Improved search and notifications for hard-to-book Japanese restaurants

[If this is categorised as self-promotion, please delete this post.]

Hi all,

I've been working on a website that essentially does what Omakase Premium (2,980 JPY / month) does, but better. I did this because I would go on Omakase multiple times a day to see if I could snatch a 2-person dinner slot at L'Effervescence. Now, I'll get an email notification if such a slot appears.

You can add restaurants that are bookable via Omakase and it will send you an email notification if there are any slots matching your preferences (e.g., party size, dates).

Omakase itself only sends general cancellation notifications, not filtered on preferences. You also receive these notifications later than other 'preferred' users.

Furthermore, you can also search for all restaurants that you have added to your personal profile in a calendar format with frequently-used filters (e.g., party size, time).

No more clicking on each individual available slot to see what the time of the available slot is and the required party size. You can also look for multiple restaurants at once, instead of needing to repeat the process.

It's purely a personal project, but I thought if there are others who would like to use this too, I could invite ~5 beta testers for free to estimate the required costs of running this and to see what other features would be helpful. After extensive testing I can then make it public and charge a small fee covering the costs.

Note: it's not a bot that will book for you. You should see it as a supercharged search engine.