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Comment by embedding-shape

1 day ago

Same here, because I'm a part owner of a restaurant and we'd probably lose half our business without being on Google Maps as it's not in a busy street.

i just built a map precisely to highlight restaurants in my area who choose _not_ to pay Google/Yelp :)

https://eat.dash.nyc

https://github.com/jareklupinski/dash-nyc

  • Cool app. But the actual value is attention. To replace google maps for resteraunt doscovery, you need to be big in the attention market. Unfortunately good engineering alone doesnt do that, you need marketing/product

    • thanks :) it was built rly for me/family/friends, but it costs nothing to run (lives on the same server as my portfolio)

      doesnt have to be a hit, just has to exist i hope

  • nice app - how do you find those who are not on google?

    • thank you! in nyc, every restaurant must be licensed and pass a health inspection to operate, so i pulled in all of the health inspection reports :)

      yay open data