CheapFoodMap
A map of good meals under $10
Details
- External ID
- 49100043
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- CheapFoodMap
- Website domain
- cheapfoodmap.com
- Launched
- July 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 287
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.983273596176822
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 8, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 8, 2026, 8:28 p.m.
Description
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!
Enrichment
- Theme
- meal planning and food discovery
- Vertical
- Retail & commerce
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- map of affordable meals
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 93 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 94 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 258 days after the earliest competitor.
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- 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
- FoodBites · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Been There, 8 That · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- UK Butchers Meat Price Tracker · hn · 2025-12-13 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- PizzaRank · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- LongHorn Steakhouse Menu · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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- No other launches for this product.
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