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# System prepended metadata

title: Nomsters => Nomstrosities

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# Nomsters => Nomstrosities

## MVP
- Content (blog)
    - Food in Film (Photography)
    - Podcast stuff
- Map (follow foodie themed paths)
    - Burger Tour (red line on the map)
    - Taco Tour (green line on the map)
    - Cocktail Tour
- Trends to help us lean into
    - What's the craziest craze right now?
    - Web scraping
    - Top 20 lists
- Grand openings (?)
    - Web scraping popular food media (Eater, Serious Eats, Timeout) to accumulate info on new trends/openings, etc
- Instragram Integration to provide "breadcrumbs"
    - "Come to our site to get a profile of the place you see here"
- Calendar of food events

## Other tiers
- Meetups around special events
- User engagement in terms of "upvoting" places or dishes
    - Create a page of rankings
- Login for people to "infuence" and also have a history of places
- How to standardize menu formatting
    - Restaurants should be comfortable "registering" with us so they can provide us with their food offerings so that for users, they can save the actual stuff they ate from the restaurant

## Technologies and Implementation (Can change)
- [Typescript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/)
- [GraphQL](https://graphql.org/) ([Apollo](https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/) (client-side) + [Prisma](https://www.prisma.io/) (server-side))
- React ([Next.js](https://nextjs.org/))
    - Be open to Gatsby
- AWS (Serverless.com)
- DB: [Aurora](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/) or PostgreSQL
- CSS-in-JS
    - [Styled Components](https://styled-components.com/)
    - Emotion.sh
- Documentation: HackMD
- [Storybook.js](https://storybook.js.org/)
- [Figma](https://www.figma.com/)

## Later Tier Technologies
- [Docker](https://www.docker.com/)
- [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/)

### Implementation Details
- User facing site
- "Admin dashboard" ([Strapi](https://strapi.io/))

## Research
- What is missing?
    - A lifestyle; an experience
- What kind of data?
- Food festivals
- How can we get data on hashtags related to food?

## Priorities May 2nd
- How can we get data on hashtags related to food?
- Research Strapi
- Talk about design
    - [Dribbble](https://dribbble.com/)
    - [Awwwards](https://www.awwwards.com/)
    - [Behance](https://www.behance.net/galleries/product-design)

## Other Resources
- [Chowbus](https://www.chowbus.com/)
- [Foursquare: City Guide](https://foursquare.com/city-guide)
- [Swarm](https://www.swarmapp.com/)
