Restaurant discovery and group picking
Apps that help diners find, save, review, and collectively decide on restaurants (swipe/vote group pickers, food diaries, local guides), plus some tools for restaurant owners like POS, QR menus, and order management.
Built for: Diners, friend groups, restaurant owners
Projects since May 04
174
Different builders
170
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-6%
AI is the core
9.2%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (62%), mobile app (30%), content or community site (2.9%) · from r/SideProject, r/SaaS, r/vibecoding, r/IMadeThis
Latest
- DriveThruIndex — Compares McDonald's menu prices across restaurants to check whether they vary by location.“Yesterday I saw McDonalds was using AI to set prices at its restaurants - so I built a website to see if this was true - and got a bit carried away.....”
- DinePoll — Lets a group organizer build a restaurant shortlist in an iPhone app and collect guest votes through a browser link.“DinePoll - Help your group choose a restaurant without making every guest install an app”
- menvu — Aggregates restaurant menus with photos of individual dishes into a visual, searchable database with social reviews.“Feedback on visual menu app”
- OrdersUp — Lets pubs and venues take table orders through a personalised QR code page with printable table cards and custom themes.“We made an app for a friends party and now”
- VenueTap POS — Runs point-of-sale orders, payments, kitchen display, menus and sales reports across multiple synced terminals.“I built a free POS system for restaurants and small businesses looking for feedback”
- CRAV — Lets groups pick a restaurant by browsing food photos together instead of reading menus.“I built CRAV to help groups decide where to eat. Now I’m realizing I actually have to go talk to strangers.”
- WhatToOrder — Ranks dishes on American chain restaurant menus against a typed request like "something spicy" and assembles a meal order from the top matches.“Testing out Jev - Pick what you can order at American diners”
- YUMI — Lets groups swipe on food dishes like a dating app and matches on what everyone likes.“what are you eating today? i made a ‘tinder’ for food because i got tired of deciding where to eat”
- Food With Friends — Lets a group swipe through the same nearby restaurant deck in a shared room and ranks options by combining each person's prior swipe list with their votes.“I built an app to solve "well where do you want to eat?"”
- Eatinerary — Keeps a personal diary of restaurants and individual dishes with photos, ratings, notes, and searchable by city, cuisine, or dish.“I built a restaurant diary app because I kept forgetting what I ordered”
- Lists food-related businesses in a specific niche on a directory website, with data gathered from Google Maps.“I Scaled My Directory To ~5000 Visitors a Month. Ask Me Questions”
- Served — Lets restaurant guests select their allergies on an interactive digital menu that live-filters the dishes safe to eat.“I built an allergy-menu SaaS, but it’s my first product and I have zero track record. How do I convince a restaurant owner to trust me?”
- BreWorld — Lets users post photos of their coffee and browse nearby coffee drinkers' photos to discover coffee shops.“my coffee spot app grew from 87 to 199 users between last month and this one, i am the only happy user”
- BiteVault — Turns food videos saved from TikTok and Instagram into pins on a personal map and checks saved recipes for gluten and other allergens.“I built a map for every food place I save on TikTok and Reels, because the saved folder was useless for finding them. Extracts Recipes,”
- ChefIntel — Generates an AI-written restaurant consulting report from a restaurant's menu and cost figures, with recipe costing and menu engineering breakdowns.“Built an AI tool that turns a restaurant's numbers into a full consultant-grade report — menu engineering, margins, staffing, HACCP. Looking for feedback.”
- Been There — Lets people rate restaurants with three choices and share places on a map with friends they follow.“I built a social map that replaces restaurant star ratings with recommendations from friends”
- CleanPlate — Makes state restaurant food inspection records searchable, showing each establishment's current grade and past inspections with links to the original reports.“Making Food Grade records more accessible”
- Helps people plan and start coffee shops.“Call for help”
- Gourmet CRM — Syncs restaurant orders, kitchen, delivery, staff, inventory and analytics in real time across one system.“Built a real-time restaurant OS for orders, kitchen, & inventory — would love your feedback on the demo!”
- SeatSwiper — Monitors restaurant booking sites for a requested date, party size and time window, then books an opening automatically on the user's own account.“SeatSwiper - watches restaurant booking sites and grabs the table the second one opens”
Most discussed
- Turns restaurant menus into browser-based augmented reality menus with life-size 3D dish models, voice search and table-side ordering.“I built a fully automated AR menu system for restaurants”
- TheKetchupp AI — Lets restaurant guests order food through a conversational AI assistant instead of browsing menus.“What's the coolest thing you've built (or are building) recently?”
- Happy Toy Scout — Maps nearby Happy Meal toy sightings reported by users and lets people add their own.“I built a Happy Meal toy finder for my daughters. 157k people used it in 15 days.”
- Lists food-related businesses in a specific niche on a directory website, with data gathered from Google Maps.“I Scaled My Directory To ~5000 Visitors a Month. Ask Me Questions”
- Manages a cafe's menu, inventory, POS orders, WhatsApp ordering, PlayStation session billing, and daily revenue and cash settlement tracking.“I Built a Coffee Shop Management System for My Brother’s Cafe Using Vibe Coding. Looking for Advice and Open-Source Tools.”
- Turns restaurant and cafe places mentioned in forwarded social media videos and links into verified pins on a personal map.“I kept DMing myself Instagram reels of cool restaurants and never visited a single one. So I built a fix.”
- Presents a bakery website with a menu, product listings, a shopping cart, and a table booking page.“Made a bakery website, sharing it here, let me know what you think”
- Tempo — Shows crowdsourced live wait times for restaurants, bars, and cafés based on recent user check-ins.“I kept driving to restaurants only to hit a 40-minute line, so I built a live wait-times app”
- FastQRMenu — Lets restaurant customers scan a per-table QR code to view the menu and place orders from their phones, with orders routed to a dashboard or WhatsApp.“Built for One Restaurant”
- Biteful — Scans a restaurant menu and highlights the options that best match the user's dietary preferences.“i made an app to rank the healthiest options on a menu”