakes for bitcoins is a very good idea but I doubt it will internationally due to shipping issues. I think it will only work locally and maybe stand a physical store on your place then accept bitcoins as payment.

Good luck to your upcoming cupcake business.

I would probably buy this, but $2.65 each cupcake? you must be have the minimum order.
And how about the shipping, you should have a good packaging for it.

Sounds like a nice idea

I suggest you start locally and build a business from there out.

You know that seafood always packs their fish with ices to keep it fresh ::)
Nah, im just kidding :P
I think, this cupcake business won't be very good here because they need to do something to keep the freshness of the cupcake
And tell me again, where to get $7 shipping? as far as i know shipping costs more than that, so yeah i'd rather buy cupcake at my local bakery ::)
This whole cupcake is great idea but it just doesn't work :P

Of course, there would be interest (locally since you would sell Cupcakes), but consider accepting also other types of payment, becouse you will not get many Bitcoin payments yet.

Where are you guys? USA? If you are, then damn. I want some BitCakes. (Get it? BITcoin cupCAKES?! No? no? well, nvm.)

The shipping would probably be too much for me, and by the time they arrive through non-express shipping, it'll be multiple weeks, and the couriers might eat my cakes :(

If you're somewhere else, PM me and i might be near you guys.

I want to buy it if the cupcake has an eatable Bitcoin logo on it ;D
BTW, why do you just sell the cupcakes? You mentioned that your girlfriend can also make cakes & cookies, is there something special with Cupcake? :D

its a wonderfull time,yes because you and your girl have a same passion,it was on bitcoin. and really nice idea when you will open cupcakes store accept bitcoin,that mean you contribute to bitcoin,help bitcoin touch  small industries,small thing and small food. and i wish i could do same thing as you do,i'm also think about fast food for bitcoin,not just cupcakes,but other sweet foods.

Good idea,and glad to see bitcoin used for small shop, and i hope that cupcakes will popular and help bitcoin advertise.

Would you be willing to give free delivery? Also, I can't take gluten, so do you offer gluten free cupcakes?

Is it possible to buy in bulk, for a bigger discount?

OP hasn't posted in almost 2 months and only has 6 posts total.  Will you sig campaign morons let this thread fucking die already?   You aren't going to get any cupcakes.   Go to the store and buy them.

Doesn't seem like OP hasn't been active for quite some time. I would love to know if his cupcake business ever took off or not. Would interesting to find out how it ended.

You should actually use BTC/mBTC specifiy a value rather than use μBTC, because μBTC rarely used here.

I will buy some. What country do you live in? do you pay for shipping?

Gaaaaahhhhh!!!  Why do people keep resurrecting this thread?!!  It's in an old folks home just wanting to die already. Let's give it a good death and stop posting in it. The person with the cupcakes is long gone.

It is not worth it at all. You will probably get cupcake puree by the time it reaches India.

Hello

We are the owners of a bakery business in Mexico that makes pastries, cookies, cakes, and cupcakes. We has been funded only by crypto (litecoin most, some bitcoin).

I want to say you and your girl friend: go ahead! Create wonderful cupcakes, delicious, gorgeous and sell them near you, on parties, baby showers and other events, and eventually, develop cupcakes without sugar, without gluten, and for vegans. And then, develop a way to export them to many countries.

Let know your girlfriend that passion for what she does is the best thing, and if she likes a lot making cupcakes, bitcoin can empower her business with global commerce.

How can you say something like that and not link us to your store?

Lol Mexican crypto-bakery.  Come on now, what else do you sell?

But if a cupcake will be delivered after 1 week, I think it hasn't the same tasty as the first day.

LOL. That is so true. Where are you are based? Do you do free shipping to every country in the world? Otherwise there is no point for this business.

Oops its unworthy idea according to me If wanna do for overseas trading and all It will not work with bitcoin I guess especially in this business. Better op can suggest to work with local city for cup cake business

I think food is very difficult to sell online with a variety of country's around.
Also the transport is very difficult and a cupcake will dry out after a couple days.

