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Show HN: My new side project is live. It is city guide for best foods

vgrec 8y ago
Looks very nice, and congrats on finishing your side project! Could you please give some details about project implementation? like: - what technologies were you using (front/back-end) - and how long did it take to finish the project
faridmovsumov 8y ago
It would be very nice to get some feedback
grif-fin 8y ago
Well done on deploying your side project. Looks shiny. + The quality of the pictures really pay off, how did you get access to such good quality photoes? - The descriptions are missing for some dishes. Maybe adding some ingridients would help? - If I like a food I would like to know which resturant makes them well near me. You don't have that feature yet. That makes me think, what is the purpose of foodieadvice? Just national dishes? - Most likely I as a tourist am looking for the food while touring, doesn't this make more sense to be a mobile app? Qs: * How are you planning to make money? Linking resturnats as an add to a dish would be the obvious way, have you thought of that? * How come you went for cities/countries and not just country?
faridmovsumov 8y ago
@grif-fin Thank you for your comments and feedbacks - I got all pictures from free stock photo websites so far. - We are trying to add description to all dishes. Also adding ingredients is on my plans. - I will add feature to see best places to eat some food in next phase. It is coming soon. - I will convert it to mobile app also but it is not priority at the moment. I am expecting users to find us from Google actually. ---------------- - Monetization: - I am planning to build an api and make a monthly subscription for it. - Advertisement also an option. Q: How come you went for cities/countries and not just country? A: I will also suggest places to eat for specific foods in cities. So I build it in a way that I can link places to food. And also for some countries, there are differences between foods in cities. But for most of countries foods are same. This point is still in my mind. I believe for clear design it is good to separate
- grif-fin 8y ago
  I am surprised you managed to find all of those quality pictures from free stock photo webs. Just wondering, what sort of API do you think can get you monthly subscriptions?
  - faridmovsumov 8y ago
    https://www.pexels.com/ https://www.pexels.com/ is especilly a great source. After sharing this project on Twitter I got some feedbacks about requirement for api. I think if I will get more requests I will build an api and give access to it with monthly subscription. My Tweet: https://twitter.com/faridmovsumov/status/1079005727354687488 https://twitter.com/faridmovsumov/status/1079005727354687488
mikerah13 8y ago
Very nice. What is your tech stack? Is this on github? Have you thought of adding some mapping to this, maybe suggesting locations where these dishes can be found? I might could help you out with that if you had any interest. Good Job.
- faridmovsumov 8y ago
  Thank you :) I am using PHP/Laravel, Nginx, MySQL, Redis I bought POFO theme from themeforrest and created my front end on top of it. Basically doing most of things with Bootstrap and JQuery. application is installed on Ubuntu server.
- faridmovsumov 8y ago
  In next phase of project I am planning to start adding locations and allow users suggest best locations to eat foods in cities. It is very nice to hear people wants to contribute. I will let you know when location suggestion feature is ready. Thank you :)
- faridmovsumov 8y ago
  It is not open source.
tobylane 8y ago
Site looks great. I'd shrink the footer. Content wise it's hard to know how to judge it. London has decent restaurants from nearly everywhere, but some of the best are not central (New Malden for Korean, Green Lanes for Turkish).
- faridmovsumov 8y ago
  Thank you for feedback. I was thinking about footer same thing actually but waiting someone else to give this feedback to shrink it actually :) I will make instagram picture heights smaller than it will be good I think. Goal in the end to show all content based on community decisions. So I believe content will be better with time. But we try to make good researches about cities to fill initial content. Then it will improve with feedbacks.
  - onurozkan 8y ago
    I can suggest "Haringey" in London for Turkish food.

Looks very nice, and congrats on finishing your side project! Could you please give some details about project implementation? like: - what technologies were you using (front/back-end) - and how long did it take to finish the project

faridmovsumov 8y ago

It would be very nice to get some feedback

grif-fin 8y ago

Well done on deploying your side project. Looks shiny. + The quality of the pictures really pay off, how did you get access to such good quality photoes? - The descriptions are missing for some dishes. Maybe adding some ingridients would help? - If I like a food I would like to know which resturant makes them well near me. You don't have that feature yet. That makes me think, what is the purpose of foodieadvice? Just national dishes? - Most likely I as a tourist am looking for the food while touring, doesn't this make more sense to be a mobile app? Qs: * How are you planning to make money? Linking resturnats as an add to a dish would be the obvious way, have you thought of that? * How come you went for cities/countries and not just country?

faridmovsumov 8y ago

@grif-fin Thank you for your comments and feedbacks - I got all pictures from free stock photo websites so far. - We are trying to add description to all dishes. Also adding ingredients is on my plans. - I will add feature to see best places to eat some food in next phase. It is coming soon. - I will convert it to mobile app also but it is not priority at the moment. I am expecting users to find us from Google actually. ---------------- - Monetization: - I am planning to build an api and make a monthly subscription for it. - Advertisement also an option. Q: How come you went for cities/countries and not just country? A: I will also suggest places to eat for specific foods in cities. So I build it in a way that I can link places to food. And also for some countries, there are differences between foods in cities. But for most of countries foods are same. This point is still in my mind. I believe for clear design it is good to separate

grif-fin 8y ago
I am surprised you managed to find all of those quality pictures from free stock photo webs. Just wondering, what sort of API do you think can get you monthly subscriptions?
- faridmovsumov 8y ago
  https://www.pexels.com/ https://www.pexels.com/ is especilly a great source. After sharing this project on Twitter I got some feedbacks about requirement for api. I think if I will get more requests I will build an api and give access to it with monthly subscription. My Tweet: https://twitter.com/faridmovsumov/status/1079005727354687488 https://twitter.com/faridmovsumov/status/1079005727354687488

mikerah13 8y ago

Very nice. What is your tech stack? Is this on github? Have you thought of adding some mapping to this, maybe suggesting locations where these dishes can be found? I might could help you out with that if you had any interest. Good Job.

faridmovsumov 8y ago
Thank you :) I am using PHP/Laravel, Nginx, MySQL, Redis I bought POFO theme from themeforrest and created my front end on top of it. Basically doing most of things with Bootstrap and JQuery. application is installed on Ubuntu server.
faridmovsumov 8y ago
In next phase of project I am planning to start adding locations and allow users suggest best locations to eat foods in cities. It is very nice to hear people wants to contribute. I will let you know when location suggestion feature is ready. Thank you :)
faridmovsumov 8y ago
It is not open source.

tobylane 8y ago

Site looks great. I'd shrink the footer. Content wise it's hard to know how to judge it. London has decent restaurants from nearly everywhere, but some of the best are not central (New Malden for Korean, Green Lanes for Turkish).

faridmovsumov 8y ago
Thank you for feedback. I was thinking about footer same thing actually but waiting someone else to give this feedback to shrink it actually :) I will make instagram picture heights smaller than it will be good I think. Goal in the end to show all content based on community decisions. So I believe content will be better with time. But we try to make good researches about cities to fill initial content. Then it will improve with feedbacks.
- onurozkan 8y ago
  I can suggest "Haringey" in London for Turkish food.