LoreDrop: Crowdsourced Local Survival Kits, Powered by Gemini & Google Search
This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Community The Community Travelers and locals everywhere. Whether you're a backpacker in Bangkok, a student moving to a new city, or a local who's tired of watching tourists fall for the same scams — you're part of this community. Every neighborhood has unwritten rules, hidden gems, and survival tips that only locals know. The problem? That knowledge lives in scattered Reddit threads, word of mouth, and hard lessons learned. LoreDrop is for anyone who's ever thought: "I wish someone had told me this before I got here." What We Built LoreDrop is a real-time, location-aware web app where communities drop local knowledge onto a map for others to discover. It's a crowdsourced survival guide that combines community wisdom with AI-generated intelligence. 🛡️ AI Survival Kit (Gemini 3 Flash + Google Search Grounding) Pan the map to any city in the world. LoreDrop's AI mascot Polo (a paper airplane ✈️) auto-generates a Local Survival Kit contai
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