EatRadar
Find food, compare prices, save time & money.
The homepage explains everything about the web application but as a quick explanation, I wanted to provide a quick way for people to find restaurant menus online. You can then filter them by price, category, portion sizes, & more. There are also features for making finding food easier. I really wanted to emphasize having food names, images, store information, store photos, and the price available.
If you've ever wanted to look for a menu in detail but couldn't find that information online easily or at all, I want EatRadar to be the guranteed place to look.
I'm planning to add 5 - 20 stores each day from today.
Some features are still under development.
Toronto Stores only for now. If it succeeds then I will expand.
Hope you guys enjoy.
Started developing for EatRadar in November of last year in 2019. Recently started adding a few new features that I've only added after receiving some feedback.
A common suggestion was to implement reviews into the website so that's what I started developing for. You can actually see an example if you click a menu item. It's not finished but it will be completed tomorrow.
Two other features i've added this week are:
- The ability to view the inside of each store through images
- A calorie counter which is still under development
I've added 65 stores so far. Most of my time has been spent developing so that part has been slow. I also have not publicly launched EatRadar. I am looking to launch after uploading 200 stores. This means each category should have about 13 stores. I will use this as a benchmark and start studying if theres an interest for this product.
I've decided that it was finally time to launch EatRadar. This was a solo project that I worked on since college of 2018 on and off.
I had actually released an application before this called PopularTO meaning Popular Foods in Toronto and that focused on the same concept but it was a very rough draft version of this site. You can see the sample here: https://imgur.com/a/w6WJQDz . I took the same idea and just expanded and re-vamped it into what it is now.
The homepage explains everything about the web application but as a quick explanation, I wanted to provide a quick way for people to find restaurant menus online. You can then filter them by price, category, portion sizes, & more. There are also features for making finding food easier. I really wanted to emphasize having food names, images, and the price available.
The overall roadmap is to expand to other cities if the app sees success. The initial launch city is Toronto where I am from. Toronto is a big city and there is a lot of potential here. Similar to Zomato, I gather information about menus and plug them into my website.
This is more of a soft launch to gather any type of feedback as I am still adding in stores. You can visit the website & app and try it yourself. The experience is slightly different on desktop & mobile until I completely port everything over.
Only "Lunch" section has a few stores. Each day I will add a few stores. 5 stores added a day is 35 stores a week and about 130 a month which is a great pace. Even just 100 stores is more than enough for users to browse and find things to try.
Any feedback is appreciated as that is the focus of launching now!
A lot has happened since my last update on December 26th, 2019. I last spoke about finishing the user account system which is great.
Continuing from there, I implemented a paywall for pro-only features and of course that took some work but it's all sorted now.
Next I proceeded to fix browser cross-compatability bug, and general bugs.
The last major thing was designing and creating a script that would allow users to submit new stores to EatRadar menu. I plan to moderate all submissions to make sure the information is accurate. In order to do so, I do not make the submission live immediately until someone goes over it to confirm it's data.
Here is an image of that submission page that will be available from within the app itself
The last thing to do is fix mobile display and I will be finally ready to launch EatRadar. This has been an interesting journey and I hope that people will give the application a try. I also hope that it will be an app that people will find useful in their day to day.
Today I was able to implement the account system. People can now register and login :) (well after it launches)...
As the days countdown, it's becoming closer and closer to the official launch month. I'm planning to release the application in January. Hopefully by at least Jan 10th.
It's insane seeing my Trello completed list grow and things to do list almost become empty after a whole year of working on it!
The last things to do is mobile optimization, automatic system to insert stores, and notification system. Pretty simple as i've done it before but cheers to that.
Hey posted a few days ago, received feedback and changed the website / upgraded as instructed.
few problems were:
- lack of explaining the application use
- what is the target audience
- non-ssl website
- readability issues
- non-proper cta button
Still facing the lack of email subscriptions issues. Only received 6 email subscriptions even though I had hundreds of unique viewers.
My goal is to help consumers navigate the jam-packed industry of restaurants and decide what is the best food/value for their money.
Question: Is my homepage product / app intention clear? Is it simply the lack of interest from people?
Still planning to launch in January with or without a lot of email list subscribers. If it does not pick up traction post-launch, I will mark it off as a portfolio project and move on.
Hope I could get some more feedback.
website: http://www.eatradar.com
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Wow this is sooooooo much better than my current in-progress landing page
😂. Good job.My first comment, being a bit of a grammar nerd, would be to change the copy: "Find restaurant menus quick and easy" to "Find restaurant menus quickly and easily".
The grammar makes the page come off a bit unprofessional, and would make me less likely to take it seriously as a product.
I would also replace "Pricing" with "Sign Up" or something that invites the user to join instead of bringing up pricing immediately, especially since the main product is free.
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Thank you for the feedback :) I appreciate it.
I updated the grammar.
Also, I changed "get notified" to "sign up" instead.Having the Pricing tab is there mainly because I see it's a scheme that other businesses do. They present the pricing button immediately but it displays both the free and pro options there.
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I can easily understand what your product does. It helps to find a menu of the restaurants.
Feedbacks:
- The "Home" button is not visible in the first section. Either you remove it or move the image slightly
- I almost missed the arrow on the features page
- Footer is missing. Looks incomplete website
- Add favicon if possible (Not a deal-breaker)
- Locations button on the top menu is not working for me.
