Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away from the Typical Tourist Traps • Hacker News Board

Re: Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away from the Typical Tourist Traps

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Post by VLM » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 5:39 PM UTC

crazcarl wrote: post #7

chudi wrote: post #5

Nice concept, i've always wanted something like this, but here in south america and I suppose everywhere in the world, unless you speak the local language, for a tourist is pretty hard to avoid these traps and get to hang out with the locals. Maybe the app will take the wikipedia route and let the people share their tours.

User driven content on something like this seems like it would pretty quickly lead to routes popping up which lead the users to the author's "not a tourist-trap" restaurant or store.

Maybe with some voting and metamod supervision...

Re: Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away from the Typical Tourist Traps

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Post by pchristensen » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 6:45 PM UTC

More good info from Andrew's blog: http://smandrew.com/post/93311039628/my-new-company

"We have traditional destinations, like Fisherman’s Wharf, but we found a fisherman who has worked there for 40 years to guide you through the working pier and experience a side of the Wharf that tourists rarely see. We’re also producing Detours in seemingly nondescript places, like Western Addition, or a walk through Bayview, on which you learn about San Francisco’s ambitious goal to recycle or reuse every single item we ‘throw away,’ as you walk from the aisles of a grocery store to the pier where container ships pick up bundles of plastic and take them to China."

Re: Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away from the Typical Tourist Traps

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Post by james33 » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 6:51 PM UTC

hardik988 wrote: post #9

james33 wrote: post #6

My wife and I used an app similar to this on our honeymoon in Hawaii. We had the option of paying $300 for a guided tour, or paying $5 for an app and going our own pace. The app made that day one of the highlights of the trip.

That sounds pretty cool! Do you happen to remember the name of this app?

The one we used was called "Road to Hana GPS Driving Tour," but it looks like there's a long list of them under the GPS Tour Guide name.

Re: Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away from the Typical Tourist Traps

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Post by faridh » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 6:58 PM UTC

I've been working on a similar app called lamp @ http://ilikelamp.com

Re: Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away from the Typical Tourist Traps

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Post by nedwin » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 7:21 PM UTC

This is great. I love the idea of the salty old fisherman but would also love to see comedians, artists and amateur historians.

Ricky Gervais' tour of the Vatican, Louis CK's tour of Brooklyn. Rev share for the artists.

Re: Audio Tour App Detour Steers You Away from the Typical Tourist Traps

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Post by clutchski » Wed, Jul 30, 2014, 8:22 PM UTC

nedwin wrote: post #15

This is great. I love the idea of the salty old fisherman but would also love to see comedians, artists and amateur historians. Ricky Gervais' tour of the Vatican, Louis CK's tour of Brooklyn. Rev share for the artists.

Louis CK is from Mass and lives in Manhattan, so his Brooklyn tour is probably not what you're looking for.