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Launched a portal to find rooftop locations – starting with Vietnam

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Still work in progress but the first version of my rooftop discovery & review site is ready. Imagine "Tripadvisor for rooftops & skydecks". Just added the top 150 places across Vietnam and will see where it goes ... Will probably add more countries.

Discover the best #rooftops, #skydecks, #skybars & #skyviews in #vietnam, #danang, #dalat, #halong, #hanoi, #hochiminhcity, #hcmc, #hoian, #hue, #nhatrang, #ninhbinh, #phuquoc, #sapa, #vungtau & elsewhere.

Next: I will contact the owners / operators of the currently listed rooftops to transfer listings to them. I hope that they will add more details like photos and other details which I couldn't find like rooftop floor level in some cases.

Check it out. Your feedback is welcome

Very nice! Nothing else caters to this effectively. Even asking AI results in weak or wrong recommendations.

Well, there is one guide which is manually curated but some data like opening times are outdated. I try to delegate the profiles to the actual owners of rooftop locations like on TripAdvisor or Google Business Profile so that the data remains better up-to-date.

Well I think this is a very wanted utility - tourists especially like rooftop (or high floor) places because they like the combined experience of enjoying good food/drink while overlooking the travel location they're in from a high vantage point. And they've got money they need to spend. So if people know when they use this that it'll quickly give them nearby good rooftop locations, i.e. above all else it's reliable, it'll get uptake.

For that reason I don't think the categorization approach is that helpful. The UI that'd be more likely to work is: visit the site, hit "find rooftop locations near me", it asks for Location permission, you get a list ranked by best rated / closest (and then provide location links for each out to popular map apps).

Filtration based on type of venue could happen after that stage if the visitor cares.

There'd still be the option for manual searching for if e.g. the tourist is planning this ahead.

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