It is indeed very difficult to sell food around the world.

You should namely take into account the shelf-life date and freshness.

You should namely be careful with it.

I think its pretty cool to do it, and pay with the bitcoin.
The only thing is that its very hard to get it really working.

Yeh... send homemade thing to another country is cool, but food isn't a good thing, but some sort of "natural" thing could be good, like specif trees seedlings or some jams.

Like Acerola, Kakadu Plum, Goji, Camu Camu, Guava.... all of these could be in raw, but better send it through mail in a form of jam. Don't know... maybe I'm crazy. auhauaha  :P

Sigh. People are so stuck on the whole shipping thing that they overlook the fact that it can appeal to people in the local area. They can just simply add a Bitcoin payment option as well as the usual payments. If you really want to ship worldwide then it would need to be chock-full of preservatives, and I'm pretty sure that if OP plans on charging $2.65 for each cupcake, then they're going to be of pretty high quality (or large) and would not include the aforementioned preservatives.

Though OP has not disclosed their location, it should be noted that there would likely be some Bitcoin users in the local area, and if there aren't, then it would bring forth more publicity to Bitcoin. This is a good thing.

Note: OP has not been active since October 14, of last year.

Yes I am thinking the same thing shipping is very difficult to do.
I think its pretty hard to work out the idea, good luck !

Those  are 697K sat. per cupcake considering a average price of  $380 for BTC + transactions fees + shipping fees, it sound expensive, and yes agree with another guy, better you and she could think  sell in your local area only or think in opening a coffee shop to sell all products.

Exactly. The problem though it needs to be fresh and stay fresh.
So you will get more orders if you can maintain the freshness of the product.

I think its true the transport is pretty difficult to arrange.
But its possible in a local store for sure, I hope your idea comes true.

I think its pretty sweet if you could buy them with bitcoins.
The only thing is that's difficult with shipping.
Cupcakes will dry out very fast at the most times.

if would be very interested to buy thru bitcoin if your store can deliver the cupcakes.
people would be interested so long as they don't need to wait for days for it. maybe you can partner up with wedding organizer for such business.

Then it very expensive cupcakes I think. I collect and store my Bitcoin rather well then I will buy cakes. I think that fact a bit of a waste of money.
I prefer to buy pizza for the money.

I think its pretty nice if you would do that, its very sweet if possible.
The only thing is that the transport of it is very difficult to do.

**Everyone has said this**

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That sounds very nice indeed.

But I would not buy their cupcakes frankly.

I save and store it rather than I go give that

I dont like cupcakes very much. I dont like the taste.
But maybe if I have Bitcoins I am going to save it.
And maybe later I will buy a pizza or something.

after reading this thread, i agree with some people here who mentioned that your business wouldn't grow up due to the shiping technical, adoption of bitcoin, etc
but i really like your idea anyway

I think its pretty sweet if its possible.
But the only thing that is a bit weird is how do you shipping it.
You should just do it locally, not in a whole area.

I think its pretty nice, but its also difficult to do.
How do you want get a payment and with area's ?
Also the point of transporting is pretty difficult, what people are already saying.

that's sweet. i hope someday i will do as you do wity your girl friend,but i still dont have any good spot,i life in village with almost no one know about bitcoin.

I guess buying a cupcake with bitcoin is just like buying a cupcake with the dollar, as the price of a cupcake listed in the dollar price, we have to adjust with bitcoin we have to buy the cupcake. but it was a very good idea to generate a bitcoin  :)

Idea is good, but shipping would be horrible, if not price, then how do you think cupcakes will travel 200 kilometers and still taste good?

would be nice to buy cupcakes and other food for bitcoins, just like everyone says, shipping would be huge problem, price would be huge, but good luck!

Only the stars can want a luxury like that.  :D

I dont like cupcakes at all. Because other wise I am fat. I like pizza more. But I dont give BTC out to food. That is waste of money.
I save my BTC and wait for a little longer. And maybe I can get some profit later. So I have more money for myself.

