Muddle Puddle

A happy-hour finder that rounds up the specials around you.

Founder and builder.

Muddle Puddle map of Venice happy hours with rounded-up specials and prices

The problem

Happy hour information lives in PDF menus, chalkboards, and stale blog posts. Nobody keeps it fresh, so you never know what is actually on right now near you.

What I built

Muddle Puddle opens to a map of the happy hours around you. Tap Round Up Happy Hours and a durable server pipeline discovers nearby bars, reads their own websites (HTML, PDF menus, even menu images), extracts the specials with Claude, and streams structured results onto the map: days, hours, and actual prices. Every listing carries its provenance: which site it was rounded up from, when it was checked, and how confident the extraction is.

The outcome

A live consumer app where the hard part is invisible: one retryable extraction step per venue, and a data architecture that stores only what the bars publish themselves.

Stack

Next.js 16 · Vercel Workflows · Neon Postgres · MapLibre · Claude extraction