Build Your Personal Restaurant Map from Instagram & Threads
Stop losing track of restaurants you see on social media. Build an interactive food map from Instagram Reels and Threads posts — auto-categorized by cuisine, price, and neighborhood.
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Average restaurants saved per city
15+
Cuisine types auto-detected
<10s
Time to save a new spot
92%
Users revisit saved places
The Problem
How foodies lose great places
Bookmarks
An infinite list with no map, no addresses, and no way to filter by location
Screenshots
No searchable info — just images in your camera roll you'll never scroll back to
Google Maps
Manual search for every single place — assuming you even remember the name
Notes apps
A messy text dump that you forget about by the time you actually need it
The Solution
How Hold My Pin works for foodies
Capture every restaurant recommendation
See a mouth-watering Reel of ramen in Shibuya? A food blogger reviewing tacos in Mexico City? Tap share and the restaurant appears on your map with name, address, cuisine type, and the original post.
AI auto-categorizes by cuisine and style
No manual tagging. AI reads the content and auto-categorizes: Italian, Japanese, street food, fine dining, brunch spots, dessert bars. Filter your map to see only what you're in the mood for.
Find saved spots when you're hungry
Open your map in any neighborhood and instantly see every restaurant, cafe, and bar you've ever saved nearby. No more scrolling through bookmarks — your recommendations are spatial.
Create shareable food guides
Build and share city food guides: "Best Pizza in NYC", "Hidden Gems in Bangkok", "Date Night Spots in London". Recipients see a full interactive map with every pin.
That ramen Reel — the one with the perfectly soft egg, the rich tonkotsu broth, the queue out the door. You liked it. Maybe you saved it. But when you're actually standing in Tokyo two weeks later, can you find it?
Social media has become the primary way people discover restaurants. Instagram Reels of plating videos and Threads posts about hidden gems — they surface places that no guidebook or review site ever would. But discovering a restaurant and being able to find it later are two completely different things.
Why bookmarks and screenshots fail foodies
The average food-focused social media user saves 20-30 restaurant recommendations per month. Within weeks, those saves become an unmanageable list. When you're hungry and standing in a new neighborhood, you can't filter by “restaurants near me” in your bookmarks. You can't search your screenshots by cuisine. You can't see which saved places are in walking distance.
Turn your feed into a food map
Hold My Pin transforms how foodies save and use restaurant recommendations. When you see a food video on any platform, share the link. AI identifies the restaurant — even from captions like “this hidden spot in Mexico City” with no location tag — and adds it to your personal food map.
AI-powered categorization
Every restaurant is automatically categorized by cuisine (Italian, Japanese, Thai, Mexican), type (fine dining, casual, street food, cafe), and context (brunch spot, date night, late-night eats). No manual tagging required.
Find saved spots when you're hungry
Open your map in any neighborhood. See every restaurant, cafe, and bar you've ever saved nearby. Filter by cuisine when you know what you want. Your food recommendations become spatial — not a list to scroll, but a map to explore.
Build and share food guides
Create collections like “Best Pizza in New York”, “Street Food in Bangkok”, or “Brunch Spots in London”. Share them with friends — they get a full interactive map with every restaurant pinned.
From food writer to casual diner
“I've been keeping a Google Doc of restaurant recs for 3 years. Shared every link to Hold My Pin and now I have an actual map. Should've done this ages ago.”
— Marcus Chen, food writer, Eater NY
Whether you're a professional food writer or someone who just loves discovering new restaurants on Instagram, Hold My Pin turns your social media recommendations into a food map you'll actually use.
Never lose a restaurant recommendation again
Your next favorite restaurant is probably already in your feed. Save it, map it, eat there — and keep the original video so you know exactly what to order.
FAQ
Common questions from foodies
AI analyzes multiple signals: the caption text ("best ramen in Shinjuku"), geotags, hashtags (#tokyofood), visual context (menu boards, signage), and cross-references with restaurant databases to identify the exact spot.
Yes. AI auto-categorizes every restaurant by cuisine (Italian, Japanese, Mexican, etc.) and type (fine dining, casual, street food, cafe). You can filter your map to show only specific categories.
Hold My Pin detects duplicates automatically. If you save a second video about the same restaurant, it links to the existing pin instead of creating a new one — so you can see all the original posts that recommended that place.
Yes. After visiting a saved restaurant, you can add notes ("great cocktails, skip the pasta"), a personal rating, and custom tags. Your map becomes a personal food diary, not just a bookmark list.
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