Well I think its a pretty good idea, I'm very interested but the point is the transport and the workout of the idea, its pretty difficult to make it happen for real. I think you first need to start locally and make sure and clear that you only accept bitcoins, so it gets more popular on the streets.

Food for bitcoins, thats awesome idea! just you would ship to your country only? or world-wide? what prices would be?

Pizza, cupcakes, and soft drinks. sound very interesting. But I think you can only do this  for your own city, Because shipping these product to rest of the world is too hard. sounds .. Good luck for you and your girl friend.

glad to see if your girlfriend know and accept bitcoin,but did you think some people want to pay cupcake with some complicated ways?for regular people of course its too complicated,but for bitcoin user no problem.

Its pretty nice to have cupcakes that you can order online and pay with the bitcoin, a whole new door would get open because of it.
The only thing that is a downside is that the transport would be difficult to arrange.

Indeed the idea is good but it can only by possible locally because you can not sell them globally.
This because you can not cupcakes globally they will dry out for sure.

I dont like cupcakes at all. But If I can order it online I will have it and maybe I will buy some pizza too.
But The value of Bitcoin is now very low, but I think that it will rise later and it will be more worth, so you can buy more in the future.

it could be a good business. but it is very difficult to book a cupcake if we are very far distance. cupcake it may be crushed when it comes to my place, so maybe you could do in your area   :D

Yeah its a good idea for a local area, but not for a whole country.
Its of course difficult to transport globally but local also, so that's something to think about.

Agreed with you.. and I am also wondering if he make something like that. than what will be price of a cupcake.. In here my area, a cupcakes price is 5 Rupeez, which is something like 0.05$.. shipping globally with this rate is how feasible I do not know.

Well nobody from international borders would try to buy cupcakes by bitcoins, as due to huge shipping costs.
But the indigenous people would like to have them delivered to their house

Yeah but the value is now quite low so that will be not so good.
And I dont like cupcakes at all. I like more pizza or something, that tastes very good.

Yes, I wondering about that also, its pretty difficult to have low prices and doing the shipping.
Another thing is will there be a lot of people asking about this, cupcake are not ate much in my country if I'm honest

Yes, it is difficult to get global customers, your this idea is pretty good. If you do it local level then you must get too many customers. People can place order via phone call and get the product in short time.

I think cupcakes is not a good idea when considering worldwide shipping. But if you do this work for other things like beer, soft drinks, and something like that, then it may work and it would be also good for bitcoin to grow.

I think its good its a good idea but only for a local shop it would be good, because you can not hold cupcakes good for a long time, but I think it has potential.
You should work it out and then sell it locally.

I think there is interest in my area but they problem is that its not easy to transport the goods to a address that is far from the bakery, Also the point is the transport because some people are just throwing with it , like it can not get destroyed.
I think you have to think about this really good if you want to do this and get serious.

All good ideas, guys, but I'm sure if they were going to do it they would have done so already

It's 7 months after the OP posted  ;D

i dont think this gonna be effective,expect your cupcake can delivered online ,i said like that because most of people that use bitcoin is online and sat in their room,burger and pizza is good,but i dont think with cupcakes.

I think its possible with cupcakes but only locally, it can never shipped for a long time and its also the point if people need a lot of cupcakes at once, its gonna be difficult but its possible.
If you work this idea out it can work but you need a good plan for this because you also need someone that can ship the cupcakes to nearby houses etc.

Price for cupcakes looks very large, also shipping won't be cheap too, and whwre you would send them? To world, or just your country?

No, it is not so smart to buy now some cupcakes. The value is not so high now and that will be good in the future.
But maybe you must wait a while and wait to get some more value, so you can spend also more.

