Aplace

Find best places to dine out

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Find best places to dine out

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Whether you travel, have a special occasion or just want a great meal, Aplace is a trustworthy source of recommendations, from street food to fine dining. We collect them from top local chefs only and it’s fully transparent.

Launch tags:Web App•Travel

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I have a question: How do you recruite the chefs? And do you compensate them? How are you ensuring their (yours) integrity?

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6yr ago

Aplace

Maker

@casinobonustip Thanks for great questions 😊 At the moment we recruit them personally and conduct comprehensive interviews one-to-one. We've started with top chefs and then it was a network effect. We don't compensate them and it was great to find out that almost all the chefs we invited were very supportive and happy to share their favourites publicly (actually they do it offline all the time when asked by the guests or friends). Once interviewed, chef receives credentials to log in and edit / add recommendations, and it's the only way for a chef to appear on the platform. As recommendations are transparent, chefs wouldn't recommend places that they don't find worthwhile as it can affect their reputation.

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6yr ago

Aplace

Maker

Hi PH community, Co-founder of Aplace here. Like many of you, I’m passionate about great food and travel and absolutely sure that life is too short for mediocre experiences. The modern food scene is huge and it’s just getting bigger – so how to decide where to dine out? I spent lots of time creating my own lists, talking to people and analyzing numerous sources of recommendations – and couldn’t find a trustworthy one. So we decided to build Aplace with my co-founders Slava and Andrew. Aplace is a restaurant discovery app based on chefs’ recommendations. Is the chef a good critic? Yes, because she has an advanced palate, eats out a lot, cares about justice in the industry as well as her own reputation, so would never recommend a mediocre place publicly. Chef’s recommendations are easy to relate to - if you like the chef’s own place, you will most likely appreciate her favorites. We’ve started testing this approach collaborating with top chefs in Singapore and the quality of collected recommendations proved it right. We’ve received a very positive feedback from the food enthusiast community and started expanding to San Francisco, Hong Kong is coming next. Currently, Aplace offers more than 800 recommended places for two cities and we’ve just released a personalized recommendation feature. We would greatly appreciate your feedback on the idea and our app.

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6yr ago

Nice, I find consumer review sites are game’d all too often. These reviews have a much higher level of credibility and trust. Good luck?

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6yr ago

Aplace

Maker

Thanks a lot @asd_za 🙏 Indeed, we haven't found a trustworthy source of recommendations ourselves - and gaming was one of the reasons why we couldn't trust consumer review platforms. Then we realised that chefs are great advisors when it comes to food and they are actually being asked for recommendations by their guests all the time, but there was no app to make it available for consumer with convenience of well known UGC sites. So we decided to build one and we're very happy that you liked it 😊

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6yr ago

Achieve

Hey guys, great idea! I live in Singapore and this is definitely useful. I'm interested to know how you started contact chefs? Did you just go into their restaurants and ask to speak to them? Did you cold call? thanks

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6yr ago

Aplace

Maker

@christopher_toh2 Hey, thanks for the feedback! We visited all of them and talked to chefs personally to kick it off

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6yr ago

Congratulations Yuliya & Aplace team for the launch! This is amazing to see collaborating with Top Chef Singapore. Love the list of recommendations.

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6yr ago

Aplace

Maker

Thanks a lot @fajarsiddiq! Happy that you loved recommendations, they can be very personal with our new recommender feature - would love to have your feedback on that too 🙏

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6yr ago

Finally we have a platform that makes relevant recommendation from the guys who know the best ( Chefs ) . Now that i am using it, i have this feeling as to why this kind of platform was not there before :-) Congrats Aplace team... I think it has the potential to do in food space what Shazam did to music...

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6yr ago

Aplace

Maker

@gulab_s Thanks so much for your support!

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6yr ago

DeckRobot for PowerPoint

I use Aplace for the last months and it is simply the best list of restaurants in San Francisco made by top Michelin chefs. Highly recommended! They keep adding new cities.

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6yr ago

Aplace

Maker

Thanks a lot for your feedback @tony_urban, happy to keep building a reliable guide for you 😊

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6yr ago

DeckRobot for PowerPoint

@yuliya_seregina you did a great job! Can't wait to have aplace for NYC and London as well

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6yr ago

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