I built GeoQuests where people can request photos of a place
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Hi HN. I had faced an issue where I wanted to know how a place I was travelling to looked like. Like everyone else I looked at google maps and snap chat too. But Google streetview images were usually old and snapchat snaps lacked control. So I built GeoQuests for anyone who wants to know what’s going on on Earth.You drop a quest at a real location. People see it on the map, go there, and complete it by taking a photo when they’re close enough. The app checks the image's GPS coordinatee, time of the image and if the image fits the request's description. I am using Gemini to verify the image.Basically you, pin a place -> others discover it on the map -> they go there and complete the quest with a verified photo.You can browse the map, see public quests and create quests. Wanted some feedback on the project.
HN · launched Feb 28, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 1 view
Niche: photo sharing and camera apps · 206 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -20% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Marketplace
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes GeoQuests is a standard marketplace/bounty web app where users post location requests on a map and others upload matching photos, easily built with modern full-stack web frameworks and cloud storage.
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Launched 111 days after the earliest competitor.
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