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Food Discovery App

ClientPre-launch startup · name withheld
CategoryTaste matching · Mobile
StatusPre-MVP technical plan

The idea: instead of scrolling reviews, you answer a short taste quiz, and the app builds a personal taste profile. It then recommends restaurants that actually fit you, and tells you why. Log the meals you eat, and the profile keeps getting sharper. There's a group mode too, for the eternal "where should we all eat?" problem.

The plan turns that idea into an implementation-ready brief: data model, system architecture, technology choices and a phased roadmap a team can build against. The hardest problem isn't the tech: it's making recommendations feel good on day one, before the app knows much about anyone. The design tackles that head-on, so the first impression works even with a brand-new user.

The engineering philosophy throughout is deliberately lean: one codebase for iOS and Android, an architecture that can grow into scale later without a rewrite, and a validation phase with real users before production code gets written.

From taste quiz to table
01Short taste quiza few minutes, once
02Taste profilepersonal to you
03Matched restaurantswith reasons why
04Log the mealphoto & rating
05Profile sharpensbetter every visit

Every recommendation explains itself, and every logged meal makes the next one better.

Stack & tools
React Native (Expo)PostgreSQLRecommendation designGroup modePhased roadmap
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