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http://volgarev.me
There's a number of existing services (like http://www.feedrinse.com/) but I really wanted to make it as simple as possible (no sign ups, no fancy UI, easy to use and free).
1. Labels under the filter area look like buttons, I always want to click one of them :-)
2. The "sticky" top with map and filters and the scrolling list at the bottom I think not the best UX decision. I have a relatively small screen (1028x1024) and I almost don't see the list. Maybe the solution would be to be able to collapse the filters and map (and bring the map by clicking on the map icon from the listing).
I believe that this service will be extremely helpful for people who are travelling. Imagine a situation: you come to a new country, you don't really know that's the average bill in restaurant in the city center, how much the tour guide to that castle costs, etc. This kind of information might be hard to find online (actually, this is when I come up with the idea - when I was planning a trip to Czech Republic and simply couldn't figure out how much money do I need to take with me). You just fire up "PriceFlurry" app and get the _sense_ (that's important, reviews are recommendations rather than something you can trust 99%) of how much the staff costs.
Again, thanks for your comments.
In my home project I wanted to save some money so just bought the CSV file, wrote a tool that converts it to a binary representation (~1GB) and a driver (.NET) that can find records very quickly.