Skip the Burger

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What it is

A private memory of what to get and what to skip at the places you go back to. Not a review app, not a social feed. It only has to be right for you.

Your dad is the first user, so it is designed around him: his phone, his eyes, the dozen restaurants the family returns to. You and anyone else in the family can use it too.

I looked at what is already out there. The closest things are a couple of brand new iPhone-only apps with no users yet, and social apps built around sharing. Nothing built the way your dad described it.

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How it works

Three screens.

Here now. Open it at a restaurant and that place is on top. What to get, then what to skip.

A place. Everything noted there, each with the date it was noted, so you can tell how fresh it is. One tap opens the place in Google Maps.

Add. Type the dish, tap GET, FINE, or SKIP, done. A note or a photo if you feel like it.

The fundamentals:

Lives on the phone and backs itself up. Works with no signal, syncs when the signal comes back.
One sign in, once, with the Google or Apple account already on his phone. No password.
Every dish is GET, FINE, or SKIP. A top pick star marks the reason you come to a place. Every place is GO, FINE, or SKIP, optional.
Every note carries its date. Menus and chefs change.
Nearest first. The phone remembers where each place is from the first time you add it there.
A photo of the dish or the menu, one tap, optional.
I'd start with one list each, and you can see the family's side by side, unless you tell me everyone wants one shared list.
Share a whole list with one person, your Spain example. They can read it, not change it.
Your data stays yours. Export everything or delete everything any time. The backup sits on a server I run and nobody reads it.
Installs to the home screen like any app, on iPhone or Android. No app store needed.

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First version, and after

The first version is everything above.

For the first twenty places your family logs, I fix whatever the real world finds. No clock on it. After that, new ideas get grouped into small rounds we agree on ahead of time.

Later, if anyone wants it: autocomplete for place names, an app store listing.

You mentioned a places API. That is out on purpose. It solves finding a restaurant, and this is for the ones he already goes to. Google also does not allow storing what it sends back, so the place name would go blank whenever his phone has no signal. Typing it once and letting the phone remember where it is works offline instead. If that turns out slow, or he gets tired of typing, it goes in.

Not planned: receipt scanning. Hard to build, and he remembers what he ordered an hour ago.

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The name

Skip the Burger, with "Get the wings" as the line under it. Your line. I went through a couple dozen names and this is the one I'd put my name on. Nothing is locked in, so say the word if you want to keep looking.

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Four things before the proposal

Bring them to the call or text them over.

iPhone or Android? Is there a Google or Apple account on it?
How does he keep this list today? Paper, a note on his phone, memory? Can I see it? That list is the spec.
Weekly around home, or mostly on trips?
Reading glasses? Large text turned on? One hand or two?

Pricing follows the call.