u/forkroads1

I always watch food vlogs, save nothing, then completely blank on the places when I'm actually hungry and out. So I've been building a little tool for myself that reads a YouTube food video and pins the restaurants to a map with the dish and location.

Full honesty so I'm not breaking any rules: the tool uses AI to pull the info, and it's my own project, still rough and free while I test it. Not trying to advertise, I mostly want to know if this is useful to other people who watch these videos or if it's just me.

Ran it on a Manila street food video and it pulled the names of the restaurants that were mentioned.

Question for the group: when you watch a food vlog and see a place you want to try, how do you actually remember it later? Screenshot? Notes app? Or do you just lose it like I did? Genuinely curious if the forgetting thing is common or if I'm the only one.

I always watch food vlogs, save nothing, then completely blank on the places when I'm actually hungry and out. So I've been building a little tool for myself that reads a YouTube food video and pins the restaurants to a map with the dish and location.

Full honesty so I'm not breaking any rules: the tool uses AI to pull the info, and it's my own project, still rough and free while I test it. Not trying to advertise, I mostly want to know if this is useful to other people who watch these videos or if it's just me.

Ran it on a Manila street food video and it pulled the names of the restaurants that were mentioned.

Question for the group: when you watch a food vlog and see a place you want to try, how do you actually remember it later? Screenshot? Notes app? Or do you just lose it like I did? Genuinely curious if the forgetting thing is common or if I'm the only one.

Built for anyone who watches food and travel videos on YouTube and then can never remember the spots they wanted to try. That was me. I'd finish a Mark Wiens video with five places I meant to look up and lose all of them by the next day.

You paste a YouTube food video and it pulls out the restaurants with photos, map pins, and the dish, and saves them to your own food map organized by city. The list is just there when you actually travel.

It's a website, so nothing to install and no waitlist. Email sign-up and you're in. Free for testers, no card, nothing to pay, I'm not even set up to take payments yet. I just want real people using it and telling me what breaks.

I ran it on a Mark Wiens Chicago street food tour and it pulled the classics: Byron's Hot Dogs, Johnnie's Beef, Jim's Original, Harold's Chicken Shack, Lem's Bar-B-Q, all pinned to a map.

If you're someone who watches this kind of video, I'd especially love your take on:

- Onboarding: is it clear what to do first?

- Throw one of your own favorite food videos at it, does the extraction hold up?

- Would you actually keep using it, why or why not?

Comment here and I'll help you get set up.