Comment by flyingpuffin

2 years ago

I created this website (https://unexploredhq.com/) to find unexplored places for travel with my SO. Instead of going to cliched places like Paris in France, I can input an area or region and then select attributes of this place (eg Sunny, Beach, Mountains) .. and see the list of places which satisfy my constraints. In future, I plan to integrate a Flight API so that I can add a constraint of finding places within a budget.

I am a ML researcher/engineer at heart, so building out the attributes by scraping the web was straightforward (have over 26000 locations indexed). But learn React as a hobby (with help from ChatGPT) to build this :)

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smeej  2 years ago

I might be misunderstanding, but I tried what seemed like a pretty basic search, selecting Eastern Europe region and lake and hiking for attributes, and it didn't come up with anything.

Are there more nuances I should be aware of when trying to search?

  • flyingpuffin  2 years ago

    Thanks for your feedback. Indeed, something is off for Eastern Europe query .. (first time I have discovered this issue). I will inspect the backend. Feel free to try it with a country name or entire 'Europe' in the meanwhile.