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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

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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

thanks, looking forward to that!

Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

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Aren't you just scraping Google's data though? Also I looked up a place that doesn't exist and it responded with: "existence_status":"not_exists","open_closed_status":"open"

No, we are not - it is against Google's the terms of service. open_closed_status is an indicator showing if there are sufficient evidences of the closure. If place doesn't exist, then there are likely no evidence of anything related to it, including closure. It could be confusing, but we will iterate on that.

Ok. I don't believe you but I respect the hustle. My only other note is the repo doesn't have any code in it and your github handle has zero history. At least vibe code a python client and put it in there if you want people to take you seriously.

Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

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FWIW it may be legal to break terms of use

It doesn't fit into our plans of building this

Fair enough. Just remember that in case terms of use bother you in the future. Consult your company's lawyer before doing it.

Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

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No, we are not - it is against Google's the terms of service. open_closed_status is an indicator showing if there are sufficient evidences of the closure. If place doesn't exist, then there are likely no evidence of anything related to it, including closure. It could be confusing, but we will iterate on that.

Ok. I don't believe you but I respect the hustle. My only other note is the repo doesn't have any code in it and your github handle has zero history. At least vibe code a python client and put it in there if you want people to take you seriously.

Fair point on the repo - cli is in the plans and coming. We've been focused on the API

Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

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It doesn't fit into our plans of building this

Fair enough. Just remember that in case terms of use bother you in the future. Consult your company's lawyer before doing it.

Completely agree - we have been in constant communication with them

Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

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Aren't you just scraping Google's data though? Also I looked up a place that doesn't exist and it responded with: "existence_status":"not_exists","open_closed_status":"open"

No, we are not - it is against Google's the terms of service. open_closed_status is an indicator showing if there are sufficient evidences of the closure. If place doesn't exist, then there are likely no evidence of anything related to it, including closure. It could be confusing, but we will iterate on that.

what's your plan to get all this data and maintain it?

Re: Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

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No, we are not - it is against Google's the terms of service. open_closed_status is an indicator showing if there are sufficient evidences of the closure. If place doesn't exist, then there are likely no evidence of anything related to it, including closure. It could be confusing, but we will iterate on that.

what's your plan to get all this data and maintain it?

There is a a lot of data publicly available on the web, it can be analyzed with the derived signals stored and then re-checked periodically.
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