LookUp: Explore Your City
Collect your city's landmarks, one walk at a time
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Collect your city's landmarks, one walk at a time
7 followers
Your city is a treasure hunt. Thousands of landmarks wait on your map as grey ghosts. Find one, photograph it, and it turns to colour and joins your collection, with its story. Complete sets, follow a walking order, fill in your city. Free to start.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Jamie, and I made LookUp to try and get to know my city better.
It started with a habit: walking past the same sandstone tenements and civic palaces every day and realising I couldn't say what any of them were, or why they looked the way they did. Google Lens would tell me the style of a famous one. Nothing would tell me about the ordinary building on my street or how I could find out about others, so I built LookUp.
LookUp reads the building itself. Point the camera at anything with a roof and in a few seconds you get its architectural style, its period and materials, and "the tell": the one visual clue that lets you recognise the same style on the next street.
Then it becomes a game. Every building you capture joins your collection and lights up on your map. There are sets to complete (every church near you, every bridge, every theatre) with a walking route to follow. Over 1M landmarks worldwide and the greats of each city are drawn from real laser-survey data rather than clip art.
What's free: unlimited quick readings, the full map, and your 25 most recent captures. Pro adds the full readings, building stories read aloud as you walk, the laser-scanned silhouettes and your whole collection kept for good. There's a 7-day trial, and a lifetime option for people who hate subscriptions as much as I do.
I built it for the RevenueCat Shipaton with Expo, Claude, Supabase and MapLibre. I'd love to know which city you want next, and whether the readings hold up on your street. I'll be here all day :)