planert41

Hi HN Foodies,

What restaurant lists/food content would interest you enough to download a new app for if it gave you a visual map of every restaurant on that list and the ability to quickly sort and find the nearest restaurant with your phone?

Imagine traveling to Thailand and having a map of every restaurant recommended by Migrationology or all the restaurants from Netflix's "Ugly Delicious" to help you find legit good food near you when you're traveling with just a tap.

I've been using Youtube and other sites to find travel food recommendations, but have been frustrated by the amount of manual legwork I still need to do to organize the data into Google Sheets or Google Map Pins. Both aren't great as well on your phone when you're hungry and just trying to find a good place to eat nearby.

So I've built a product to fix that for myself and am looking to source content people might be interested in to start beta-testing.

Example:

Award/Curated lists (Michelin, Eater38)

Food TV shows (Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Food Network)

Food content creator (Bourdain, David Chang)

Youtube Channels (Migrationology, Strictly Dumplings, Worth It)

What food content do HN foodies really want as a map on their phone but can't get right now?

Whenever I travel to a new city/country, I always end up spending a lot of time manually organizing all the recommendations from friends (ie: restaurants, POI).

I either: 1) List names down in a draft email in real time when my friends tells me 2) Pin places on Google Maps 3) Search chat history 4) Call my friend up in real time and ask him for recommendations close to me.

Conversely I also have trouble when friends ask me for food recommendations in Chicago. I just pull a list from memory but I'm sure i'm missing some pretty awesome places. And hope that my friend somehow remembers them too.

The list itself is great for planning, but inconvenient when you're trying to spontaneously figure out what to do next around you.

Does anyone else on HN have a similar pain point? Is there a better solution beyond manual note-taking/Google Maps?

TLDR - Foodie is having a hard time collecting/organizing food recommendations from friends for travel. Do you have a similar pain point? What do you do?

Whenever I travel to a new city/country, I find myself asking friends who live/been there for food/restaurant/POI recommendations. But i always end up spending a lot of time collecting/organizing all the ideas in one place with very manual processes.

I either: 1) List all the names down in a draft email/note/msg as my friends are telling me about them in real time 2) Add pins on a Google Maps list 3) Search my chat history for names and addresses 4) Call my friend up in the middle of the day, tell him where i'm at, and ask him for recommendations.

But even with that list, it's still feels inconvenient when you're tying to figure out what you want to do next given your location/mood. Google Maps help you figure out what's closest to you, but you still have to manually click on each pin to figure out what they actually are, and a restaurant list still requires you to furiously google/yelp every place on the fly before making a decision.

Conversely, when my friends ask me for food recommendations in Chicago, I spit out a must-try list from memory, but I'm also hoping the other person remembers/jots it down somewhere, and hoping that list isn't missing some really good places I've not been to or thought about recently. My more organized friends would likely have an email list or google map pinned with all their fav places to send, but I'm not one of them.

I'm asking HN to see if other people have a similar pain point? If there is a better solution out there beyond manual note-taking/Google Maps? Or if its just me whining and being disorganized and nobody really cares?

TLDR - Foodie is having a hard time collecting/organizing food recommendations from friends for travel. Is there an easy solution out there? Do you have a similar pain point?