Social restaurant discovery · Los Angeles
Eat
your
city
The people you trust already know the best spots. WannaGo ranks by them, not by the crowd average of strangers.
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Petty Cash Taqueria · FairfaxThe problem
You don't eat like the average of strangers
Ranked by your people
Connect your contacts and the order changes. Places your friends have rated five stars climb to the top and their faces land right on the card.
Favorites go public
Tap the heart and a private save flips into a public wannago. It drops onto a shared list, and the friends who wanted to go there too can join the plan.
Try the heart on the card. It flips.
A fast yes or no
Every place page stacks the decision in one screen: the photo, the essentials, and the one thing that settles it, which friends have been and what they said.
IconicWest Hollywood
Explore LA, block by block
From West Hollywood to Downtown. Tap a neighborhood and the whole city reshuffles instantly. No loading, no filters buried three taps deep.
Try it
The real thing, in your hands
This is the actual product, rebuilt to click through. Real screens, real navigation, real state. Go ahead.
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The app
Every screen, shipped
The story
Product and design, led as one
Restaurant discovery had calcified into a search box with filters. The bet was that personalization from people you trust would beat crowd ratings, but only if the interface made that signal feel obvious, not clever.
I owned product and design together, so the roadmap and the interface evolved as one thing. Ranking, social signal, and the public wannago list were designed as a single decision loop rather than bolted-on features.
Two major redesigns sharpened the identity into the bold system you are looking at. The product shipped across three platforms and the company was acquired.