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24 alternatives to a16z - The Data Science of Food and Taste

With Ooshma Garg

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. a16z - The Data Science of Food and Taste launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1RA
   Recipelab, a simple nutrition calculator / recipe analyzer▲46

   2016 · recipelab.org · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Making Better Hamburgers With Science: A Conversation With J. Kenji López-Alt▲61

   A chat with the guy behind The Food Lab

   2016 · its alternatives →

3. 3BD
   Bitesnap – Deep Learning Meets Food Logging▲174

   2017 · getbitesnap.com · its alternatives →

4. 4RR
   Recursive Recipes – directions to make food from scratch▲250

   2018 · recursive.recipes · its alternatives →

5. 5EA
   Egeria, a multidimensional spreadsheet for everybody▲113

   2018 · egeria.rocks · its alternatives →

6. 6IB
   I built an AI that recognizes food▲202

   2016 · infino.me · its alternatives →

7. 7
   The Dim Sum Field Guide▲62

   A taxonomy of dumplings

   2016 · its alternatives →

8. 8EI
   eatkeep.io - a natural language food diary▲5

   2015 · eatkeep.io · its alternatives →

9. 9WB
   Wine, Beer or Spirits? An interactive datavis▲5

   2014 · ghostinthedata.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Machine Learning▲77

    A visual guide for beginners

    2017 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Distill▲200

    An interactive, visual journal for Machine Learning research

    2017 · its alternatives →

12. 12BR
    Banana ripeness classifier (ML webapp)▲32

    2019 · isthisbananaripe.ml · its alternatives →

13. 13TA
    TextRazor, a scriptable text mining API▲118

    2013 · textrazor.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Pop Rocks And Home Brew: A Family Tale▲52

    Stories from the future of food.

    2016 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Tasted▲74

    Your voice-enabled cooking companion

    2017 · its alternatives →

16. 16GW
    goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer▲57

    2012 · goodbre.ws · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Tasty 360▲72

    A community for food lovers

    2016 · its alternatives →

18. 18DR
    Discover Recipes by Ingredients▲55

    2014 · skipthepizza.com · its alternatives →

19. 19AA
    An attempt to measure fermentation activity from the sound of bubbles▲27

    2017 · anfractuosity.com · its alternatives →

20. 20GA
    GridCraft, an advanced spreadsheet for data analysis and analytics▲18

    2014 · gridcraft.com · its alternatives →

21. 21RS
    Recipebook – scrape and parse food recipes on the web▲9

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22FI
    Food image to recipes with Deep Learning▲6

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23FN
    FitDishes - nutrition-oriented local search▲5

    2013 · fitdishes.com · its alternatives →

24. 24FA
    Feedbunch, a simple and elegant feed reader▲23

    2015 · feedbunch.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →