poqui VS Diffee

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Audio guides cover the Colosseum. Nobody covers the street you took to get there, or the main square of a town you'd never heard of. poqui does: press one button anywhere and, a few seconds later, a voice tells you about ninety seconds of history about exactly where you're standing. Then it stops and points your eyes at something you can actually see. Each story is written only from what's on record, mostly Wikipedia, in the place's own language as well as yours. Every name and every number must appear in the sources, which sit under the story, and legends are marked "Tradition, not verified".

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Audio-tour apps follow routes that someone recorded for the famous places. poqui needs no route: it works on any street, in any town, whenever you're curious, and it stops after ninety seconds. Fifty European cities have nine hand-picked places each, read and corrected by a person; everywhere else, poqui still finds the story of your spot. After a story you can ask it questions. There is no account, no ads and no tracking, and your first three stories are free.

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Curious travellers who like to wander a city on their own, without a group or a route to follow, and anyone who wants to know the story of the street they live on. poqui is for iPhone, in English and Italian.

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We love to travel. And we remember an old machine you used to find in museums and beside monuments: a telephone. You picked up the receiver, and a voice told you the story of what you were looking at.

We missed it. It made you stop and look at the place in front of you. But it stayed where it was, and few places had one.

So we made poqui, to do the same thing in a modern way. It is always in your pocket, and it comes with you as you move around. Press the button anywhere, and the place tells you its story.

Po’ qui is Italian for “a little, here.” Stop a little, here: that is all it asks.

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An iPhone app in React Native on Expo, written in TypeScript, with two native Swift modules: App Intents for the Action Button and Siri, and Apple Maps' points of interest. A TypeScript API on Vercel finds what Wikipedia says about a spot, in the place's own language as well as the listener's, has a language model write the story, checks every name and number against the sources, and has a natural voice read it aloud.