Why not go with V'ger? Seems like a missed opportunity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_characters_(...
Indeed, we've been told about that. Hopefully, it won't be a defining moment for us as a company :)
Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps
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Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps
#32I'm not sure I understand : how can you product help for opening times or pictures of my local boulangerie ? What kind of data sources will help you automate the reviewing of its attributes ?
We are not providing opening times yet - we just check if place is permanently closed or not. But it is in the works under our experimental enrichment API (which is not yet open to public)
I started scraping restaurant websites in Zürich and extracted and hand-checked opening hours in the OpenStreetMap format. The goal is to build a corpus for evaluation purposes which maps website texts to correct opening hours strings for all restaurants in Switzerland. Maybe you can use that to benchmark your own hours extracting system... https://github.com/wipfli/opening-hours/
Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
We are not providing opening times yet - we just check if place is permanently closed or not. But it is in the works under our experimental enrichment API (which is not yet open to public)
I started scraping restaurant websites in Zürich and extracted and hand-checked opening hours in the OpenStreetMap format. The goal is to build a corpus for evaluation purposes which maps website texts to correct opening hours strings for all restaurants in Switzerland. Maybe you can use that to benchmark your own hours extracting system... https://github.com/wipfli/opening-hours/
Appreciate sharing this project - democratizing this data is indeed a very important step. Interesting that you settled on Haiku - did you have a chance to check flash-2.5-lite or gpt-5-nano performance?
Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps
#34I think you should market specifically to people and orgs that already have registered identity and location tracking of their movements, purchases and personal actions while on duty. Then you can practice your ambitious tech, but also not pull innocent people into more detailed tracking and analytics. Many occupations and orgs have already made this bargain, so stick with them instead of trying to get naive people to have their detailed movements and actions tracked. Also probably large parts of East Asia are doing this.
Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps
#35what does “exist” mean in this case.. what is factored to determine a place exist? the building is there? people are speaking about it on social media? they have ad on google that point to the local address etc?
Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I started scraping restaurant websites in Zürich and extracted and hand-checked opening hours in the OpenStreetMap format. The goal is to build a corpus for evaluation purposes which maps website texts to correct opening hours strings for all restaurants in Switzerland. Maybe you can use that to benchmark your own hours extracting system... https://github.com/wipfli/opening-hours/
Appreciate sharing this project - democratizing this data is indeed a very important step. Interesting that you settled on Haiku - did you have a chance to check flash-2.5-lite or gpt-5-nano performance?
Not yet. I can ping you once I do some comparison
Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps
#37what does “exist” mean in this case.. what is factored to determine a place exist? the building is there? people are speaking about it on social media? they have ad on google that point to the local address etc?
It means that there is sufficient evidence found online that this business or poi is located at that address
Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps
#38I think you should market specifically to people and orgs that already have registered identity and location tracking of their movements, purchases and personal actions while on duty. Then you can practice your ambitious tech, but also not pull innocent people into more detailed tracking and analytics. Many occupations and orgs have already made this bargain, so stick with them instead of trying to get naive people t…
Appreciate thinking about it, but I think there's some misunderstanding - we don't track people or movements. VOYGR validates places - for instance, we are able to answer a question if this business still open?
Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps
#39> Their API can't tell you the chef left last month
Your API can do that? Using what data?
Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps
#40> Their API can't tell you the chef left last month Your API can do that? Using what data?
That is our vision of where we want to be. There is a lot of information about the places on the public web which you analyze and cross-reference. And we started to solve this problem with validation API which can tell you if a business or point of interest exists at current location.