CityScope: Discover your city with AI-powered routes.

Turn everyday runs and rides into new adventures. CityScope uses AI to create personalised routes through interesting places, helping you discover more of your city. Powered by Google Gemini, Google Maps and Google Routes.

How did you use Cloud Run for this launch?

CityScope uses Google Cloud Run to host and scale its Python FastAPI backend, which powers the AI-driven city exploration and route planning experience. Cloud Run provides the serverless infrastructure for handling user requests, orchestrating Google Gemini, and integrating with Google Maps Grounding and the Google Routes API to generate personalised running and cycling routes. Using Cloud Run allowed me to focus on building the AI agent and geospatial functionality rather than managing servers, while benefiting from automatic scaling and a cost-efficient deployment model. The result is a lightweight, cloud-native application that connects generative AI with real-world mapping services to help people discover their cities in new ways.

Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I’m excited to introduce CityScope, an AI-powered city exploration tool that helps you discover new places through personalised running and cycling routes. I built CityScope around a simple idea: exploring a city should be about more than getting from A to B. Whether you’re heading out for a morning run, a weekend cycle, or just want to discover somewhere new, CityScope helps turn an ordinary route into an adventure. Under the hood, CityScope brings together Google Gemini, Google Maps, Google Routes and Cloud Run to generate routes that take interesting places and local discoveries into account. This started as a personal engineering project exploring how AI agents, real-world geographic data and mapping services could work together to create something genuinely useful. It’s still evolving, and I’d love your feedback! 🚴 What would you like to see CityScope do next? Thanks for checking it out, and happy exploring! 🌍 — Tim

How did you use Cloud Run for this launch?