CLUSTER RESTAURANT-DISCOVERY-RECOMMENDATIONS · 64 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-03-25
Restaurant discovery and food locator apps
This cluster consists of 48 products focused on restaurant and food discovery, including map-based browsing, swiping interfaces, random selection wheels, and preference matching by cuisine or dietary needs. The dated entries from 2025-01 to 2026-07 show a thin, steady trickle of roughly one to three launches per month, with a slight uptick in late 2025 and mid-2026, but the majority of members have no source date. On traction, eatwhere-front leads with 1 star, while foodie and Restomatch-new each have 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 3 ai-built · 1 hand-coded · 16 unlabelled
Operator · 12 hobby · 2 indie · 2 open source · 4 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01GanfanMap1★5 days—hobbyLocal-first web map for tracking restaurants with visited and wishlist status, ratings, spending records, filtering, and map browsing.
- 02pic-my-cafe0★13 days—App that helps users discover and choose cafés based on their location and preferences.
- 03FatBuddy0★9 days—hobbyLocation-based restaurant picker that randomly chooses a nearby canteen or eatery for the user's next meal.
- 04restaurant-picker10★10 dayslivehobbyWeb app that lets groups vote on cuisine, price, and area and shows a ranked list of matching restaurants.
- 05eat-a-rai-dee0★11 daysliveBilingual lunch finder that shows nearby restaurants on an interactive map using location data.
- 06Food-Roulette0★23 days—hobbyWeb app that spins a wheel of nearby restaurants based on a given location and distance to decide where to eat.
- 07pluckers-pal-finder0★21 days—hobbyWeb app that helps users find Pluckers restaurants and dining companions.
- 08guiame-app0★15 daysliveMobile app that matches users with restaurants in Panama and Mexico based on their preferences.
- 09ma-foodiefind0★2 days—ai-builthobbyGroup restaurant finder that gathers everyone's locations and cravings, then suggests places to eat at a convenient midpoint.
- 10gourmet-map-app-public0★10 days—hobbyWeb app that recommends nearby restaurants based on selected genre, budget,and walking distance, showing results on a map and list.
- 11lezzetai0★9 days—hobbyWeb app that lets people rate and rank restaurants and other venues to find the best local spots.
- 12eatwhere-front1★1 mo—App that helps users decide where to eat by showing nearby restaurants and personalized recommendations.
- 13date-night-roulette0★29 dayslivehobbyWeb app that randomly selects a restaurant for date nights from a list of options.
- 14Volicious0★24 dayslivehand-codedindieRestaurant discovery app that ranks nearby eateries using a Bayesian weighted rating to avoid inflated scores from few reviews.
- 15Restomatch-new0★1 mo—indieA restaurant matching app that helps users discover and choose places to eat based on preferences.
- 16virtualElectro0★1 moliveai-builthobbyWeb app that helps users find nearby shops based on their current location.
- 17cheap-eats-nuxt0★1 mo—hobbyWeb map service that helps people find affordable, honestly reviewed places to eat nearby, with a humorous tone.
- 18lunch-roulette0★3 moliveai-builthobbyWeb app that randomly picks a restaurant from a user's saved list of favorite places to eat.
- 19UnderEat0★1 moliveopen sourceOrganizes a user's favorite restaurants and bars, allowing sorting, browsing, import/export, and map directions to the nearest place.
- 20LocalCrop0★2 moliveopen sourceMobile app that maps nearby farms, farmers markets, CSAs, food hubs, and agritourism sites using public USDA directory data for shoppers.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.