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24 alternatives to I built an app that uses math to find restaurants nearby the sweet spot
I recently built an iOS app called Settld: Group Restaurant Finder that helps friends decide where to meet by finding restaurants that are roughly equally far from everyone’s location, and displaying information about them. We’ve all been in chaotic group chats where no one can agree on where to eat — this app cuts through that by calculating a “sweet spot” for the group. For 2 people, it’s the midpoint. For 3 people, it’s the circumcenter. For 4–6 people, it uses a minimum enclosing circle approach (Welzl’s algorithm). It then shows the top 15 nearby options so there’s no more “where do we…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hello HN, My girlfriend and I waste too much energy to decide what to eat. Every day, we would text each other, "what do we eat tonight" messages, and go over options and many times spend too much time on deciding. I am an indie dev and created this app to solve my own problem: decide with my girlfriend what to eat for dinner. Initially, I created a simple app, in which we listed all the recipes we ever prepared, and it would propose randomly three of them. We would then choose together one of them. This app[0] turned into a tinder-like app, which would propose every day a set of recipes to…
2024 · whatdinner.com · its alternatives →
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Foursquare 11▲270Find the best places everywhere, every time with place pages
2017 · foursquare.com · its alternatives →
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Your daily recommendation is a tap away
2024 · findmearestaurant.com · its alternatives →
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EatUps▲70Find a place to eat with friends, without the frustration
2023 · eatups.app · its alternatives →
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Swipe, vote & pick restaurants with your friends
2017 · ktchup.com · its alternatives →
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Unforkd▲24Tinder for restaurants — swipe together, eat together
May 2026 · unforkd.com · its alternatives →
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The latest macOS offers the world’s best way to play — and add to — your collection of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, audiobooks, and more.
2015 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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My free to use app lets you schedule your favorite recipes with a few clicks
2024 · simplechore.xyz · its alternatives →
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I built this because I see that grocery savings are achievable in NYC. People usually just go to the store they're used to going to, and it's rarely worth the effort of combing through card cashback, weekly coupons, CPG rebates. Most people leave real money on the table by not stacking them, and even more don't even know that these deals are out there.... so I built a way to automate it. You can use it for free, no login, currently NYC-only with ~690 stores. I built it so that you just search whatever you want (use commas if you want to search multiple items). Or - use the AI tool to help…
Jul 2026 · sbnyc.app · its alternatives →
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We are excited to announce the launch of DealUps (www.dealups.mobi), a free iPhone app that lets you find deals you can use right here, right now. DealUps delivers hyperlocal, geographically targeted deals for over 18,000 restaurants and daily deal sites such as Groupon based on your current location. We leverage your current location and deliver passive notifications of relevant nearby deals, regardless of what you happen to be doing on your phone at the time. Download DealUps for free here: http://bit.ly/dealups In conjunction with our launch, we're giving away $250,000 in Restaurant.com…
2011 · bit.ly · its alternatives →
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Discover restaurants together
2025 · getsawa.app · its alternatives →
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Swipe right on a restaurant. You're going there. 😤
Jul 2026 · hangerissues.app · its alternatives →
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Finally Pick a Restaurant Together—Swipe, Match, Enjoy
2025 · eating.twsp.app · its alternatives →
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RestoMap▲5Find 40 Halal & Homemade restaurants near you — for free!
May 2026 · keopsprojects.com · its alternatives →
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A few years ago I wrote a crawler to fetch all NYC menus. I wanted to prove that many specific dishes can't be found in NYC restaurants. After more than two years that I had forgotten about the project I decided to clean it up, deal with the css, and put it online. The number of interesting dishes that can be found is actually quite surprising. The backend is written using nodejs without any framework (no db, just a bunch of in memory DS) and vanilla js/html/css for the frontend.
2022 · c.bitlet.org · its alternatives →
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I grew tired of being front-run by people (or perhaps other bots) who do not sleep. So I built a better bot and open-sourced it to level the playing field. Within a week I had a reservation for four at my restaurant of choice. Feedback welcome, enjoy!
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Motivated by the problem of finding the most efficient place to eat along the way. Hope it can help in many other occasions as well.
2015 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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