BiteSight
The video-first food delivery app. Imagine TikTok meets DoorDash.
BiteSight shows users videos of food we think they will love from nearby restaurants and delivers it right to their door. Zac and Lucious studied together at UT Austin. Zac did CS and AI Research, and Lucious built his first $1M ARR product while moonlighting at a YC startup at age 19. Since launching the beta in February, BiteSight has onboarded 274 restaurants in SF, handled 211 orders, and users are growing more than 50% each week, all organically. UberEats and DoorDash have become cluttered and impersonal super apps. They've created a $30B opportunity for a delivery app that puts the customer experience first by combining high-quality videos, recommendations, and social proof from your most trusted food critics - your friends.
Active Founders
Lucious McDaniel IV, Founder
Lucious is the Co-founder & Chief Eating Officer of BiteSight. Before BiteSight, Lucious built his first $1M ARR product while moonlighting at a YC company at 19 years old. Lucious also built a treasury management company focused on nonprofits and was an analyst at General Atlantic covering restaurant tech.
Zac Schulwolf, Founder
Chief Tasting Officer at BiteSight, UT Austin Turing Scholar '22, previously built random projects and conducted time-series transformer research during his masters, is probably wearing a restaurant t-shirt
Company Launches
tl;dr: BiteSight is the video-based food delivery app that learns what you like and shows you exactly what you are craving. Watch mouthwatering full-screen videos to discover dishes from nearby restaurants and get food delivered right to your door. Imagine TikTok meets DoorDash.
😣 The Problem
Popular food delivery apps work well if you know what you want to order, but they make it difficult to discover new dishes or restaurants because they are plagued with generic stock images and inflated ratings. That’s no fun for anyone.
🚀 Our Solution
BiteSight makes it easy and exciting to find your next bite and get it delivered right to your door.
Scroll full-screen videos: View mouthwatering dishes from the best restaurants in all of San Francisco.
Personalized Food Feed: See exactly what you want to eat when you want to eat it.
Search how you want: Whether you are looking for “Burritos,” “Healthy Lunch,” or just “Something Cheesy,” put it in our search bar and find exactly what you are craving.
Save it for later: Something tasty catch your eye? Bookmark it for your next meal!
(Coming Soon) BiteSight with friends: See what your friends are ordering and try their top takeout recommendations.
📖 Our Backstory
We met at UT Austin (Hook ’em🤘) during college. After Zac finished his Master’s in Computer Science, Lucious quit his job as a restaurant tech investor in New York, and together, we started cooking on ideas around our shared love of food.
🙌 Our Asks
Try BiteSight: Download BiteSight and give it a try next time you order takeout!
Spread the word: Do you have friends who are major foodies, adventurous eaters, or still working in finance, consulting, or tech and have a fat daily meal credit to blow? Tell them about BiteSight!
Recommend a restaurant: Let us know if you have any favorite neighborhood spots that you think should be on BiteSight, and we will make it happen!
YC Sign Photo
