Swipe through photos until you\u00a0find what you’re looking for\u2014a great meal.<\/p>\n
Montreal food and travel writer Amie Watson launched Feed Me, a Tinder-like mobile app that lets users browse through images of restaurants and their food to choose where to eat.<\/p>\n
Feed Me uses open source data from Yelp’s API to locate what restaurants and bars are closest to a user.\u00a0The app pulls in more suggestions\u00a0as the user swipes\u00a0right, thereby turning down the initial batch of restaurant selections and letting users continue their\u00a0search. It\u00a0also incorporates restaurant ratings, reviews and photos from Yelp.<\/p>\n
Feed Me\u00a0was created to help users quickly find nearby restaurants and make a decision on where to go fast. With a\u00a0swiping interface, the app\u00a0wants to turn looking for a place to eat\u00a0from an often frustrating task\u00a0into a\u00a0convenience.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe goal is to make reading the reviews fun even if you\u2019re not hungry, like when you\u2019re waiting for the bus or metro or at home on the couch,” said Watson, who wrote more than 1,500 Montreal reviews for the app.<\/p>\n
Watson also self-funded the beta version of Feed Me\u00a0before receiving startup financing from\u00a0Futurpreneur Canada\u00a0and the\u00a0BDC\u00a0for development.<\/p>\n
Feed Me\u00a0can also be used to search for take-out, food delivery, grocery stores and even butcher shops. Favourites are saved into a top 10 list while rejects are cycled back into rotation for future searches.<\/p>\n
First launched in Canada, the Montreal-based app includes thousands of food-offering joints in over 30 countries. The app was dreamed up at\u00a0Yelp’s Montreal hackathon in 2014 where it was a finalist.<\/p>\n
F<\/a>eed Me<\/a>\u00a0is free to download and available for both iOS and Android\u00a0devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Swipe through photos until you\u00a0find what you’re looking for\u2014a great meal. Montreal food and travel writer Amie Watson launched Feed Me, a Tinder-like mobile app that lets users browse through images of restaurants and their food to choose where to eat. Feed Me uses open source data from Yelp’s API to locate what restaurants and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76241,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[959,30,304],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-88658","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","hentry","category-News","tag-feedme","tag-montreal","tag-yelp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/88658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/76241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/88658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88658"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=88658"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=88658"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=88658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}