Launching today
Unforkd
Tinder for restaurants — swipe together, eat together
31 followers
Tinder for restaurants — swipe together, eat together
31 followers
Unforkd solves the age old question of where to eat. Create a session, invite your partner(s), and everyone votes yes or no on restaurants near you. When you all match on the same spot, Unforkd lets you know. No more endless back and forth, no more "I don't care, you pick." No accounts, no sign up, no friction. Just open the app, build your lobby, and start voting. Free on iOS and Android.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
This one's been a long time coming.
The idea hit me around 2018-2019 when my wife and I were going out to eat 3-4 nights a week and spending half the night arguing about where to go. Some nights we'd get in the car, drive around for 45 minutes, and end up back home eating whatever was left in the fridge.
I wanted to build something to fix it. One problem — I had zero coding background at the time. So the idea sat there for a couple of years until I took a coding bootcamp in 2021 and built a career as a web developer.
In 2022 my wife and I were in the hospital for the birth of our first child. In the quiet moments between the chaos I opened my laptop and started building. It was a web app. It was honestly a piece of garbage. But it existed.
New baby life took over and the project went dormant. Picked it back up in fall of 2025, rebuilt everything as a native app after beta testing made it clear a web app wasn't going to cut it, and launched on both Apple and Google app stores just a couple weeks ago.
Would love any feedback from this community — on the app, the marketing, anything at all. Happy to answer questions!
The '45-minute drive to nowhere' argument is a universal experience! Swiping for food is the perfect UI for this. Does the app take into account past matches to suggest 'wildcard' restaurants that both users might like based on their history?
@rivra_dev
Glad we're not alone in that experience! That's exactly the frustration that started this whole thing.
Love the idea and it's absolutely something we are considering for the future. Right now Unforkd is a pure, uninfluenced experience. Results are driven entirely by your preferences and nothing else. No black box, no mystery — just real restaurants matched to what you actually want.
Currently the app requires no sign up which keeps the friction low, but we're actively working on user accounts which will should bring match history, saved friend groups, and personalized suggestions. Stay tuned!
Dave and I have been building Unforkd together from early on, and while he's the one turning coffee into code, my focus has been on everything that makes the product actually work for real people.
A lot of my time goes into digging into user behavior and analytics, refining the experience so it feels intuitive and enjoyable — not just functional. I'm constantly asking, "does this really work for people?" — testing flows, challenging assumptions, and helping iterate on features so they align with how users naturally decide where to eat (which, as it turns out, is more emotional and less logical than we think).
On the creative and growth side, I've been working on how we position the app, how we tell the story, and how we get it in front of the right people. Launching here is a big milestone for us, and it's the result of a ton of back-and-forth, small tweaks, and shared excitement about building something genuinely useful.
Would love to hear what you all think — feedback, ideas, and even skepticism are all welcome. We're just getting started!