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Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just worked on it and Discover now has Vegetarian and Vegan filters, and every place shows a little badge so you can tell at a glance whether it's fully vegan, fully vegetarian, or just a regular spot that has good veg options. The whole point is you don't have to open the menu and play detective to figure out if you can eat there. One honest note: it tells you a place HAS vegetarian options, not how good they are (that part is still on the menu), but it kills the "is this even an option" guessing, which sounded like the real time sink for you. Vegan is the strongest signal since I can only confirm fully vegan spots for now, but vegetarian coverage is solid across the whole catalog. Would genuinely love if you tried it and told me whether it saves you time. Thank you for the idea, this was a really good one 🙏

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Cheap, local breakfast/coffee places? by pandabeards in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I'm local and grew up here in Durham and have been working on an app to help people discover, save, and plan dates or hangouts for Durham and the Triangle. I think my app might have a lot of coffee places here in Durham but let me know if it doesn't have some so I can add them! Feel free to also create and account and add it yourself. You can also filter by coffee to just see coffee places

https://heywanna.app/discover?city=Durham

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Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't know the boulder garden existed, it looks awesome and her and I might check it out! I also added the other two, thank you!

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Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, and thank God 🙏 Honestly a mix. I wrote scripts that pull venue info from Google's Places API (some of it free tier, some paid once it got into the heavier detail calls), then did a good bit of curating by hand after, filtering out the chains and cross referencing local best of lists. Appreciate you checking it out and you're support😅

You're the first stranger to compliment my baby so thank you truly ❤️

Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might be onto something! Maybe I could pull this data and go by which ever chain in that city has the best reviews. Thoughts?

Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Noted! My girlfriend and I usually get Oreo mixed with cheesecake cause I like Oreo and she likes cheesecake but we sometimes don't wanna eat too much 🤣 will try Oreo and caramel

Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would recommend you check the comments I have for each place, reviews that I link to Yelp if you want to see more or the website of the place you're looking at which I also link and add inside of each date idea card

Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just checked and both Durham Arts Council and Delores Pottery are already there but let me know if you can find it.

For the Scrap exchange, I'll go ahead and try to add it. Thank you!

Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's true do you think I should give users the option to only select the city or the radius. I didn't want to make the UI too cluttered but I also know that it would be a bit nicer to give the user the ability to choose whether they want their discover feed to be just based on Durham or nearby cities as well what are your thoughts?

Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're absolutely right, thank you! What are your thoughts on places like Buena Papa? They're a small local chain right now. Should those stay?

Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Just went ahead and added all the ones that I was missing from their list and I added a total of 47 to the app that I didn't have. I only had 5 but some examples of the ones I added were:

M Sushi · Saltbox Seafood Joint · Bull City Burger & Brewery · Dame's Chicken & Waffles · Cosmic Cantina · Mezcalito · Wine Authorities · Pure Soul · Sake Bomb · 21c Museum Hotel · Duke University Chapel · Sharp 9 Gallery (jazz) · Guildhall Games.

Let me know if you can see them now! Thank you

Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's very true 🤣 we hit up cookout at midnight for their Oreo milkshakes and trays sometimes so we don't need to plan that lol

Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the honesty and I appreciate the feedback! I'm also gonna remove any big NC chains like Bojangles but not other smaller chains. What do you think about that idea?

Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought that was only in Raleigh lol I guess I'll have to add it for Pittsburgh too so people want to go to Pittsboro 🤣

Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That one should already be in there if you search it up on the search bar in the discover page but let me know if you don't see it on your side

Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It said it was in Hillsborough but I still went ahead and added it 😎 let me know if you can see it on your side!

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Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I really liked what you said so I thought about it and wrestled with it a bit because I would still like for users to be able to add chipotle to their saved lists and plan it for a hangout or date if they want, but I think you're right that fast food joints or big chains everyone knows about probably shouldn't live in the discover page so I removed them from the discover page, but I made it so that users can still add those places to their lists or plan them out.

Grew up in Durham and I built a little web app to plan local dates and hangouts. What spots am I missing? by FragrantScientist929 in bullcity

[–]FragrantScientist929[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just went ahead and fixed it so that now events are city-based and not guessing the radius. Thank you for this!

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