First of all, thanks a ton for the feedback! I see I probably need to make some improvements to the app, asap, like a simple tutorial.
If you want more images of a place when in swipe mode, you can tap the right side of the card. You can also tap the distance thingy in the top right corner to view it in Google Maps. And if you tap the heart/cross, you see the next place(s). When having made some selections, you end up with a list. Hopefully that makes the decision process easier for some - At least it does it for my part.
When knowing both of these things, for me, having used the app myself, I have found some amazing places to eat using it. But I see that it doesn´t provide value for all. You´re partially right about the vibe coding as well. Coded everything by hand a year ago, but finished it using AI, for sure. :D
Anyway, this probably isn´t for everybody, I think, but for people used to this pattern (tapping the card to see more pictures), I hope it brings more value than a picture of the outside of a place.
Really appreciate the feedback though, again thanks a ton. Will make some improvements based on this for sure.
Thanks! Totally agree with you here. We actually made the POC of this product in two days a year ago. And while finishing it enough to be able to launch (which as usual took way too long), we´ve been using it within so many different cities we have travelled to. It really makes it easy to spot which places that are interesting to visit, and images really speak so much louder than anything.
Future improvements might indeed be to further improve the listings with extended informations such as user reviews and dietary filters. Also thinking about ways to raffine the search results by utilizing AI for things like providing a summary over the results you are left with after some swiping. Perhaps also some agent option(s) to easier be able do stuff like booking a table - Who knows. But first of all, this was great fun to make, and something I wanted as a travel companion for myself. So hoping other people might enjoy it as well. Again, thanks for you feedback! :-)
Great! Lat/lng would of course be best implemented if kind of accurate. Ipinfo.io seems to do this quite well. I would happily use this to detect if somebody tries to spoof the info provided from window.gelocation.get/watch, whic is pretty sweet to utilize for anything that relates to maps. :)
Really sorry about deleting! Discovered a bug that was critical, and needed to fix that before getting too much peopole in.
Note: Also, for some reason, I managed to post the wrong url. Can somebody please fix this, and delete this note? The url should of course be https://pac.chat
Inbound links are certainly welcome ;-). We offer a paid API service [0] too. If that's something you might be interested in, please let me know: chris@wesawit.com
I´ve checked localmind out, and will for sure have a look at Circle. There´s also Findery, Pindrop and Banjo. Plus, you have this connect-them-all application for iOS called Localscope. There´s so much inspiration and great thinking within many of these apps.
However, none of them works exactly the way round.io does, and I still haven´t seen any service yet that does it. So we hope people will enjoy using it once we get to a more finished state.
I have discussed the current design with people who say the same as you, and I can definetly see your point. We´re in the making of a video that explains the concept better, and will design the front page better as well.
Hoping to see you register some day anyway, though! ;-)
If you want more images of a place when in swipe mode, you can tap the right side of the card. You can also tap the distance thingy in the top right corner to view it in Google Maps. And if you tap the heart/cross, you see the next place(s). When having made some selections, you end up with a list. Hopefully that makes the decision process easier for some - At least it does it for my part.
When knowing both of these things, for me, having used the app myself, I have found some amazing places to eat using it. But I see that it doesn´t provide value for all. You´re partially right about the vibe coding as well. Coded everything by hand a year ago, but finished it using AI, for sure. :D
Anyway, this probably isn´t for everybody, I think, but for people used to this pattern (tapping the card to see more pictures), I hope it brings more value than a picture of the outside of a place.
Really appreciate the feedback though, again thanks a ton. Will make some improvements based on this for sure.