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HN – what are some good construction/handyman books you would recommend?

Hi – with COVID 19 and restaurants being asked to change their seating plans, what are some decent, inexpensive Storefront Rendering tools that I can show what an area would look like with planters, seating, etc.

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Hi – I am trying to solve a problem I am experiencing at work. Essentially I need a simple solution that 1. allows for stakeholders (in our case managers, or others it could be a customer) to place a request for a niche service 2. I would then like that niche service request to get pushed out to a pool of vendors that we've vetted to be able to perform x niche service. There are obviously other logistics such as paying the vendor after etc and on-going booking management but I can't seem to understand why such a product doesn't exist. I've seen things like ShareTribe and Launch27 but nothing that is as simple as this. I almost envision an intake form sheet --> pumped into Trello --> alert pool of people if a card hits within a certain list --> allow the person interested to claim and complete the job --> payment issued.

Does anyone know of such a simple service marketplace? Many of the options out there overcomplicate this.

Hi HN

How does the community take an idea and prevent themselves from getting stuck or even better, how to 'unstuck' yourselves to be able to move beyond and work on a side project?

A friend of mine works for a restaurant group in NYC and they like many they have had to respond by offering delivery to folks in order to keep some revenue flowing. He and I were chatting and he mentioned that lately, a large majority of high value ($500+) orders were fraudulent with the fraudster ordering things that can be resold such as high-value wine, liquor, etc that isn't necessarily perishable. He says that the scams work like this:

1. The order comes in via Caviar usually with a ridiculous amount of booze. It is usually a courier delivery but looking back some have been picked up by 'customers'.

2. There are some instances where the order gets canceled either by the scammer within the 2 min grace period post ordering of from the actual customer who had their account phished/received some sort of alert/and stopped the transaction.

Has anyone here in the HN community been impacted by such a scam on Caviar/DoorDash? I am intrigued by it because there is obviously someone on the receiving end that's ending up with a boatload of high-end booze and then offloading it somehow. Why wouldn't Caviar just require folks to enter their CVV again before checking out as a security precaution?