Tony Eats
Eat like Bourdain, anywhere
A searchable map/guide to every restaurant, bar, and street stall Anthony Bourdain visited across Parts Unknown and No Reservations. ~37k locations, monetized via Viator/hotel/flight affiliate links.
Validate or kill
50d left · 2026-11-01Working, not a kill candidate — real traffic (5,020 visitors/30d) and a live revenue stream. Reassess the $10k/mo plan if Viator commission stays flat after the blog post + hotel/flight affiliate additions ship.
Repo status
Keep clicks on-site, de-duplicate city routes, fix affiliate links
Analytics — last 30d (Vercel)
5,020
visitors
14,204
pageviews
Next steps
- Prompt
Write a flagship blog post titled "Following Bourdain: Complete Destination Itineraries" covering Bangkok, Tokyo, Rome, Paris, and Hanoi. Pull real locations and episode references from our existing dataset, structure it as one itinerary section per city, and add internal links to each location's page plus the relevant Viator affiliate links.
- Prompt
Add hotel affiliate integration (Booking.com or Hotels.com) on the /hotels page and a flight affiliate integration (Skyscanner or Kiwi) on trip/itinerary pages, following the existing Viator affiliate link pattern used elsewhere in the app.
- Launch the weekly "fly like" newsletter dispatch to open the sponsorship revenue line
- Check Vercel analytics — has the ~15k monthly visitors baseline moved since the affiliate-link fix on 09-09?
Experiments to run
$10k/month revenue plan (Viator + hotels + flights + newsletter + premium guides)
Only the Viator stream is live; hotel, flight, newsletter and premium-guide streams are still to launch.
Past experiment results
Viator affiliate links on city/persona pages
Live, targeting $4,000 MRR at 8% commission; current baseline ~15,000 monthly visitors, ~37k locations indexed.
Keep clicks on-site + de-duplicate city routes
Shipped 2026-09-09 to reduce affiliate leakage and routing bugs; conversion impact not yet measured.