D.O.N. stands for the "Database of Nachos" and is the most important work we've ever done*

We created the database with a couple of ideas in mind

1. We love nachos**
2. TJ Muehleman, the creator of D.O.N. doesn't really get to code much anymore. So this was his spare time, keep-the-coding-fingers-fresh project
3. We wanted to build something truly disruptive. Outer space and driverless cars? No. I need to know where in Wyoming to get Nachos (not a lot of places apparently; only 18 in our database)

So here's what we did. We wrote some code. And then some more code. Then threw out the code. Then argued over whether this should be a database of nachos or a database of tacos (look at the twitter battles between @tjmule and @jonnynezbo). Ultimately nachos won and TJ got to hacking away. He cobbled together some code that crawled a number of databases to collect and build the internet's most comprehensive database of restaurants that serve nachos. As of August 2015, we've found 23,000 restaurants in 1,600 cities in all 50 states that serve nachos of some kind. This includes Red Lobster (shrimp nachos? ah hell no) and over 400 Taco Bells (we know we know -- there many more Taco Bells than this)

API

Now that you've read all of that, you're probably like "uh, I wanna include this sweet sweet knowledge in our website". Well luckily you can! We created a really simple API that currently has a single endpoint:

/api/search_within?nelat=33.799104340492704&nelng=-84.31515844140625&swlat=33.742025553527505&swlng=-84.41952855859375&limit=50&offset=0

If you're a dev you know exactly what this is doing. It's doing a simple bounds search against a PostGIS database that returns 50 restaurants that serve nachos roughly in the o4w/Inman Park neighborhoods of Atlanta. Feel free to use this all you want in your system.

Who

D.O.N. is the brainchild of TJ Muehleman from Standard Code. Everyone else at the office wishes to distance themselves from this project.***

* this is not true
** this is definitely true
*** this is probably true