damnlines
damnlines.comLive wait times and line tracker for NYC restaurants and venues
Food & Beveragewait-timesnycrestaurantsreal-timeapiqueue-trackingcomputer-vision
About
Damnlines monitors live queue activity at popular NYC restaurants and venues, providing real-time people counts and estimated wait times. It offers both a consumer-facing website showing current line status and a public REST and streaming API for developers to access snapshots, video clips, and line-count timeseries data. The API supports SSE and WebSocket streaming for live updates and includes historical backfill capabilities.
Problem
People waste time waiting in long lines at popular NYC restaurants without knowing how long the wait will be before they arrive.
For
NYC diners and developers building apps around venue wait times
How it works
Cameras monitor venue entrances and use computer vision to count people and estimate wait times, exposing the data via a website and a REST/streaming API.
Business model
freemium
Status
launched