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by planert41 2546 days ago
The food photos on your phone are an untapped treasure trove of verified legit food recommendations.

I'm building an IOS app that uses your food photos to create a social food diary, which when aggregated with posts from your friends, also creates this communal food brain of legit food. I call it friend-sourcing instead of crowd-sourcing.

An example use case is going to Tokyo and trying a bunch of ramen places. You take photos and upload the ones you like onto a geotagged list (called Tokyo Trip).

Your friends are going to Tokyo soon and ask you for ramen recommendations. Instead of creating a google map with pins or a long email lists with no pictures or geo-capabilities, you show/send them the list with the app and it will show them all your ramen photos on a map.

We want to help answer "What is the closest legit food my friends have tried around me?" wherever you are.

We are looking for beta test users and will be launching this year. You just have to love food and like telling your friends where they should go eat (like me). Feel free to reach out at weizou@legitlist.me

Here is the beta test link if anyone is interested: https://testflight.apple.com/join/3Ho5creV