I Made a Voice Agent That Plans 5Ks - Like A Runner.

If you’ve ever asked for directions in the Caribbean, you already know the genesis for the name for my app, BigTree. I'm 100% sure it's not just us, but directions are "turn by the next big frangipani tree, and come straight down the road". I'm yet to meet anyone who say, turn at Latitude 51.5151° N, Longitude 0.2185° W, lol. It’s: “Go down the road, turn left at the big tree, pass the painted stone, and it’s right there.” That’s how we think. That’s how we communicate. That’s how we move. And as a runner and a developer building GoodFinish - a race management platform built specifically for small, grassroots Race Directors (50–200 runners, not corporate mega-events) - there's a friction point for race organizers: Mapping the route was the most painful part of the process. Most tools force you into slow, tedious point-and-click plotting. But that’s not how we describe routes. And it’s definitely not how small-town RDs think. So I built something different. What I Built with Google Gemi