Built this app because I could never understand fancy restaurant menu words

2 MikeyLi 2 8/30/2025, 8:46:54 AM foodielens.app ↗

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MikeyLi · 7h ago
Every time I travel (or even go to a fancy restaurant at home), I stare at menus like they’re cryptic puzzles. No pictures, lots of foodie jargon I don’t get… and I usually just guess and hope for the best .

So for the past year, I’ve been hacking away at my first big project: FoodieLens

It’s a web app where you just snap a photo of the menu, and it will:

Show you real images of the dishes

Translate foreign menus

Generate AI images if the original dish photos are hard to find

Link each dish to a quick Google search for context

Save menus for later

I wanted it to be super simple: no credit card needed, just free credits to start.

Would love feedback from you all — especially:

Does this solve a real pain point you’ve had?

What’s the #1 feature you’d want added before you’d actually use it?

dtagames · 2h ago
Why would someone login to even see what it's about? Hard pass.