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Show HN: Travel site made with Midjourney, GPT4 and Svelte

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78 pointslevmiseri35 comments

This is actually fantastic. But I'm saying this not for the reasons you might expect.

As others have noted, lots of inaccurate information here. The AI has stuff that it is regurgitating that is totally out of date, or just plain wrong.

But, if you are concerned by that, then you don't know why travel sites exist. They exist to sell you something. All of these existing sites are lying, whether it is about the hotels or the amenities, or whatever. You are getting a manipulated filter at best, or just advertising at worst.

For this reason, this is, in my opinion, the best application of AI I've seen this year. It's an equivalent product in almost every way, but probably costs 1/100th the price to create for anyone without AI. The future of travel sites. The second order effects will be terrifying to behold.

> All of these existing sites are lying

that's a weirdly cynical take. Even with advertisement, it's not all equivalent to lies. I've been to plenty of travel sites that sold me stuff that actually turned out great and mostly accurate.

I built a travel site, we don't like. Please stop generalizing. Thanks.

Data about people, culture, language, tourist hotspots and whatever is slow-changing, so I think this is a good application for AI. Congrats.

Travel conditions, currency value etc, now those tend to surprise us more quickly and the cutoff point of the training set might lead to misleading info.

All in all, as a cat visitor, I find this amusing.

The code for the website is open source: https://github.com/riesvile/meoweler-fe

I really like the file `meoweler-fe/src/lib /cunts.json`

Tells me there are 39105000 cunts in Japan!

//I think I'm reading this data correctly…

Neat that’s cool.

It did made me feel quite sad to see a label “LGBTQ Tolerated”. Wish people could just travel anywhere and be welcome regardless who they’re.

The design and implementation is really nice! I love the electrical socket tile.

Tours, France: great sky, but mostly "undefined".

https://meoweler.com/frae/tours

Fun site. Funny I accidentally came across the catmosphere cafe mentioned on there for Sydney. Got a flat white to take away but you have to book to hang out with the cats.

Nice! I’m looking at an AI website designer product this morning!

Any competitor AI service stuck in waitlist is vaporware, things that are live are refreshing

edit: the AI website generator worked very well, but didn’t seem to let you download the site or the code it generated. I want react or nextjs code. Pass

I might use it for wireframes though. Bye bye PMs and UX teams.

This is actually an amazing site, I’m living in Georgia now, and was surprised about how good the info was. Great job

Where are you getting the data for things like "internet situation" and expense? Are you using third-party APIs or is that content output from GPT4? Would be interested in reading about how you put it all together (and your motivation!).

The internet situation content comes directly from GPT4 with a decent accuracy. For something like the 'economy' content I'm using combination of GPT and some 3rd party things like the BicMac index.

I wrote about how Meoweler was made here: https://kvak.io/meoweler

I’m from Napoli and I think its quite accurate expect for walking hostile? Why? I walk for hours every day, ignore bike and public transport and just walk around with friends why is it reported as walking hostile?:(

Ha! As someone who has been to Naples a few times, I fully support the 'walking hostile' sentiment! The amount of wild traffic through the narrow streets and having to constantly look over your shoulder makes it a horrendous walking experience compared to other European cities.

I see.. bit of a shame I guess, we’re used to narrow streets both for walking and driving, makes sense that one born and raised doesn’t live the same issues/experiences

Don't worry, Seoul and Taipei are the same (shared pedestrian traffic alleys + scooters roaming sidewalks and jump scaring pedestrians) with bonus obstacles like pedestrian hostile traffic lights but they are listed as walkable, if I were you I would not pay serious attention to this garbage

Everything that is built with Svelte, I'm going to check it out even if I have no interest in the thing itself.

How much did it cost to generate the content for this site? Would love to hear the breakdown of costs Midjourney vs. GPT, etc.

Added the prices to the article: ~$50 for generating content for 5000 cities ~$90 for all images (Midjourney subscription)

Top "off the beaten path" recommendation for NYC? A museum (Morbid Anatomy) that closed 7 years ago.

Very cool. Liverpool is undefined though, I guess nobody thought of visiting :(

>Flint, United States

>Drink up, problem solved.

I laughed

I checked the city of Córdoba in Argentina [1] to pick something outside the well-known ones (and even then, it's the second or third biggest city in the country). The results are not good:

* Opening picture: Not an accurate representation of Córdoba, it's way too hilly. Also, there's a fluffy abomination of nature on the right.

* "Land of Tango Thrills and Siesta Chills": this is so stereotypical as to be almost offensive. I met exactly one person who knows how to dance tango in about 10 years.

* "Stretch those paws in Cordoba, a purr-fect playground for curious cats seeking whisker-tingling adventures!": this is completely information free.

* According to TravelSafe [2] there's a medium risk of muggings and high risk of pickpockets so I would not recommend "lounging in sunbathed plazas" as a tourist unless you know which ones are safe.

* Off the beaten path: "Feria de Mataderos" is in Buenos Aires, 700km away, and I challenge you to look at the Google Maps pictures of "El Bosquecito" and tell me it's a good place for tourists. Also, which "El Bosquecito" in Google Maps is the correct one? Because there are several.

* "Get lost in the maze-like streets of the Old Town": that's Prague you are thinking of. The streets in the old part of Córdoba are almost perfectly square.

* "Taste the city's typical dish: locro": Yeah, no. There is locro to be found, but it's not Córdoba's typical dish.

* Lightning round question: why is Córdoba "LGBTQ friendly" while Río Cuarto (same Province, 200k South) is "LGBTQ tolerated"?

And since we are in Argentina, the pictures for Posadas [3] and Resistencia [4] are offensively wrong. The description for Corrientes [5] (whose content and picture are not any better, including a "mainstream attraction" that's 300km away and in a different Province) reads "Where the Tango Comes Alive". Seeing a pattern yet?

This is to me a cautionary tale of the type of bad content that AI will generate (or, realistically, is already generating). I give it points for having a "generated with AI" sign, but I'm not looking forward to even more content claiming that everyone in Argentina dances tango with their pet cows.

[1] https://meoweler.com/arga/cordoba

[2] https://www.travelsafe-abroad.com/argentina/cordoba/

[3] https://meoweler.com/arga/posadas

[4] https://meoweler.com/arga/resistencia

[5] https://meoweler.com/arga/corrientes

Imagine visiting a locale because an AI told you that it was LGBTQ friendly only to end up in jail because it was a hallucination.

so the splash image is generated by midjourney.

@levmiseri are you using APIs, or have fine-tuned prompts for each of the location? do share these as well. the github doesn't include this.

The AI generation code with all prompts is available on github as well: https://github.com/riesvile/meoweler-content

The website is beautiful. Thank you for sharing the source code. I took a look at this source code and could not find where you batch-processed the midjourney API calls. I am interested to learn whether you generated the midjourney images by hands or by scripts.

Midjourney sadly doesn't have public API. The images were prompted manually via Discord. Thanks to permutations [0], I could do 20 images at a time, but it's still a painful process. (The generation of the permutation strings is in the shared code)

[0] https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/permutations

I see. Thanks a lots for the detailed info. Many cats you generated look quite mindful.

Very cool and easy to use but oh so inaccurate. Bali is not in India.

I love the highlight of wifi quality for each city!

Could you be more specific about how much is GPT4?

Content for larger cities is generally GPT4. For smaller ones I went with GPT3.5. If I were to do another pass and get fresh data, I'd probably use GPT4 for everything as the difference in content quality is noticeable.

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