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Show HN: Just Get Me Food
- CJefferson 8y agoWhile this is a lovely idea, obviously the dataset is limited to not include things near me -- there are four open bars within 20 minutes walking distance. While the minimalism is lovely, a link which provided a little more information, particularly on where the data is coming from, would be nice.
- loeber 8y agoThank you! There is a "Read more on Yelp" link under the pictures for any restaurant, over to the right. I can make it more apparent.
- iconjack 8y agoThere are a few bars within two blocks of me and the site didn't find any of them. I like the minimalistic look but isn't the database the whole point of it?
- tptacek 8y agoThis finds 4 restaurants at $ within 20 miles of Chicago and Austin in Chicago; the circle with that radius covers almost the entire city of Chicago. I'm guessing this is optimized for SFBA; I'd recommend telling people it's not ready in other places yet.
- loeber 8y agoIt's a 20 minute walking distance (i.e. about a mile), not a 20 mile distance.
- tptacek 8y agoYikes, I stand corrected. But it's also missing basically every restaurant on North Avenue and most of Oak Park.
- loeber 8y agoI'm using Yelp's data under the hood, so that's surprising. Please confirm that those restaurants are currently open -- it's possible that I need to expand my queries.
- shawn 8y agoI think it's user error. The app's first recommendation for "I don't care, just give me cheap food" was a place I had no idea existed. It happens to be on North Avenue. https://www.yelp.com/biz/forastero-restaurant-chicago?adjust_creative=G1EQySgLTrqgtywHmyI1mQ&utm_campaign=yelp_api_v3&utm_medium=api_v3_business_lookup&utm_source=G1EQySgLTrqgtywHmyI1mQ https://www.yelp.com/biz/forastero-restaurant-chicago?adjust... This is an awesome app. I suspect there are a lot of happy users, but no one's saying anything because we're too busy visiting all the great places your app helped us discover. :)
- tptacek 8y agoI wonder if it's a location API thing; I can't tell where it thinks I am (and it's down now so I can't repeat the experiment.)
- theparanoid 8y agoDoesn't work in a Sacramento suburb. Tried cafes and restaurants.
- CaptainJustin 8y agoCool idea. I've seen more than a few things work based on the questions they ask and how well they present the results. Consider using design thinking for this space.
- mscasts 8y ago> Something went wrong! Stockholm, Sweden. I guess nothing outside SF works? :P
- loeber 8y agoIt uses Yelp's API under the hood. Is Yelp active in Stockholm? I'll go through the error messages and see what's up.
- juancampa 8y agoSame in Miami, FL
- danenania 8y agoI got the same in SF at first, but it worked after refreshing. Maybe an issue with getting location permissions on the first run?
- SOLAR_FIELDS 8y agoYou got farther than I did - tried it with restaurants in 10 minutes with $$ filter and it just spun on “Finding Restaurants” for 30 seconds before I killed it. This is in a rural area outside Zürich Switzerland.
- CamelCaseName 8y agoSomething went wrong?
- cjhanks 8y ago"Something went wrong!"
- aioprisan 8y agoLooks like 500 errors on posts to https://justgetmefood.com/api/get-suggestions https://justgetmefood.com/api/get-suggestions, may have hit Yelp API limits already?
- loeber 8y agoShould be working now -- there was a hanging database transaction. I've had to do a bit of live debugging.
- DennisAleynikov 8y agoThis is just a proxy for yelp API, same thing can be accomplished by opening their app and selecting the first thing you see. My friend and I made almost identical app with their api at CalHacks and it had the same options and app flow and returned one restaurant at random. You could also say no and it would give you another random restaurant. Quite low useability in the long run considering there's no unique dataset here and the app is trivial to build in a day.
- spike021 8y agoThis is a pretty low quality comment. What's wrong with someone experimenting with something? Many projects start small and after some iterations become much more useful. But instead let's harp on how simple/basic it is and how easy it is to make. \s
- eatitraw 8y agoUnfortunately, it didn't work for my city. The idea reminds me of "WHERE THE FUCK SHOULD I GO TO EAT?"( https://wtfsigte.com/ https://wtfsigte.com/)
- k__ 8y ago"Something went wrong!"
- 3stripe 8y agoCould default to “Hangry” mode and just show you a map of places to get food inside X minutes, including average wait time once there. No buttons.
