Restaurant Tracker
My family is full of neurodivergent folks, and each of us has different sensory needs when it comes to food. Keeping track of where everyone likes to eat, and what they like to eat there, is hard. So is remembering the places we all enjoy together.
Restaurant Tracker makes that easy, and a bit fun, by centring everything on a photo. At the table you just snap a quick picture of your food, like in the early days of Instagram. A day, a week or a year later, you pick the photo and the app reads the location from its EXIF data, suggests the restaurants nearby, and asks what the dish was.
Every dish lands on a map of the places you’ve eaten. Tap a pin to see what you had there. The map belongs to the whole household, so each of us can add dishes from our own phone by invitation, and every family’s dishes stay private to them.
It’s the second version of my earlier food-sensitivity app, and it’s in active development. It’s built with Next.js and Material UI, uses the Mapbox Search Box API to find nearby restaurants, and stores the photos and logins in Supabase.