- A small text change (https://monosnap.com/file/26a4YXd78FyHfAcdJ9GJPhlSvY6sUN)
I hope this helps 😊
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Thank you for the feedback. It really does help :)
Fixed some and I will work on adding the rest.
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I finally finished the landing page for my upcoming web app eatradar. It took a while to get the page working on multiple devices. Without a doubt it still has things to fix.
Let me know what you guys think about the page and idea.
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Hi eatradar,
I like your landing page. Wish you luck with the launch.
ps: I'm working on a platform for developers to showcase their work. I was wondering if you would be interested in showcasing your product? Send me an email to mido@devvle.com if you're up for it!
Hope to hear back from you.
Thanks,
Mido
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Hi,
Congratulations, the page looks great. I would just add the following comments:
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There's a bit of a problem with white text on white background. On my small screen laptop the menu (without scrolling) is over the top of the white plate so that "Features" becomes "eatures". This ties in nicely with your site but not sure if it was intentional!! :)
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The same happens with the word "easier" in your strapline.
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After scrolling down the page, I'm still not sure what your site does. What information are you going to provide me with?
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Last point, I don't think you need to tell the user that the site is easy to navigate and use, just make it so (which it looks to be).
Hope this is useful.
Carl
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Hey. Congrats on getting something out there.
As you asked for feedback, I’m going to give a few thoughts. Intended as constructive and not negatives 😁
(For info I’m viewing on an iPhone XS)
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the headline doesn’t give any clues to what problem you’re trying to solve (or who for). I just know it’s about food. You want to try to and hook me and make me think this is worth reading further because I have that problem / need that thing. Right now I read it and think “so what”.
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The subheading also doesn’t go much further in helping me understand what it is you’re trying to do. Sounds like you’re providing info about food. Is that nutritional info (that was my first thought)? But further down the page you start talking about restaurants so I’m confused. Use the subheading to expand upon the problem you’re solving and the solution you’ve created. Also drop the “welcome to eatradar” it adds no value and takes up valuable space.
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The subheading white text also blends into the white parts of the background image (on mobile) so hard to read.
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The “get notified” link isn’t really clear it’s a link. Use a very obvious button as the call to action. Better still, have the email input right up there. And then again lower down the page. I assume your number 1 goal of this page is to get email addresses so make it easy to get them.
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The “this is how we do it” section text isn’t helpful. At this point I still have no idea what you do. So I could care less how you do it. Talk about the benefits of your app and not the features. What’s in it for the user, how’s it (whatever “it” is) going to change their lives.
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The heading above the opt in gets closer to solving a problem that people have. Work on this and use it as your main heading. I assume your validation feedback is that this is the number one problem?
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Email input “box” isn’t clear. Make it an obvious box
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Won’t get into the pricing too much as not clear what your app does. But try to make these things exciting. And clear why there’s a massive advantage to paying.
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There’s no SSL so I see a big “not secure” in the title on mobile. Might just be the link you included above but make sure http is redirected to https
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I don’t get a sense of who this is for. Different people have different info needs for eating out. For example the person who wants to find the best greasy fried chicken is probably very different to someone who wants healthy eating out. Are you aimed at anyone in particular?
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It may be worth including somewhere higher up the page that this is for residents of Ontario / Toronto or whatever you’re going to start with. When you launch you want every email on your list to be relevant. At this point turn away everyone who isn’t in your first location(s)
That’s a lot. Please don’t take this as negative. Am sure you have a great product - it’s just messaging that could do with some work.
Also, excuse typos.
Let me know if you need clarification on any of the points.
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I appreciate the feedback.
It's a lot of useful constructive feedback given. I wasn't aware that my message was unclear about what am doing or who I am targetting.I am going to revise and further improve the homepage in order to provide more concrete information about what the app is used for / who I am targetting.
Although I would like you to provide more information about:
#10: This app is made for users who want to track their spending, eating habits, and information about food beforeing choosing to eat at a location.
Could you go further about that?
Thanks
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I hope it’s helpful.
Re #10... as the page is right now, it’s broad. It’s for everyone and nobody in particular.
What you want to happen is for someone to come to your page and think “this is exactly the problem I have and it looks like they’ve got a solution for someone like me. I want this app so am going to give them my email address to get notified”
So if you can target to a specific group of people, you will...
a) find it easier to tailor your messaging so that the right person thinks you’re talking to them.
b) you’ll find it easier to find those exact people to “market” your app to.
It sounds like you’re moving in that direction but it needs to be clear in your landing page.
Does that make more sense?
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Congrats, the landing page looks pretty slick. Just took a browse of the page from here in Dublin on my mobile and looks great.
If you want my honest feedback I did take a step back when I saw the first tag line, seeing in bold, words like "All" "Favourite" "One place", my cringe meter did spike before taking the time to read the rest of your site. I wondered are you claiming you already know my favourite foods? Impossible. Or are you saying this tool will have all my favourite foods if a take the time to add them? Well I can say the same about excel..
But when I took the time to read what the tool does I was impressed, looks like you can do some useful comparisons, and maybe save some time by knowing shady they serve and hire it stacks up, and choosing the correct restaurant before you choose to dine..
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Thank you for the feedback. Seems I need to work on the page and make my writing more clear.
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