We Text
Text every restaurant you like at once, and let the offers come back to you
Native app | Marketplace.
Outcome: A booking flow with the phone calls taken out of it, and a discount attached to the far end.
Project inclusions: Native app, multi-venue broadcast messaging, offer inbox, wallet coupons with in-venue scanning.
Marketplace App Development Australia — We Text Case Study
Reversing who does the asking
Finding a table normally means ringing venues one at a time and taking whatever price is on the menu. We Text inverted it. A diner sets their preferences — meal, date, time, party size, suburb — and texts every participating restaurant that matches, all at once. The restaurants reply with exclusive offers sent straight to the diner's phone.
An accepted offer becomes a coupon in the diner's wallet, scanned at the restaurant for validation on the night.
The Product
Two sides, each getting something the phone call could not give them. The diner sees a list or map of participating venues with cuisine, price band and location, composes one request, and watches confirmations arrive in a single thread. The restaurant fills a table it would otherwise have left empty, at a discount it chose, on a night it nominated.
Key Features
- One request broadcast to multiple venues simultaneously
- Preference filtering by meal, date, time, guest count and suburb, with an option to include surrounding areas
- Offers returned directly to the diner's phone, with confirmed replies tracked in one inbox
- List and map views of participating restaurants
- Wallet coupons, scanned and validated in venue
- Booking accepted with a tap — no phone call
Where it got to
We Text was built and never publicly released. The listing side worked and the offer loop worked; the engagement ended before launch.
Two-sided products fail on the empty side rather than the clever one — and marketplaces carry gates around offer terms, pricing representations and how a coupon is honoured. A Launch Gate Audit exists to find those before launch rather than after. See the rest of the portfolio.
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