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alpakhaon Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

Reviews are coming from Google directly. I'll likely add OpenTable reviews as well since I feel their content quality is quite high.

I'd love to add bloggers but it seems quite difficult to automate and I want to minimize how much manual work this project requires.

Similarly I'd love to include all the chefs and track which restaurant they're at now but I haven't found a good way to automate this.

alpakhaon Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

I see what you mean now. This has become an interesting experiment in UX. I updated the platform to leave any previous pins on the map (even if they're no longer in the top 50 results). Hopefully it works better now!

alpakhaon Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

1. Agreed, I'll likely hide them by default. The results from Gayot/Eater are incredibly noisy, and I doubt most people are interested in seeing restaurants from Gayot's "Top 10 dog-friendly date brunch spots this holiday."

2/3. I was experimenting with numeric pins but have now switched back to pins which vary by size depending on the restaurant awards. I also increased the pin count to 50 by default. Can you try it again and see if it feels more intuitive?

alpakhaon Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

So glad to hear that! After building the V1, I was similarly surprised by how many new restaurants I was able to instantly discover. Even found a few spots which I'm tempted to travel for.

alpakhaon Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

Thanks! I struggled with the same problems. Existing search tools make it difficult to discover high-quality restaurants (either via poor UI, lack of granular filters, or low quality content). I'd be curious to hear if you have a better solution to filter/gather reviews.

alpakhaon Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

https://mapofthebest.com

I love food and I love travel. Naturally I decided to compile a list of all the best restaurants in the world. Still very much a work-in-progress but would love to get feedback.

alpakhaon Show HN: Energy and Protein Bar Ranking

What are some of your favorites? I'd love to add them.

So far I've only added whichever bars I've spotted at healthy food stores over the past few months (in Singapore, Australia, and USA).

alpakhaon Show HN: Energy and Protein Bar Ranking

Thanks for the kind words! Technically it's nothing to write home about. It's a Frankenstein's monster combination of vanilla CSS/JS stitched together with whatever random third-party libraries I could find online. I would not recommend looking under the hood :)