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

via Hacker Newsymarkov2h ago

Hi HN, we’re Yarik and Vlad from VOYGR ( https://voygr.tech/ ), working on better real-world place intelligence for app developers and agents. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNIpcWIE0n4 . Google Maps can tell you a restaurant is "4.2 stars, open till 10." Their API can't tell you the chef left last month, wait times doubled, and locals moved on. Maps APIs today just give you a fixed snapshot. We're building an infinite, queryable place profile that combines accurate place data with fresh web context like news, articles, and events. Vlad worked on the Google Maps APIs as well as in ridesharing and travel. Yarik led ML/Search infrastructure at Apple, Google, and Meta powering products used by hundreds of millions of users daily. We realized nobody was treating place data freshness as infrastructure, so we're building it. We started with one of the hardest parts - knowing whether a place is even real. Our Business Validation API ( https://github.com/voygr-tech/dev-tools )

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