u/iamjohnta

>A tool for finding all inKind, Bilt, Blackbird, Resy, Rakuten, Franki, Seated, DoorDash dining out, etc restaurants + discovering stacking opportunities to save money on eating out

Link to MealMaxxer: https://www.nextcard.com/tools/dining-rewards-map

I came up with this tool idea after trying to figure out the best ways to not only find inKind restaurants, but to also find stacking opportunities to save money.

eg I have a Sapphire Reserve, so trying to find the restaurants in both inKind & OpenTable Exclusive Tables was a very manual + painful process

MealMaxxer aggregates restaurants in the following 11 dining rewards programs:

1. inKind (6,783 restaurants)
2. Bilt Neighborhood (23,088) (and Bilt Mobile Checkout)
3. CSR Dining Credit (395)
4. Amex Resy Credit (22,988)
5. Blackbird (1,098)
6. Seated (2,196)
7. Franki (11,507)
8. Rewards Network (20,796)
9. Rakuten Dining (18,576)
10. DoorDash Going Out (20,773)
11. Upside (20,183)

You can toggle between "In any" and "In all" to selectively find restaurants that are in any program vs all the selected programs. That said, some stacks may not be directly possible if you pay the entire bill within inKind, but that may warrant YMMV discussions below

Link to MealMaxxer: https://www.nextcard.com/tools/dining-rewards-map

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[UPDATE: if you are reading this now for the first time, it is probably too late. Good luck...]

Few useful tidbits/reminders for the last min procrastinators out there:

• You must activate the WHOOP Chase Offer before making the purchase
• The transaction needs to post by May 12, 2026
• Your purchase must be at least $359 or it won't count
• Highly recommend you find a referral or discount code to get the purchase down/close to $359

If you haven't used this offer yet, highly recommend you make the purchase today so that it posts in time

(btw there is a similar variant for Sapphire Preferred cardholders that could be useful for some people as well, same deadline)

good luck!

>tldr; finding all of the United Renowned Hotels & Resorts properties is a pain + most of them are expensive. Built a tool to find all of the properties and their nightly rates

If you have a United Quest, Club, or Club Business card, you have another fun hotel credit to use! This Renowned Hotels program just feels like an alternative to Amex FHR/Bilt HAFH… but for United cardholders. That said, a lot of hotels are expensive (median nightly price is $781 from our data), but you can easily find high value stays with this tool

Features:

• See all ~1,400 hotels worldwide in either map or list/table view
• Filter by price, city, or brand
• Compare nightly pricing for each hotel throughout the year

 

Eg there are ~66 hotels worldwide costing less than $250/night, which could be a great use of this United card credit

Heads up: data here is not live and is updated occasionally. That said, this tool should still give you a general proxy into availability, prices, and what hotels are even part of this program. But you should always check the Renowned hotels portal for final info verification

Link: https://nextcard.com/tools/united-renowned-hotels

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Using the Insomniac app to filter through the artists/stages/times was a pain

Took everything there and put it into a spreadsheet for easy filtering (you can copy for your own use cases) & then built a webapp for further easy filtering/exploring

• Spreadsheet:‎ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1akk94DMreylEYm2lL9Skmfr3FeNujIZO
• Webapp: https://www.john-ta.com/edc-2026-lineup/

lmk if anything seems off / if there are any useful filters to add

(took inspiration from u/xylamy147 for the spreadsheet design)