Over 10,000 unique visitors this week

In some ways it’s an arbitrary milestone, but this past week we got over 10,000 unique visitors according to Google Analytics, which is cause for a bit of celebration. We’re also #54 on Oindex, a site which compares and visitor amounts of sites all over Finland. We’re happy to report that it’s not just a question of a sudden spike. We’ve been seeing nice and steady organic growth all along…

Oindex Eat.fi records

…which bodes very well for the future. A big thank you goes out to all of you enthusiastic users who have been spreading the word! You are very much appreciated.

Partial search is totally awesome

We did another round of various updates, but this one deserves a special hilight.

Partial search: It’s easy to miss, but it’s a big, big deal and was quite tricky to get working right with the amount of data we’ve got. Now you can search for just parts of restaurant names and descriptions. We’re talking about this field, found at the top right of every page:

Previously if you were looking for, say “Villetta” you would have to type:

Now you can just type a part of the word, like so:

You’ll find both “Villetta” and “Villa Maria” that way. Exciting, no? You can also type “ital” if you’re looking for “italian” or “italy”. It’ll find both. Powerful stuff.

Hot pro tip: Type the name of a city into the search field to go directly there!

Swedish, Slush Helsinki, and other updates

We’ve been busy! You may have noticed that the site is now in Swedish as well (choose “SV” in the top left corner), and the wiki-like editing tools have been updated and clarified thanks to lots of useful feedback from users and the attendees of BarCamp Helsinki. (Thanks, guys!)

If you are a Swedish speaker and notice any translations that seem silly, please let us know.

Wiki-tools: Instead of the little menu shown in the last post, we’ve added little “Add missing information” markers to restaurants with no information, and then tucked all the rest of the editing tools under a prominent “Information missing or wrong” link on each restaurant page:

This should make the tools easier to find, and also used more often. The results speak for themselves–we’ve had far more updates to information since we made these changes.

Slush Helsinki was an event for internet startups last Monday at Korjaamo organized by ArcticStartup, which is looking to help promote internet entrepreneurship in the North. Other organizers were Zipipop and Floobs. We intended to post about this before the event, but unfortunately forgot to while we were preparing for our participation in it! (We also forgot to take photos of our demo space there…arg!) In any case, we did attend and demo the site, which was fun and well worth it. It was really nice to meet many of you users and hear your feedback in person, as well as to share experiences and information with the other people in the industry. Let’s do it again next year!