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Attempted to build a similar thing a few years ago when living in Tokyo. Provide a selection of restaurants within a 1km radius and automagically provide 3 rec
by SenHeng 2y ago
Attempted to build a similar thing a few years ago when living in Tokyo.
Provide a selection of restaurants within a 1km radius and automagically provide 3 recommendations based on my preferences.
We had multiple API providers available, Tabelog, Gurunavi and Hotpepper, all required a paid developer license. We still needed to use the Google maps API to get the user's current location though.
This was also just when Google Maps suddenly raised their API pricing. After spending a couple of weekends building a working prototype, we stopped as we couldn't justify the cost of paying multiple API providers for basically 3 guys looking to save 10 mins deciding where to get lunch.
Also, this kind of app is a common theme if you frequent meetups in Tokyo. There's always at least 1 person that has built such a thing.
- xp84 2y ago> We still needed to use the Google maps API to get the user's current location though. I’m sure as somebody who actually built a prototype, you understand the situation better than me, but I’m curious: why would just getting the user’s lat/long require anything you’d pay for? Wouldn’t the OS or browser provide that to you?
- SenHeng 2y agoOops. I meant that we were using the maps/places API to get lat/long of the restaurants using the street address from the other API providers, then using that to calculate a 'N mins walk away'. We were just testing the abilities of the various APIs. Google was the only that provided travelling time estimates.