I've been building a vegan places directory (shared in this post) and enough people asked for an app that it's finally live on iOS and Android. It's a small independent project run by 2 people. If you've used HappyCow it lives in that world, but the focus is a bit different:

• Vegan-oriented, not vegetarian. A place with no vegan options doesn't get listed, and 100% vegan spots are flagged separately from mostly-vegan, vegan-friendly, and "only 1-2 vegan options" - so you know before you go.
• Free, no ads, nobody can pay to rank higher. Businesses can claim and manage their own page for free.
• Open and community-correctable: much of the data is OpenStreetMap + other open sources, so if a spot's missing you can add it, and if something's mislabelled or mis-categorised you can help me fix it from its page in one tap.
• It's more than a map - there are free vegan tools in there too (barcode scanner, menu/ingredients scanner, and more).

Honest about the state: it's still growing, some cities are thin, and since a lot of the data comes from OSM/open sources the quality isn't perfect yet.

Looking forward to your feedback and criticism - be brutal.

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Hey folks - spent the last few months building PlantsPack, an independent vegan discovery platform. No investors, no ads, no tracking beyond what's needed.

The thing I actually want feedback on is the city scoring system rather than "check out my site." Every city with ≥5 vegan / vegan-friendly places gets a letter grade A–F based on four dimensions:

• Accessibility - places per capita (adjusted for city size)
• Choice - how many distinct cuisines / categories are represented
• Variety - mix across restaurants, shops, stays
• Quality - review ratings + verification status

The goal is to answer "where should I travel / move to next?" at a glance, and to make it visible which cities desperately need more contributors.

Current coverage: ~37K places across 177 countries, mostly Europe + N. America + SE Asia. A lot of cities still score D/F because nobody's added the places yet - that's a data problem, not a "these cities are terrible" problem, and I'm trying to be honest about that in the UI.

What I'd love this community's take on:

• Does your city show up? Does the grade feel right vs. your lived experience?
• Is the fully-vegan vs. vegan-friendly split a useful distinction, or do you want more granularity (e.g., "has vegan options but the staff sigh when you ask")?
• What would make this more useful than HappyCow or Google Maps for you? (I'm not pretending to be better on coverage - but I am looking for more pain points to fix)

Happy to answer anything about the tech, the methodology, or the data. Source code is closed for now but the data model is open to discussion.

https://www.plantspack.com/