Reno Restaurant Guide
A city's dining guide, built as a platform restaurants subscribe to.
Reno Restaurant Guide is a full platform, not a listings page: a public directory diners actually use, a dashboard owners run their listing from, and an admin manager that runs the business behind it.
- Client
- Reno Restaurant Guide
- Industry
- Restaurants and Hospitality
- Project
- Directory Platform
- Status
- Live
- Connected apps: public directory, owner dashboard, admin manager
- 3
- Listing tiers, from free to premier
- 4
- Neighborhoods covered
- 15
The challenge
The guide needed to be useful enough that diners come back, and valuable enough that restaurants pay to be on it. That meant real-time search, rich listing pages, self-service owner tools, subscription billing and an operator back office, all built to expand to more cities.
Our approach
We built three connected experiences on one codebase. Diners get faceted search by cuisine, vibe, neighborhood, price and features, plus a timezone-aware Open Now filter and maps. Owners get a Listing Manager to edit their listing, media and menus and manage billing. The operators get an Admin Manager with bulk listing tools, a sales pipeline, tier configuration, email templates and reporting.
The outcome
A subscription business with free and paid listing tiers, Stripe billing and background jobs that keep it running, ready to grow into new cities.
What we built
Inside Reno Restaurant Guide.
Faceted search
Browse by cuisine, vibe, neighborhood, price and features, with a timezone-aware Open Now filter.
Rich listing pages
Photo carousels, video, hours, menus and social links, unlocked by tier.
Owner Listing Manager
Restaurants edit their own listing, media and menus and manage billing themselves.
Admin Manager
Bulk listing tools, owners, a sales pipeline, tiers, taxonomies, email templates and reports.
Subscription billing
Tiered plans with monthly and annual billing through Stripe.
Built to scale
Background jobs, maps and a structure designed to add more cities.
The design
Public pages.
Each page scrolls on its own. Hover to pause and look closer.
home
directory
pricing
get listed
Deliverables
- Product strategy
- UX and UI design
- Platform development
- Billing and subscriptions
- Admin tools
- SEO
Built with
Started a very big project with Chris back in April. We just completed the project and I couldn't be more impressed with his skill, professionalism and patience.
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- Shipped modules
- 69
- Pages in the app
- 376
- Data models
- 425
