Depends on how you will feel if you don't ship it.
Will it remain a thorn in your side, like that idea that actually could have worked, and that you'll finish it later? or will you just be able to move on without second thoughts?
If the former, then ship it now, it'll fail, and you'll get experience in understanding how hard it actually is to reach people.
If the latter, drop it now and move on.
Honestly, no one is going to use this.
- you're in a restaurant, you look at the menu and think "ah I wonder what the internet is thinking about the ragout", I don't buy it for a second, but let's imagine it happens
- then you take your phone out
- then you authenticate
- then you look for that app that you barely use, what's the name again?
- then the app locates the restaurant through GPS, nice.
- then you need a way to tell your phone which dish you're looking at, will you type it? too long. Will you dictate it? in a restaurant? Will you shoot it with your camera, in a dim-light environment?
- then the app connects to other services to compile reviews, this is slow af.
- then you see an ad, cause monetization
- then 80% of the time, the app responds that no review talks about the dish you're looking at.
- and by the time you're there your date is gone. A shame, cause that ragout was pretty good.
> Honestly, no one is going to use this.
- you're in a restaurant, you look at the menu…
IMHO, you’re making a lot of assumptions, the primary being that it’ll be used while in the restaurant. Why not at home, whether you’re planning to go to a restaurant and trying to decide if it’s worth or just ordering a take out. How about planning a party? And so on.
There are several definite use cases, of course that doesn’t mean it’ll be successful, it’s just that it’s not clear but that no one will use it. Only post launch data will tell you.
So FWIW, I literally do this except by browsing yelp/maps reviews, and it sucks. Maps won't even let you go from a photo of a menu item to the review that included the photo.
Will it remain a thorn in your side, like that idea that actually could have worked, and that you'll finish it later? or will you just be able to move on without second thoughts?
If the former, then ship it now, it'll fail, and you'll get experience in understanding how hard it actually is to reach people.
If the latter, drop it now and move on.
Honestly, no one is going to use this.
- you're in a restaurant, you look at the menu and think "ah I wonder what the internet is thinking about the ragout", I don't buy it for a second, but let's imagine it happens
- then you take your phone out
- then you authenticate
- then you look for that app that you barely use, what's the name again?
- then the app locates the restaurant through GPS, nice.
- then you need a way to tell your phone which dish you're looking at, will you type it? too long. Will you dictate it? in a restaurant? Will you shoot it with your camera, in a dim-light environment?
- then the app connects to other services to compile reviews, this is slow af.
- then you see an ad, cause monetization
- then 80% of the time, the app responds that no review talks about the dish you're looking at.
- and by the time you're there your date is gone. A shame, cause that ragout was pretty good.