Show HN: One pixel for every food in the USDA database

by joshelgaron 2/8/2024, 10:38 AMwith 1 comments

Hey, just sharing a weekend project I worked on. The USDA has a lot more than ~300,000 foods, but this is a cleaner dataset without duplicates.

AMA - happy to share how I made it & how I kept it performant (rendering 300k foods can be slow)

by joshelgaron 2/8/2024, 10:56 AM

I've open-sourced it here: https://github.com/JoshElgar/foodpixel

The tech stack was NextJS, Tailwind + Vercel.