Hi Product Hunters! And thank you @kikischirr for hunting us :D
Simply put, Betera is an iOS mobile app that reimagines what a restaurant menu can do.
For hundreds of years, restaurant menus stayed almost exactly the same with text descriptions written on a piece of paper. But today, Betera’s reimagined restaurant menus can play videos of food before you order, keep track of all your food adventures, and even connect you to local and global food lovers.
As some of you may already know, our name Betera means "better" in Old English. We named ourselves that because we believe in reimagining the old things to make them better. The restaurant menu is our first mission, and this Product Hunt launch is our first big step towards rethinking what it can do.
I will be around all day - Can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
When Justin first showed me Betera, which makes menus more delicious with short videos crowdsourced from users, I was on the third day of my diet...
I would highly recommend this app to foodies who want to get the real feel of a meal... but maybe not to dieters, it looks too good!
I'm a visual guy and no longer read the long self-indulging reviews on Yelp. I straight go the photos uploaded by users to get a feel for the food they have. This makes total sense. It's seems to me the times are changing and Yelp is not able to keep up with the change or perhaps they can't cannibalize 10 years of accumulate reviews.
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Amazing approach of rethinking restaurants menus! Congrats Justin and team! ;-)
As huge fan of food visuals and always want to know what something looks like before I order (and often making decisions based on what I see coming out of the kitchen), this is rad.
@mikster you are the very reason why we built Betera! Thanks for comment :D
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So in order for a restaurant to use this, you need both the users to have downloaded the app and the restaurant to have uploaded videos and pictures of all their items to your app in order for the system to work?
@kyle_visner Hi Kyle! We just need the users to download the app, not the restaurants. Restaurant menus get built as the users share their experiences. It's kind of like Instagram for restaurant menus :)
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@justinjaechung Won't you have a lot of incomplete menu's? Especially if restaurants change their menus relatively frequently?
@kyle_visner You are correct. But we came up with 3 solutions for that: 1) Our team manually helps fill out the rest of the menu for the popular restaurants - this will be a paid feature in the future 2) our algorithm shows popular and most recent dishes first, making sure the old ones are hidden at the bottom of the feed 3) users can easily report outdated dishes or incorrect visuals.
@ourielohayon Yes! Restaurant owners can create their account and upload their photos as users. We are also working on added value features for them :)
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