Title: Hey HN! I go a bit about the project on the about [0] page, but wanted to chime in here as well.<p>It’s been a project long in the making - it started in 2019, before everything shut down&#x2F;changed. The list of closed restaurants I found - for New York only - was already really long. So now (that I have time to work on it at recurse.com) it really felt like I needed to do something about it.<p>When a restaurant (or any business) shows up on Google Maps as “permanently closed”, in that bright red font, there’s always a tiny bit of a pang of sadness. It’s definitely more than a pang when you look for a place you loved and expected to visit again.<p>The project’s “aesthetic” is inspired by early 2000s funeral homes’ websites. The combination of funeral + restaurant is what made it click for me. Maybe what we long for is a place to share our losses? Maybe.<p>Thanks for checking it out! :)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;restaurants.rip&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;restaurants.rip&#x2F;about</a>
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