Idea checked
an analytics dashboard for restaurants
The market is crowded with generic dashboard tools and many restaurant analytics demos, but no clear live product was found that is restaurant-ops-first and clearly differentiated.
Confidence: medium — There is decent signal volume across GitHub, npm, HN, Stack Exchange, Dev.to, and web pages, but almost no first-hand complaints or stated wants, so the unmet-need side is thin.
- hackernews 13
- github 20
- githubissues nothing found
- discourse nothing found
- intent nothing found
- stackexchange 3
- registries 16
- tavily 9
- devto 10
3 sources came back empty — what that means
- githubissues searched, nothing relevant found
- discourse searched, nothing relevant found
- intent searched, nothing relevant found
Treat the report as weaker where a source is missing. Nothing here was substituted from somewhere else to fill the gap.
Interest over time From data
Hacker News stories mentioning restaurant analytics dashboard (topic read as “restaurant analytics”), by year — 2 in total, currently flat.
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024
- 2025
- 2026
This counts discussion on Hacker News, not global search demand. For developer tooling the two move together; for a local service business they do not.
Who is already building this From data
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SurveyJS Dashboard is a UI component for visualizing and analyzing survey data, with 101,288 monthly npm downloads.
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@kong-ui-public/dashboard-renderer renders analytics charts from a JSON definition and has 150,647 monthly npm downloads.
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Vercel Web Analytics is a very large generic analytics product at 18,577,347 monthly npm downloads, but it is for web traffic, not restaurants.
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There are multiple small GitHub restaurant analytics dashboards, including PSURI1894/zomato_analysis with 28 stars and last push 2025-12-09, and parlhad/Swiggy-End-To-End-Data-Analytics with 13 stars and last push 2026-03-18.
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Live restaurant-ops projects also include PranshuPujara/AI_Restaurant_Intelligence_Platform with 5 stars and last push 2026-05-25, abdelhaymallouli/restaurant-ordering-system with 3 stars and last push 2026-01-22, and iamsyedbilal/RestoMetrics with 2 stars and last push 2026-06-12.
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The broader dashboard space is heavily occupied by general tooling such as OpenSearch Dashboards, which has 23,238,611 Docker pulls and 50 stars, and Apache APISIX Dashboard, which has 12,138,414 Docker pulls and 38 stars.
What people actually say From data
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"I am looking for BI/Analytic options for my application." This is a first-hand Stack Exchange question from someone trying to add analytics to an online/mobile food-ordering app. not about restaurants
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"I want to show them some statistics" This is another first-hand Stack Exchange question from a restaurant platform builder asking how to expose analytics to customers.
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"As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product" This HN quote is about dashboards and reports, and it points to how much value people place on the presentation layer. not about restaurants
People asking to be sold to From data
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"I am looking for BI/Analytic options for my application." This is an explicit need from a person building a food-ordering platform. not about restaurants
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"I want to show them some statistics" This is a direct demand for customer-facing analytics in a restaurant platform.
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"Could you share the code for the dashboard or the data model?" This HN-style request appears in the signal set as an ask for implementation help around dashboards. not about restaurants
Where the opening is Model estimate
The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.
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The signals do not show a live product that is specifically built for restaurant operators to combine POS, labor, inventory, reservations, online ordering, and marketing into one decision dashboard.
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The found projects are mostly demos, notebooks, or generic dashboard renderers; they show restaurant analytics visuals, but not a clear production SaaS with restaurant-specific data connectors and recurring operator workflows.
- github PSURI1894/zomato_analysis 2025-12-09
- github parlhad/Swiggy-End-To-End-Data-Analytics 2025-07-17
- github PranshuPujara/AI_Restaurant_Intelligence_Platform 2026-03-12
- github DataDudeSaadKhan/Restaurant-Analytics-Platform-databricks_Ecosystem 2026-05-11
- github sajithgrandhi/zomato-restaurant-analytics 2025-12-20
- github iamsyedbilal/RestoMetrics 2026-05-31
- github senthilkumar-tech/Food-IQ---Bengaluru 2026-06-21
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The data also does not show a differentiated customer-facing analytics layer for restaurant platforms, even though a few questions ask for it.
How big the market might be Model estimate
The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.
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This search found 2 named package competitors and multiple small GitHub projects, but the counted facts say only 2 package competitors were identified and their activity is unknown.
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The largest monthly package downloads seen were 150,647 for @kong-ui-public/dashboard-renderer, with another relevant package at 101,288 downloads for survey-analytics.
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There were 3 unsolved questions and 0 first-hand complaints or stated wants, which means the demand side is visible but weakly expressed.
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Across the collected signals there were 10 Dev.to items, 20 GitHub items, 13 Hacker News items, 16 registry items, and 3 Stack Exchange items, so this topic is being discussed in several places even if the pain is not strongly voiced.
What could go wrong Model estimate
The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.
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This is likely to be a feature, not a standalone product, unless it plugs into a restaurant stack that operators already use.
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Generic dashboard frameworks and analytics libraries are abundant, so you would be competing against build-it-yourself setups as much as against direct restaurant SaaS.
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The lack of first-hand complaints and stated wants suggests that the problem may be under-specified, which makes customer discovery harder.
What to do this week Model estimate
The model's read of the signals below — not something anyone measured.
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Start by targeting one operator workflow, such as menu performance or labor vs. sales, instead of a full restaurant BI suite.
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Build connectors for the systems that keep showing up in the signals: POS, reservations, online ordering, inventory, and labor.
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Position it either as a restaurant-owner dashboard or as a customer-facing analytics module for restaurant platforms, since both needs appeared in the signals.
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Validate with a small set of restaurant operators before building a broad dashboard layer, because the current data does not show strong explicit demand.
Competitor strength From data
Counted, not judged. Only projects that expose a hard number — stars, downloads, last commit — appear here, so they stop looking identical to each other. Products with no public metrics are discussed above instead of being given a row they cannot fill.
| Project | Stars | Downloads / mo | Activity |
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| npm: @kong-ui-public/dashboard-renderer npm | — | 150,647 | — |
| npm: survey-analytics npm | — | 101,288 | — |
- 2 package
Domain names From data
Checked live against the registry, built from the subject of the idea rather than the first words of the sentence. A literal check is a fact; a brandable suggestion would be noise.
- restaurantanalytics.com taken
- restaurantanalytics.io available
- restaurant.com taken
- getrestaurant.com taken
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