SnapDish: A Food Photo App From Japan Trying to Stand Out From the Crowd

Here’s an interesting food photo app from Japan that is trying to stand out from the crowd in that space. SnapDish (www.snapdi.sh) is a free iPhone application that allows users to take pictures of food, record the location, price and other meta data, and share via your preferred social networks. How is SnapDish any different than the other food apps currently available? I spoke to representative Hidetaka Fukushima to find out a little more.

First of all, where did you get the idea for SnapDish?

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Many people like to share their delicious and enjoyable moments with friends, family or ‘gourmet friends’ regardless of which restaurant they had it in or what recipe it is. An easy snap may be enough for everyday food, but with food for special occasions people want to share what kind of food it is, when they had it, where they had it, and with whom they had it with.

There wasn’t an app for that. Facebook, Twitter or Mixi doesn’t do the job, nor do any of the other food photo apps around.

Many good food photos are already stored in the camera rolls of peoples’ smartphones but they haven’t been shared with the right people. If they’re shared with the right people, they can enjoy these photos and information.

If this spreads across the world, people will be able to find the local food that local people really love anywhere in the world. We want to create a platform that evolves around food photos and lets us share our ‘delicious’ moments with the world.

Are there others on the SnapDish team besides yourself?

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Yes. SnapDish is run by Vuzz Inc. and there are currently six main members working on SnapDish.

Zen Funada, the CEO who founded the company and came up with the idea and planned the application. Fumikazu Kiyota, the CTO, developed the product. I am in charge of business development and all things English. One person has joined us recently and is taking care of finance and funding issues. Another freelance developer and designer is also helping out. There are some more people who have helped us out with small stuff along the way.

We work out of a small apartment in Nerima [Tokyo] and all of the people involved have worked on a voluntary basis for no pay or fee.