Show HN: Gwak – restaurant recommendations from people you trust

Hey everyone, OP here.

I've been working on this during nights and weekends for the past several months.

As someone who enjoys finding and trying new places to eat, I've gotten tired of scrolling through the same results on Yelp and Google Maps. Over time, I've realized some of the best places I've been were based on the opinions of trusted sources.

Gwak is a mobile app where you follow specific people for more curated recommendations. You can follow friends or specific influencers and you will only see recommendations from these people.

As a reviewer you:

  1. comment on restaurants
  2. add them to lists (e.g. Best SF Coffeeshops, Brunch spots in Brooklyn)
  3. share with others

As you review places, these get added to an auto-generated web profile (so you can share your lists of restaurants even with people without a Gwak account). Here's an example: [1].

I also include a list of the award winning restaurants (Michelin and James Beard) because I've never found a place that actually aggregates these and shows me which are nearby.

Stack:

  * React Native (using the Hermes Engine), Expo managed
  * Hasura on top of Postgres
  * Remix deployed on fly.io with tailwind
  * Dokku on Digital Ocean

Thanks and I appreciate any thoughts, questions, and feedback!

[1] https://getgwak.com/profiles/352c42a1-de04-41be-bb83-fc0ca81...

Love it, and the stack sounds like a lot of fun. Any regrets in terms of tech choices yet?

tried it and the UX is butter smooth, love it! also I am a big fan of the tech stack choices.

Love the idea and the tech stack!