Jakarta

Cheap eats, mapped by the people who eat there.

MendingMap is a map of warungs, warkops and street carts — what they sell, what it costs today, and whether they are open right now.

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Not on the App Store yet — testing in Jakarta.

The MendingMap map over Cikini in Jakarta, with pins showing prices from Rp 6k to Rp 19k

The price is the first thing you see

Every pin carries what a plate actually costs, so you can read a whole neighbourhood at a glance. Pick what you want to spend and the rest steps back.

A selected warung on the map showing Rp 6k and how far away it is

Someone stood there, on a date you can see

Prices come from the board on the wall, and each one says when it was last checked. When two people who have been around say the same new number, it changes.

A warung page showing Rp 8k, when the price was last checked, and the menu

Five seconds, if you want

A review can be words, a five-second clip, or both. Five seconds is the format, not a limit — and nothing is trimmed for you.

How the map gets made

  1. Somebody stands in front of it

    Every place on the map was added by a person who was there. Nothing is scraped, and nothing is licensed from a directory.

  2. It waits before it is believed

    A place someone adds does not appear straight away. It sits in a waiting layer until other people go and confirm they found it too — or until we check it ourselves.

  3. It admits when it is old

    Every price and every opening time carries the day it was checked. As that day gets further away the app says so, instead of showing you a number with a straight face.

What it will not do

It does not rank places for money, invent ratings, or count how many people looked at a warung. If nobody has been recently, it says so instead of guessing.

It is being tested in Jakarta

MendingMap for iPhone is not on the App Store yet. If you are in Jakarta and want to try it early, get in touch.

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