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I built GeoQuests where people can request photos of a place

Details

External ID
47191259
Source
HN
Company
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Product
I built GeoQuests where people can request photos of a place
Website domain
geoquests.io
Launched
Feb. 28, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.10512129380053908
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

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.

Enrichment

Theme
Vertical
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Function
Marketplace
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
crowdsourced photo request platform
Manually corrected
False

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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