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Comment by jareklupinski

1 day ago

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

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samrus  1 day ago

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

  • jareklupinski  21 hours ago

    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

jmkb  1 hour ago

Thanks, this is a really fun way to view the data. I don't think the no-google/no-yelp filters will really accomplish this goal though. Most of the ones I examined were either variations in the restaurant name or not really restaurants (gas station convenience store, hotel with breakfast, catering LLC with no storefront, etc.) The google and yelp datasets in NYC are really quite good.

chvid  1 day ago

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

  • jareklupinski  21 hours ago

    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