Forget finding 'the one', this app is going to find you lunch and we all know food > people.
Foodie is the brainchild of developers Jeonguk Lee and John Kim who showed off their app at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 this weekend and what it plans to do will solve the age old problem of 'what should I eat?' for users everywhere. And it works just like Tinder, but instead of hooking you up with your dream man/woman, you get sweet sweet food instead.
Foodie operates using photos culled from the internet and reviews from Yelp, allowing users to swipe right on local food establishments that take their fancy and save them in a list for now and later, with the goal being to help people figure out what and where they want to eat but also to figure out which restaurants are the hottest places to go to there and then.
“We want to know where other people are around the location and then be able to give them what’s hot now,” they told TechCrunch. “That’s something Yelp doesn’t do; it shows you what was hot before, but it doesn’t show what’s trending now based on the weather. If it’s super hot, ice cream could be trending, for example.”
Foodie was shown as part of Hackathon at the event, so it's a little bit away from being available to download but you have to admit the idea is inspired. Although we could end up in a spiral of food, swiping right for pizza, burritos et al. to infinity. Now they just need to add on drone delivery and we'll never have to get up ever again.
Via TechCrunch
