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How to Read a Dosa Menu

Details

External ID
48571192
Source
HN
Company
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Product
How to Read a Dosa Menu
Website domain
dosadecoder.com
Launched
June 17, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
8
Upvotes percentile
0.4952185792349727
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

I love dosa, but have a hard time remembbering what all of the terms mean and how they fit together. "Mysore masala paper roast" is just a stack of independent choices: batter, texture, a smear, a filling, and the word dosa. So I built a little tool that treats every dosa name as a formula. You build an order and see what would arrive, or tap a real menu item and watch its formula light up.I tried to (with Claude's help, obv.) cover naming conventions from Bengaluru, Chennai, and Hyderabad. And, full disclosure, I'm an outsider to this cuisine who just loves food, so there's every possibility I've got mistakes in there, and I'm certainly missing some great dosas. Feedback and corrections are very welcome!

Enrichment

Theme
meal planning and food discovery
Vertical
Media & entertainment
Function
Content generation
Audience
B2C
AI stance
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Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
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Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a straightforward, static single-page educational interactive tool with hardcoded terminology and UI permutation logic.

Discussion

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Launched 183 days after the earliest competitor.

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