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Would you use a Food Passport?

I love eating. I love going to restaurants of all kind. However, a couple years ago, my wife was diagnosed with a chronic disease that made difficult to just go anywhere.
Even though we started to eat more at home, we want to go out for dinner from time to time. But it was so difficult. All menus were a little difficult to navigate and it was hard to filter out the ingredients that she couldn't have.

Later on, when I tried to do a Keto Diet, I had the same issue. I had to do the task of reading every menu item, and every ingredient, to find something that fit my dietary preferences. It was a lot of work.

Since then, I created a personal Browser Extension that reads menus from Yelp, Toast and some other providers and using AI it finds all the plates we can share together. It also stores the results in case we want to go back to the restaurant again.

So far, I have kept this private. However, I shared this with a friend and he said it might benefit others. So, I am looking for feedback.

Is this something worth making public for others to use?

on January 16, 2023
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    Spend some time thinking about what your goal with publishing the extension would be. If it is your passion, you can just pretty much go for it. If you want to or need to make money from it, look at how many users have the same problems you and your wife has (total addressable market).

    I personally don't need the product, but if you could get a small passionate group of users/customers, it could be a great micro SaaS.