CheapFoodMap
A map of good meals under $10
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I was recently laid off after 18 years, and gave myself 100 days to build soething useful in public. CheapFoodMap is a crowdsourced map of meal under $10, excluding franchises, local good eats only.It's inspried by 거지맵 (Begger's Map) a Korean crowdsourced map students use to find cheap eats.Ocverage is heaviest in Texas, since I live in Dallas, but have 1200 meals across 15 US cities. Seed data came from Google Review, 4.2 star or higher with at least 500 reviews, and verified price under $10 per menu item.Things I would love feedback on : whether the price-freshness model makes sense, and what would make you trust the price on a site like this. How to encourage people to update prices, since inflation is making food price very frequent.https://cheapfoodmap.comAny and all suggestion will be super helpful. Thank you!
HN · launched Jul 29, 2026 · 287 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: restaurant discovery and guide directories · 95 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▲ +89% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Retail & commerce
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 95 launches in restaurant discovery and guide directories →
Could you build this?
Yes A crowdsourced directory of cheap meals is a classic CRUD application with Mapbox/Google Maps integration, user submissions, and basic upvoting.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Maps for food search, 7/11, MakanIndex.com, Facebook groups/Buy Nothing groups
Concerns raised: Not available in Europe, Price ceiling ($10) doesn't reflect actual value vs filler, Random restaurant fees and surcharges, Google trademark/name legal risks, US-only service not clearly communicated
Feature requests: Increase price ceiling parameter beyond $10-$14, Clearer communication of geographic availability, Restaurant sponsor/partnership program
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 210 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 211 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 258 days after the earliest competitor.
- A food guide that ignores Google and Yelp ratings · hn · 2025-12-16 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Naverny Borshchu · ph · 2026-09-13 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- A website that tracks US food prices every day · hn · 2026-09-21 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- mcd-budget-meal · github · 2026-10-11 · 234 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- FoodBites · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- PantryPalz · ph · 2026-10-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- FoodSpotter · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- checkersmenuu.com · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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