SightHearing
SightHearing is a navigation app that turns a journey through a city into an audio-guided discovery experience. As users move along their route, the application surfaces nearby points of interest and provides real-time audio stories and contextual information about the places around them. The experience can either follow the user's chosen route or adapt it to highlight interesting nearby locations, combining navigation with spontaneous place discovery.
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My Contributions
- As a full-stack developer, I contributed to the design and implementation of the application, working across the user-facing experience and the core logic behind route-based navigation, location-aware place discovery, and audio storytelling.
Tech Stack
- TypeScript - Core application logic and frontend development
- HTML - Application structure and interface layout
- Google Maps API - Route calculation, map visualisation, geolocation, and nearby point-of-interest discovery
- OpenAI API - Reasoning and contextual analysis for selecting relevant points of interest and generating route-aware storytelling
Features
- Location-aware navigation
- Real-time audio storytelling
- Point-of-interest discovery
- Dynamic route exploration
- Contextual place information
- Responsive web interface
Project Status
Completed hackathon project - SightHearing was built in under 24 hours as a hackathon project. It was a small experimental project I wanted to build for fun, using the limited timeframe as an opportunity to quickly turn the idea of combining navigation, place discovery, and audio storytelling into a working prototype.
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Narrated Walking Tours
SightHearing combines route-aware navigation, point-of-interest discovery and generated audio stories so users can explore a city through contextual narration.
