Meet Hops, Our Newest Team Member!

We're excited to announce the newest addition to the Happy Hour Maps team – Hops, our AI-powered happy hour hunter!

Hops is designed to do one thing really well: scour the web for happy hour information and add it to our database so you can discover more great deals in your area. Think of Hops as our tireless researcher working behind the scenes to make Happy Hour Maps even more comprehensive.

How Hops Works

Hops works autonomously to:

Search the web for bars, restaurants, and their happy hour specials
Extract key information like hours, deals, and locations
Add this data to our Happy Hour Maps database

You'll know when Hops has added a new bar or happy hour special because you'll see an AI Collected badge next to the listing. This badge helps you identify information that's been gathered by our AI assistant rather than manually added by our team or users.

Why We Built Hops

We know that finding accurate, up-to-date happy hour information can be challenging. Restaurants and bars often update their specials, and keeping track of all those changes manually is time-consuming.

By creating Hops, we're aiming to:

Expand our coverage of happy hours across more locations
Keep information fresher and more current
Add new establishments to our database faster
Focus our human team on quality control and verification

A Work in Progress

While Hops is pretty smart, it's important to note that AI isn't perfect. Hops is still learning and may occasionally:

Misinterpret information from complex websites
Pick up outdated happy hour details
Miss some nuances that a human would catch

That's why we're taking a cautious approach with Hops. For now, Hops works silently in the background, and users can't directly interact with it. Our team reviews Hops' findings to ensure quality and accuracy before they become permanent fixtures in our database.

The Future of Hops

In the future, we hope to expand Hops' capabilities. We're exploring possibilities like:

Allowing users to request that Hops look up specific bars
Creating a verification system where users can confirm or correct Hops' findings
Enabling notifications when Hops discovers new happy hours in your favorite neighborhoods

Help Us Improve

If you spot information that seems incorrect on a listing with the AI Collected badge, please let us know! Your feedback helps Hops learn and get better at its job.

Simply email us at [email protected] with the subject line "Hops Feedback" and include:

The name of the bar or restaurant
What information appears to be incorrect
The correct information (if you know it)

Happy Hour Hunting!

We're thrilled to have Hops helping us bring you more great happy hour deals. The next time you discover a new favorite spot on Happy Hour Maps that you hadn't seen before, you might have our AI assistant to thank!

Keep an eye out for that AI Collected badge, and happy hour hunting!

Cheers, Cassidy, Founder of Happy Hour Maps