Rich DeMuro here Rich on Tech telling you about several apps that can help you plan the perfect Valentine's Day. Most of these apps are on demand. Let's start with Zeal. This is an on demand massage app. They will bring the spa to your house. Literally, you tap a few things on the app, you say what you want, and next thing you know, you'll have a licensed massage therapist at your door. And you can even do a couple's massage with them. So they will bring two therapists. They
bring everything you need, They set up a bed. You have to find a place in your house where you can fit this, especially if you're gonna do the couple's massage. But I've done this before. It's really cool. I'm not a massage person, but you know, my wife loves to get these things, so you know, I play along and it's not bad. It's kind of cool. It's in your house,
you don't have to leave. The only thing you do need to know you have to supply a fresh set of sheets, so you do need a sheet for their bed and then of course a top sheet as well. So again that one is called Zeal and they will bring the massage to you. Now, if you need some wine, maybe some wine, a nice bottle of champagne, whatever it is, you can check out the alcohol delivery app Drizzly. They have a selection over fifteen hundred products, including wine, beer,
and spirits. You can pay and tip from inside the app, so I know a lot of people don't carry around cash anymore. You can tip right from inside and basically the order is delivered to your door in about an hour, and this all comes from participating local businesses. Again, you have to be twenty one to use this app. You know that though it's called Drizzly and it's an alcohol delivery app. I've seen my friends use this at a poker game I was at, so that was pretty cool.
I have not used this one myself at home, but we did test out a delivery to the station and it was pretty cool. They were here at the exact time they said they would be all right. Moving on. Now, you need some flowers, how about a website called The Book's Company. The Books Company has some really fresh flowers and the reason why their flowers are so fresh is because they ship them directly from the farm. So yes, your flowers come right from places like South America, Ecuador
and that's it. They cut them there and then they put them in a box and they send them to you. So we visited their facility in Marina del Rey and it's very nice, best smelling place I've ever been in. They say, if you take care of your bouquet, it can last weeks instead of days. I was able to keep the bouquet that they gave me just over a week, and they told me three ways to keep your flowers fresh. Number one, you got to snip the ends on a slant like, kind of on an angle, not straight, and
that helps them drink water. The second thing is that you want to change that water every single day. And the third thing is definitely used just a little drop of food or maybe a tiny drop of bleach, or even vodka. You can put a little tiny drop of vodka in there, and all three of those things will help to cut down on bacteria. And that's really what's killing those flowers that are in that vase. So check
out the books Very Cool Fresh Stuff. If you want to try them out, use my code rich on Tech for fifteen percent off your order, whether you're a new customer or an existing customer. So thanks to Books for setting that up. All right. Finally, one more thing to try out door dash dot com. Door dash is a food delivery service, and I know there's a million of these out there. What's cool about DoorDash is a couple of things They have like pretty much every restaurant you
could ever imagine signed up with them. And also, you can filter your restaurant results by the lowest delivery fee, so that's kind of a neat way to find Let's say you don't want to pay any sort of delivery fee, you can sort them by that delivery fee and see which ones are delivering for free. And sometimes restaurants do that.
Sometimes a're on special they'll do that as well. And if you want to save some cash, of course go with a low delivery fee, But if you want to go with top rated restaurants, you can go and sort that way as while some of the other services out there don't let you sort the restaurants as easily as DoorDash.
So that's what we like about them. We interview the CEO and co founder of DoorDash, nice guy, and just basically said that you know, consumers want to save money, they want to, you know, have us do the delivery for them. And it's also a good way for restaurants that don't normally do their own delivery to kind of outsource their delivery to a third party, and DoorDash and
all these other companies make that possible. So I loved when I ordered from DoorDash how they gave me the exact moment the person would ring my doorbell and no joke, that's the exact time they rang my doorbell. Now, I'm sure that was just pretty random, but that's they say their technology does. All Right, there you have it, four ways to deliver the perfect Valentine's Day through apps. If you want links all these things, go to the website Rich on tech dot TV. Thanks so much for listening.
I'm Rich DeMuro. See you next time.