Yes I'm asking myself the same question but I think you can best start locally first and think about it how you can ship it easy and also very safe so the cupcakes won't get crushed.
Also I would not go globally because its not worth it in my opinion it will cost you to much.

im a bit intressted in this . might be a good idea depending on price :)

Finnaly, food for bitcoin, very nice idea, and if cupcakes are good, then price is okay too, just shipping is a huge problem, because price would go high too

I think its a good idea, but its hard to work it out because its a problem with the transport you need to hire real transporters because otherwise transport company's will throw with it and it will crushed when it will arrives.
This idea can succeed but it will be a task if you ask me because its still a bit difficult to work it out.

that's a good idea unless you just sell it in your city because selling them in some cities may make you don't get any profit. especially cupcakes may not safe in long term

I think there will be people interested in your service, but I think you should wait till the bitcoin is little bit bigger, because if you will do it locally nobody is gonna buy it because they do not know the bitcoin, well most people in a local area here do not know the bitcoin at all.
I think its a good idea but you should wait till more people in your area are using bitcoins so you can make it easy for them and people will buy it then for sure.

thats a nice idea, just you can't send them to all countries because of too long distance and way too high price then, but if you will start to send in your country, then it's a good idea

price for one cupcake is pretty expensive, but if they're good then it's worth that, also how about shipping? where you would ship only? America or europe too,also if shipping will be really expensive and long, i don't think that peopli will want to spend their bitcoins on food

well 2,65$/cupcake is pretty a lot, since 1 person won't buy just one cupcake, it will cost atleast 10$ and then shipping price, +5$ atleast, so price is pretty huge

but food for bitcoin, cupcakes would be really nice thing, i have never seen any food for bitcoins till now and it's awesome, i would buy them from you

that's the point, even if they would live and bake these cupcakes in America, they could ship them to their state only, because they can't ship cupcakes for more than week i think because it would be ugly, but yeah i also think that this idea could work

that will be very good of course. But you must also know how you want to ship it because that is very important for the costumers.
And it is better if Bitcoin will be more worth and the most important thing is that it must be also more used.

yeah awesome to see more and more food for bitcoins, because i can't find lots of stores that accept bitcoin for food

and i don't think that they would shit to other countries, it would be very expensive and quality of cupcakes would be horrible after 2 weeks in plastic box

They probably wouldn't shit to other countries and that issue has been asked over and over and over in this thread, which OP has long abandoned.  Why do you people not get this??

It will be not good to spend your Bitcoins now around this time. It will be very good if you are doing that later when the value will be more.
Than you can have some more cupcakes or something. And that will be very good. But you need some patience I think.

Interesting idea. But why limited only on cupcakes? Maybe to grow the offer to any kind of cakes, that would be a good idea. Haven't seen many offers that inculde selling food for Bitcoins but I beleive this has a future.

Yes it is very interesting, i hope that we will see even more food for bitcoins in future, and cupcakes is realy good thing for bitcoins

Just i am afraid of shipping, price would be really high also you can't ship food for long time but anyway good idea

At present only few online stores are accepting bitcoin. Soon you may flourish with your cup cake business as bitcoin usage is increasing in food industry and food courts.

You should do it but how exactly do you get them there on time without breaking or being stale ? If you shipped her it would take too long.

I say go for it OP!!

If you do it right, I am sure the business will flourish :)

i like your idea, i mean food for bitcoin is thing that every bitcoin user waits for, so i am really sure that you will always have lots of buyers

just problem would be with shipping, so you could sell them to your state/country only, but later maybe to other too?

It is very good to buy some good stuff with Bitcoin, but indeed you must look on how it will ship, I think that will be the most difficult things that you have.
But it will be very nice if there are more people or stores that will accept Bitcoin, so Bitcoin will also be more used and that will be perfect.

romantic bitcoin story so far..
i think you should get bigger effort to sell your cupcake with bitcoin payment,first step of course introduce bitcoin to your buyer,and then you sill many customer who love bitcoin and considering love your cupcakes.

It is nice that you can sell cupcakes but it is difficult to transport them so if you want to make some profit with Bitcoin you have to sell it later if the value will be higher.
Or you can just sell some other stuff that you want to sell it online and also easy to transport.

Now you might be getting low profit when days pass all get good profit as more stores starts accepting bitcoin. The initiation made now will increase your production and supply which is needed for a good profit.