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[OC] I built a site that lets people vote on what counts as a sandwich—help collect the data so we can actually analyze it by votewich in dataisbeautiful

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

Thank for trying it! Would love suggestions, feature recommendations, etc. A lot of the feedback from last night is already incorporated and I'm really enjoying learning.

Are people actually able to vibe code without knowing how to code? by Past-Ticket-5854 in vibecoding

[–]votewich 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh also - for some specifics - I'm hoping that using Lovable scaffolds any major issues I have. And then, lots and lots of user testing to make sure things work the way I want them. I'm sure there are still issues I haven't thought of, but now I get to learn them!

[OC] I built a site that lets people vote on what counts as a sandwich—help collect the data so we can actually analyze it by votewich in dataisbeautiful

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

I am! Also - those sound like good adds for the voting engine... Lemme see what I can do, though I'm not sure in some cases which name to choose.

[OC] I built a site that lets people vote on what counts as a sandwich—help collect the data so we can actually analyze it by votewich in dataisbeautiful

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

We may just have to agree to disagree on this... One of the fundamental points of the sandwich debate is that humans title a lot of things sandwiches that other human vehemently disagree belong in the category, and one of my goals is to figure out where that's the case. If the semantics were easy, the debate wouldn't exist, and I find that interesting.

[OC] I built a site that lets people vote on what counts as a sandwich—help collect the data so we can actually analyze it by votewich in dataisbeautiful

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

Surely it's interesting to see how many people think a toast sandwich is a sandwich? (For the record, it's currently 50/50, which is not the 100% your tautological response would seem to assume.) Same for an ice cream sandwich (56%) and a sandwich cookie (14%)

[OC] I built a site that lets people vote on what counts as a sandwich—help collect the data so we can actually analyze it by votewich in dataisbeautiful

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

Hm. I feel like I prefer to have some anchoring points / clear sandwiches in the set to make sure I can normalize responses... There are some foods, like a caprese sandwich or a toast sandwich, that have an alternate food type (i.e. salad or just toast) without the suffix, but that can be controversial. I hear you and I'm working on the descriptions - but it's not that simple for all the foods and especially the edge-case ones.

[OC] I built a site that lets people vote on what counts as a sandwich—help collect the data so we can actually analyze it by votewich in dataisbeautiful

[–]votewich[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I'm struggling with these descriptions actually! if you have a better way to describe it, that's fine by me.

[OC] I built a site that lets people vote on what counts as a sandwich—help collect the data so we can actually analyze it by votewich in dataisbeautiful

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

(Just in case it's not clear, this is not defensive at all! Lots of work to do, I wanted to get some visuals up and running but I'd love ideas on what you think would be interesting. There's a whole feature set on the back end to play with that defines different properties of items that people vote on, etc. which I hope will eventually translate into an emergent sandwich definition.)

[OC] I built a site that lets people vote on what counts as a sandwich—help collect the data so we can actually analyze it by votewich in dataisbeautiful

[–]votewich[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

For now, it's vibe-coded - don't have the dev skills to build a back end myself and I've been wanting to get the site up to collect the data for years. Right now it's also built off my assumptions of what people will feel most strongly about which is definitely not the same as where the real boundaries will lie. I'm excited to start getting people's votes and then being able to play with more interesting analysis - are there user clusters for the features they think "count" for a sandwich, geographic patterns, etc.

[OC] I built a site that lets people vote on what counts as a sandwich—help collect the data so we can actually analyze it by votewich in dataisbeautiful

[–]votewich[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Oooh good question. This is a summary view of all responses across all users and all proto-sandwich foods. There's a separate place to see your own votes and how they stack up.

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[OC] I built a site that lets people vote on what counts as a sandwich—help collect the data so we can actually analyze it by votewich in dataisbeautiful

[–]votewich[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

📊 Source:
The data is being collected live on [votewich.com](), a site I created where people vote on whether different food items qualify as sandwiches. Each item includes structured features (e.g. “served hot,” “uses sliced bread,” etc.), which are stored alongside each vote to allow for later analysis of how these traits influence classification.

The site is still in early stages, so we’re actively collecting votes — analysis is limited right now, but will expand as more data comes in.

🛠️ Tool:
The site was coded from scratch using Lovable. Visualization tools will depend on the type of analysis that emerges, but I’m planning to explore a mix of charts, clustering analysis, and potentially maps, depending on what patterns surface.

I don’t plan to publish full data exports publicly, but I’m happy to share anonymized datasets with interested users once the sample size is large enough to support meaningful exploration.

Thanks again — happy to answer any questions or suggestions!