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.
Looking at indianapolis this is laughably bad:
Um… no. Not fully vegan. I think they briefly had one option but idk if that’s still a thing, not seeing it on the menu.
… the picture has shrimp in it, so also not 100% vegan
This is one of the few vegan only restaurants in the city and is being done dirty here. There’s no option to report it as actually 100% vegan.
Anyway, the project seems neat and could be useful in the future. When i say laughably bad im referring specifically to the AI model being used to categorize these restaurants. I can only assume it was an AI mislabeling these obvious mistakes
Thanks! This is exactly why I’m looking for a feedback. These are real errors from an automated OSM import that got hallucinated descriptions. We’ve corrected them:
You’re right that the AI classifier made embarrassing mistakes on these. We have a community correction system (tap any place -> “Suggest Correction” -> you can change the vegan level), and we’re running a bulk re-classification pass to catch more of these. Also I’ve added the “Actually 100% vegan” button to the list of available verifications.
Overall I’m improving the scraping and enrichment scripts on daily bases thanks to reports like this. I’m quite sceptical about current data state, so reports like this are extremely helpful! Appreciate it!