- lucb1e 8y agoI like the idea, except that you can't override the location selection. It determined my location to be 80km away from where I really am, basically geoip. No idea what my browser based that on, but there seems no way to override this in your website (and I always prefer to override it, even if it would have worked, because it probably triggers sending WiFi MAC addresses to google).
- loeber 8y agoThis is a little tricky. I don't use GeoIP, but request a location from your browser. Location selection on mobile is generally pretty good, but it's very spotty from desktops. If the website can't get your location at all (i.e. if your browser refuses to share it), then you get to input it manually. Maybe I'll add a subtle option to always be able to access that dialog, to override the default geolocation.
- lucb1e 8y agoOh I didn't think denying would work, since it kept 'loading' (waiting for me) instead of showing an alternative right away. For most sites, that means it won't work. Perhaps show the alternative input at the same time as requesting it from the browser? Something like: Requesting location from your browser... <hr color=grey margin-top,bottom=50px> Or input your location manually: [ ] [OK] If the user hits deny, the form text could change to what it says now. Anyway, cool site :)
- jaysonelliot 8y agoThis is a pretty neat hackathon idea, but as an actual business, I'm afraid it falls into the vanishingly large set of services aimed entirely at well-paid young urbanites who haven't matured into basic life skills yet. We've probably seen enough startups aimed at people who don't want to cook, do laundry, shop for clothes, manage their budgets, go grocery shopping, or other life skills that everyone has to learn after you leave home. It's a nice alternative interface to Yelp. As a business, though, I'd look for a bigger problem to solve.
- trevyn 8y agoMaking clothes by hand and growing or hunting food used to be basic life skills, too.
- pavel_lishin 8y agoThis seems useful, with a few tweaks, for an office setting, where it takes ten people arguing over slack using three different services about where to go eat.
- charmides 8y agoYou talk about those things you listed as an irrevocable part of maturity, but back in the day, wealthy people did not have to do them. They had servants who cooked for them, did their laundry, cleaned their homes, bought their groceries, etc. And that's still true today, and even more so in certain places. And frankly, if you have a high enough salary to pay someone else to take of the mundane parts of your life, I don't see why you shouldn't.
- dcposch 8y agoSpecialization and comparative advantage are fundamental to human progress. Not that long ago, most ppl on Earth grew their own food. Now, only a few percent farm and the rest buy it from them. Why is it better for 100 people to each do their own laundry, vs paying a shop that does it efficiently, in bulk? > well-paid young urbanites who haven't matured into basic life skills yet > life skills that everyone has to learn after you leave home This is condescending. People make different choices with their time and money and that's fine. > It's a nice alternative interface to Yelp. As a business, though, I'd look for a bigger problem to solve. This is the Middlebrow Dismissal, my least favorite pattern on HN. Local search is a totally reasonable challenge, and Just Get Me Food is a nice prototype. What bigger problem are you solving?
- zatkin 8y agoThe name of the app implies a more impulsive decision, which means less friction on the search filtering would be ideal. Removing the distance filter and showing results which include the walking distance would take me directly to results. There's a cafe about two blocks away that I go to on the weekends and I swear it doesn't feel like a six minute walk, but the fact that I didn't see this location show up on the results for three minutes was disappointing.
- furgooswft13 8y agoHad no idea San Francisco was in walking distance from my location. Guess I'm the Flash (I'm literally on the opposite side of the country)
- gurgeous 8y agoAlso see 9forks - https://9forks.com https://9forks.com (Austin, Houston, Portland, Seattle). Just a quick side project, but maybe we'll pick it up again someday.
- whatsstolat 8y agoWorks in Sydney. Ty will try it for real soon
- loeber 8y agoHi Everyone! Thanks for the overwhelming interest -- I've hit all my daily API limits. I'll try to get those raised, and JustGetMeFood should be up and running for you tomorrow :) Please follow https://twitter.com/_justgetmefood https://twitter.com/_justgetmefood for updates.
- talltimtom 8y agoBrilliant. Simply brilliant. Next time my girlfriend goes into “I don’t know what I want, no not that, or that, or that”-mode, I can just hand her this app and let her sort it out herself.
- ljw1001 8y agoHow do you plan to compete with my mom?
- banisingh 8y agoUSEFUL (!!!). Will definitely use the next time I can't decide on where to eat