I'm building a platform for small-city business directories called TownWire: https://townwire.com
We launched our first location last week and have had a great response so far from business owners and residents alike: https://canandaigua.com
With the current tech climate of AI and big tech, things have gotten so impersonal for the majority of actual people. I'm betting on communities and the small businesses that serve those communities in the medium and long term.
Not at the moment but that's an interesting idea! I didn't want small biz to have to lift a finger to be on the site, so we manually populated 550+ biz to start, and then I paid a photographer to take shots of about 80% of the spots around town.
I really like the idea of contributing those photos back to OpenStreetMap actually... right now I have Google Maps on profile pages but only because we absolutely need the Google Places API for accurate hours (that's really the only spot businesses update current hours at the moment). But I could see swapping for OSM at least for maps in the near future.
We launched our first location last week and have had a great response so far from business owners and residents alike: https://canandaigua.com With the current tech climate of AI and big tech, things have gotten so impersonal for the majority of actual people. I'm betting on communities and the small businesses that serve those communities in the medium and long term.