Sip Savvy
Find Hidden Gems on Any Wine List
86 followers
Find Hidden Gems on Any Wine List
86 followers
Stop panic-ordering the second cheapest bottle. 🍷 Sip Savvy is your pocket sommelier that instantly analyzes restaurant wine lists to find the best value bottles. How it works: 📸 Snap a photo • 🧠 AI cross-references retail prices • ✅ See "Value Scores" to spot gems and avoid markups. Features: Smart OCR on any menu • Real markup analysis per bottle • Personalized recommendations. Drink better. Spend smarter. Dine with confidence.
👋 Hi Product Hunt!
I’m Taylor. After 10+ years as a product engineer in tech, I’m used to optimizing everything. But whenever I went out to dinner, I found myself stuck with two terrible options when the wine list arrived:
Blindly trust the waiter: Which usually meant getting recommended a "house favorite" that was actually a mediocre bottle with a 400% markup.
Do the manual labor: Spend the first 15 minutes of the meal ignoring my date/friends while I furiously Googled individual bottles under the table to check ratings and MSRP.
I wanted a third option. I wanted the data without the homework.
So, I built Sip Savvy with my friend @luke_mulcahy.
We didn't want another app that scans labels (useless until you order). We built an OCR engine that reads the menu.
How it solves the dilemma:
Snap: Take a photo of the list.
Analyze: We cross-reference menu prices against real-world retail data instantly.
Decide: We highlight the "Hidden Gems"—bottles with great ratings and fair pricing—so you can order confidently in seconds, not minutes.
We’d love your feedback on:
The Scan Accuracy: Try it on a photo of a menu from your camera roll.
The "Value Score": Does knowing the markup change what you would order?
@luke_mulcahy and I will be here all day answering questions. Can’t wait to hear what you think! 🍷
"Stop panic-ordering the second cheapest bottle." - haha, was just about to write a joke about that when realised you already have that as part of your description. 😄
Does your app also matches food with wine?
Wow, Sip Savvy is exactly what I need! Love the markup analysis feature. Does the AI account for vintage variations when calculating the value score? Super cool product!
The 'furiously Googling under the table' visual is so relatable. 😂
Love that you focused on OCR for the menu rather than just scanning labels—that's the real friction point before ordering. Congrats on the launch, Taylor!
This is actually really lovely =) I’d 100% keep this on my phone as a go-to when I’m staring at a wine list and feeling lost
Cool app @tayrob5 will definetly give it a spin this christmas.
All the best this launch! Just don't go too hard as I see you're only 4 places behind my own launch 😱
@tayrob5 all good! Hope you make it to the top 10!