Find the best
restaurants.
Get their numbers.
Search any state, city, or area in India. Get top-rated restaurants, extract contact numbers on demand, export to Excel — all with intelligent caching that slashes your Google API costs.
Platform Features
Built for discovery teams,
not casual browsers.
Every feature is designed around one goal: help you find, contact, and export places faster — without burning your Google API budget.
Mode Toggle — Restaurants or Schools
Switch between restaurant discovery and school discovery with a single click. The entire UI — cards, icons, filters, export columns — adapts to the selected mode instantly.
- Restaurants mode: cuisine, rating, price range
- Schools mode: board, type (CBSE/ICSE/IB), grade
- Both modes share identical search & export UX
- Toggle is available globally on every screen
On-Demand Phone Number Extraction
Numbers are not fetched by default — saving you the cost of a Google Place Details API call on every result. Click "Extract Number" on any card to pull and permanently save that number.
- Calls Place Details API only when you request it
- Number saved to DB — never fetched twice
- Displayed instantly for cached numbers
- Works for both restaurants and schools
Quick Excel Export
See a list of schools in Koramangala? Export it. Have numbers extracted for 12 restaurants in Bandra? Export that too. One click exports exactly what you see — including all extracted numbers.
- Exports name, address, rating, phone, type
- Works mid-search, no need to wait for full data
- Clean column headers, ready for CRM import
- No account upgrade needed for exports
Smart Caching — Search Once, Pay Once
Every Places API search result is written to our database immediately. Future searches for the same city/area pull from our DB — not from Google — so the cost is borne once, shared by all.
- Results cached per state → city → area path
- Phone numbers cached on extraction permanently
- Cache survives tab close, network drops, restarts
- Shared cache means your whole team benefits too
Full India Coverage — State → City → Area
Browse India's full administrative hierarchy — pick a state, drill into a city, then narrow to an area. Or type directly in the search bar. Every tier-1, tier-2, and tier-3 city included.
- Visual card grid: click to drill down
- Search bar autocomplete across all levels
- Area-level precision (e.g. Koramangala Block 5)
- New areas added weekly from live data
Instant Results, Zero Wait
On cache hit, your results appear in under 300 milliseconds. On a fresh area search, Google API responds in 1–2 seconds, writes to cache, and every future user in that area is instant.
- Cache-hit latency: avg. 280ms
- Fresh API search: avg. 1.4 seconds
- Partial results shown while loading
- Offline-safe: cached data loads without internet
API Cost Intelligence
Google API costs scale with your team.
Our cache doesn't.
Two 6-person sales teams. Same workflow: 200 places searched per day, 150 numbers extracted. One uses raw Google API. One uses PlaceFinder. Here's exactly what happens to their bill.
Select a team to inspect
6 people · 200 searches/person/day · 150 numbers extracted daily · no shared cache
Savings Calculator
Calculate your team's savings
Adjust the sliders to match your actual workflow. Numbers update in real time.
Platform Metrics
Numbers that tell the story.
How It Works
Search once. The data stays yours.
Every interaction writes to our database. Nothing disappears. Nothing gets double-billed.
Pick your location
Choose any state → city → area using the drill-down cards, or type in the search bar. Autocomplete works across all 5,000+ indexed areas.
Results load — from cache or API
If this area was searched before, results come from our DB in milliseconds. First-time search calls Google Places API, gets the list of top restaurants, and writes it to our DB.
Extract numbers on demand
Click "Extract Number" on any card. We call the Google Place Details API for that place_id, extract the formatted phone number, and append it to the DB record — permanently. At 80% cache rate, that's ₹0 on 4 out of every 5 searches.
Tab closed? Network down? No problem.
Because data is written to our DB on every call, nothing is lost. Reopen, re-search the same area — results and numbers appear from cache. You are never charged twice for the same data.
Export what you see
Click Export. A formatted .xlsx file downloads with name, area, rating, type, and every phone number extracted so far. Ready for CRM, outreach, or team handoff.
India Coverage
Every state. Every city.
Every area.
Search from Srinagar to Kanyakumari. Click on any state card, pick a city, then drill into an area — or just type in the search bar.
vs Raw Google Places API
Google API is powerful.
But it charges you every time.
PlaceFinder is the intelligent layer on top — so you get the data without the recurring cost.
| Feature | Raw API / Manual | PlaceFinder |
|---|---|---|
| Phone number extraction | Manual — open Google Maps per place | One click per card, auto-saved to DB |
| Data persistence | Lost on tab close or network drop | Cached to DB immediately, always available |
| API cost on re-search | Full cost every single time | ₹0 — served from our database |
| Excel export | Manual copy-paste into sheets | One-click .xlsx with all columns |
| India coverage | Requires custom query per area | 5,000+ areas pre-indexed, searchable |
| Team usage | Each user pays API costs independently | Shared cache — team benefits from every search |
| Mode switching | Separate queries for each category | Single toggle between restaurants and schools |
| Monthly cost (6-person team) | ₹6,919/mo and rising | ₹965/mo — drops further as cache matures |
| Annual cost at team scale | ₹83,028/year | ₹11,580/year — ₹71,448 saved annually |
Who It's For
Every team that needs Indian place data.
Education Consultants
Build school lists for parent counselling sessions across any city or area. Extract admission contact numbers in bulk and export directly to your CRM.
Restaurant Aggregators
Scout new restaurant partners in any city. Pull ratings, contact numbers, and areas — export to Excel for your partnership team in one click.
Market Research Firms
Build representative samples of restaurants or schools across states. The drill-down hierarchy makes stratified geographic sampling fast and auditable.
Tele-sales & Outreach Teams
Get verified phone numbers for schools or restaurants in any target area. Export to Excel and load into your dialler — no manual lookup needed.
Franchise & Expansion Teams
Map the restaurant or school density in any area before opening a new branch. Understand who's already there, their ratings, and how to position.
Government & NGO Projects
Map school infrastructure coverage across districts. Cache means all field workers share the same data — no duplication, consistent records.
Teams across India trust PlaceFinder.
1,200+ users. Real savings. Real workflows.
"We used to spend 3 hours manually finding school numbers in Delhi NCR. PlaceFinder gets us 40 schools with verified numbers in under 10 minutes."
Meera Joshi
Senior Counsellor, EduPath Consulting · Noida
"The caching is the killer feature. My team of 6 all search the same cities — we checked after a month and had spent ₹900 in API costs vs ₹7,200+ if we'd gone direct through Google Places."
Arjun Malhotra
Ops Lead, TasteMap India · Bengaluru
"Tab crashed mid-session. On any other tool that's 30 wasted API calls. On PlaceFinder, I reopened and everything was exactly where I left it. That's when I knew."
Priya Venkatesh
Research Analyst, BrandSampler · Chennai
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