Pizza Arbiter

[avram]

Way, way back in the golden age of the late 20th century, around 1995 or ’96, shortly after I first started at Crossover Games and was learning about the technical side of the web, I had an idea for a web app: The Pizza Calculator. The idea was that you’d enter in how many people were splitting the pizza, how much they wanted to eat, what kinds of toppings they liked/disliked/were neutral about, and it would spit back an order (“Two pies, one with pepperoni and half mushrooms, the other with pineapple and half anchovies.”).

I didn’t get far; turns out it’s a pretty daunting problem, which explains why it can take so long for a large group to agree on a mass pizza order. Someone else has come up with a more elegant solution — The Pizza Arbiter. You register your LJ handle, tell it what toppings you like, and it can construct pizzas that any given group of registered LJ users can share.

Want to find out what pizza you and I can share? Put your name in the box next to mine and click the button to find out!