Hngry v3: The breakdown.
I’ve been working on this release of Hngry since October of last year, and I believe it’s finally a worthy upgrade to Hngry. There are a few kinks to work out here and there, and much more content is coming, but Hngry v3 is here now!!!
Version 1 of this site was pretty much just a place where you could add restaurants to a personalized list, rate, add notes about them and generally keep your restaurant info organized.
Version 2 added an improved design and the ability to have restaurant information added for you automatically, based on the restaurant name and where you live, the ability to keep track of your restaurant coupons so you can use them before you expire, as well as some other requested features.
Version 3, which went live this week includes the following features:
Public pages for every restaurant, so you don’t have to log in to use Hngry anymore, unless you want to manage/view personal information for your own restaurant list, see what your friends have added, etc. I’ve pulled everything I could possibly pull out of behind the login wall, so you can use a ton of Hngry features without even having an account or having to log in (for when you do have an account, but just want to do a quick search).
Menu support. This is huge. Every restaurant page now has the ability to show menu items and prices for everything on their menu, and every menu item is rateable. This means that you can search for a restaurant, see which ones are ranked highest, find the highest rated menu items, and get a map of where the restaurant is/driving directions, so even if you’re in another city, you can find somewhere to eat, know where it is located (with full driving directions), and have an great idea of what to eat before you even get there. There are over 180,000 menu items in the database right now, and a plan in the works to let you get all of your restaurant menus into Hngry, where they’ll be ratable, sortable and much more powerful, because they’ll link you to other people who like the same restaurant. I’ll let you know when you can start getting your own menus into Hngry.
Location-awareness. Hngry knows where everything in the restaurant list is located physically, so it can pull nearby restaurants, and soon, nearby cities, depending on what page you are on, and what restaurant/city you are looking at.
Support for 600+ metropolitan areas in the US, and a few in other parts of the world. Every metro area has its own page, which includes updated data on the newest users, most popular restaurants, most commonly used tags, recently added restaurants, and the latest reviews for that area. The page also includes a map that shows the locations of the newest restaurants, with links to their full pages, of course. If your particular metro area isn’t in the list, just select the one that is nearest you, then suggest your metro from the link on the bottom of the metro page, and I will add it.
User profile pictures. Now you can upload a picture that represents who you are and will be displayed around the site, in your user profile and pretty much anything that has your username attached. 
Just log in, click on Edit your profile, click on Upload/Change profile image, then follow the instructions, or click here.
The ability to rate restaurants right on their pages. Just run your cursor over the number of stars you’d like and click. It couldn’t be simpler.
The ability to set restaurants as favorites with a single click on the restaurant page, so you can see which restaurants in your area are favorites of other people, and vice-versa.
Creating/editing your review right from the restaurant page. This is pretty self-explanatory… you can just click on the proper place on the restaurant page, and you can type/save your review right there!
RSS Feeds. You can now subscribe to Recently Added Restaurants & Latest Reviews on every metro page, and also subscribe to your friends’ restaurant lists, or anyone’s reviews. Just look for the orange RSS icon (
) around the site.
Search for restaurants nearby. This feature is especially useful when traveling. For example, you can type the address of the hotel where you are staying and find out which restaurants are close to you and what other Hngry users think of them. It can also be used to find restaurants near you that you might not have even known were there.
A couple of key Hngry v3 features to point out:
You are asked to pick a metropolitan area when you first log in. After that, if you’d like to switch metros, all you’ve got to do is browse to the page for the metro you want to switch to and click “Make this your home metro”. Easy!
You can now search Hngry from just about any page on the site. If you’re on a city page, it’ll also fill in the location for you automatically, so you don’t have very much to type.
Okay, I think that’s about it for now. I’m still working on writing a full help section, but hopefully this post is helpful to you.
I’m proud of this release, and I hope that it becomes more and more useful to you as time goes on. If you have any questions , problems or comments, please leave a comment below or email me at eat at hngry dot com.
Log in! Add some restaurants. Invite some friends to Hngry.
Thanks for being a Hngry user. It would be nothing without you guys.
February 1st, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I would like to enter local hole in the wall restaurants to your list. How can I do that? I also have accidently registered twice. Can i cancel one e-mail id from your list?
February 1st, 2007 at 7:37 pm
acro-
Just search for them using the search bar on the top of any page. Hngry’s got access to a rather large nationwide database, so chances are good that if the restaurant has been in business for awhile and has a street address, it will come up.
To add them to the Hngry database, just add them to your list by clicking the green on the side of the search result you’d like to add to your list as well as the Hngry database.
However, if your search doesn’t return any results for that particular query, you’ll be given a link on the results page that lets you enter all of the information for that restaurant, and you can add it manually that way.
Email me at eat at hngry dot com, let me know which email id you’d like for me to remove and I will take care of it for you.
Let me know if you have any other issues!
February 2nd, 2007 at 1:05 am
[...] If you haven’t noticed yet, I’ve just released Hngry version 3. Hngry lets you manage a list of your favorite places to eat, find new eateries when you travel, read reviews, share restaurant with your friends, keep track of restaurant coupons and much much more. It’s totally free. The best part is, you can now use most of the features without even becoming a user. Check out what’s new, and then go check Hngry out! If you’ve got any questions or comments, please leave a comment here or on the Hngryblog. [...]
February 2nd, 2007 at 8:51 am
Underneath state of ‘Minnesota’ is listed ‘Fargo’ - which happens to be in North Dakota. Now - you could maybe list Moorhead, since that’s the ’sister city’ right across the river…
February 2nd, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Dave-
Thanks for the input!
I will make sure that Fargo gets removed, and will add Moorhead to the list of metros in Minnesota this weekend.