Restaurantology

The maker lists the complete independent website as no longer available; October 28, 2026 is an inferred observation date, not its actual cutoff.

Sources and shutdown details ↘

Everyday planning, travel & shopping · Closed; date inferred · 28 Oct 2026 · Observed closed by · Not the verified service cutoff · Matt Handler

The record

A personalized restaurant-discovery website that used Hunch’s recommendation engine to find places similar to restaurants a traveler already loved.

Operator at shutdown: Matt Handler Company source
Service end: Closed; date inferred · 28 Oct 2026Observed closed by · Not the verified service cutoffClosure source

Sources and verification

Matt Handler — original project retirement declaration ↗ · Checked 28 Oct 2026

Verification notes

Shutdown: The original maker’s live portfolio names this distinct website, dates the released project and explicitly labels its former user entrance no longer available. Its first-party project metadata independently marks historical progress live and current status dead; this is not just an unpublished concept or a broken-link inference. The maker describes the actual Hunch-powered recommendation task; the engine’s original acquiring operator corroborates its machine-learning prediction technology. The displayed October 28, 2026 is an inferred dated observation of that completed-retirement statement, not the unknown actual service cutoff or original announcement. The maker’s loose acquisition/API chronology is not transferred to a cutoff date. The two different named applications remain separate; Hunch’s API, the continuing eBay platform and unrelated new homonyms are excluded. Brooklyn is explicitly a current maker-city proxy, not a verified historical product-office location. Closure source
Dates checked: Verified 28 Oct 2026
AI functionality: AI functionality source
Launch: The maker dates the work to 2010 and marks the delivered website as historically live and now dead. That project year does not independently establish first public availability; the launch field remains unknown.
Location: United States · Brooklyn. Matt Handler’s own portfolio expressly locates its maker in Brooklyn, New York. Use a labeled current maker-locality proxy; neither a historical product office nor a company registration is claimed. Coordinates are the GeoNames locality point rounded to two decimals, not a street address. Location source · Coordinate source