alt.hn

3/16/2026 at 4:21:07 PM

Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps

by ymarkov

3/16/2026 at 6:53:57 PM

Bog-standard LLM mapping is terrible and I recently added Google Maps to my personal agent to remediate this.

I'd love to try Voygr for fun. Is there a skill defined that I could just swap in Voygr

by bravura

3/16/2026 at 7:40:21 PM

Google also doesn't tell you if a place exists - it just returns the list of possible places which it thinks could be relevant. We have instructions defined for agents to onboard https://github.com/voygr-tech/dev-tools

by ymarkov

3/16/2026 at 7:19:34 PM

I'm not sure I understand : how can you product help for opening times or pictures of my local boulangerie ? What kind of data sources will help you automate the reviewing of its attributes ?

by maelito

3/16/2026 at 7:41:49 PM

We are not providing opening times yet - we just check if place is permanently closed or not. But it is in the works under our experimental enrichment API (which is not yet open to public)

by ymarkov

3/16/2026 at 4:55:37 PM

This is a great idea, albeit one that will be really hard to pull off well but really valuable for developers if you're able to execute.

Definitely kind of a boil-the-ocean high-schlep startup but I would love to see this succeed.

by acombandrew

3/16/2026 at 5:06:21 PM

Thanks, it is going to be fun! :)

by ymarkov

3/16/2026 at 5:21:39 PM

Really cool! We're currently using map and web searches in our agent to gather this info for our tool. Does it support an approximate address? For example, if a plaza can have multiple street numbers, do I need to make a request for each possible address or would it find a certain business with an approximate address?

by amir_karbasi

3/16/2026 at 5:48:09 PM

Thanks! Our initial API works as follows - you provide POI/business name and its address and we are telling you if it exists or not. So if you are looking to check if the plaza is existing, you just need to provide its supposed address. If it is a business within plaza, then an address of that business is required

by ymarkov

3/16/2026 at 6:31:08 PM

Let me rephrase my question. How exact must the address input be? Do I need to include unit numbers? What if the street number is off by a few due to the layout of a plaza?

Using Maps or Web Search APIs, I can find approximate locations for certain businesses based on my input. Can your API work in a similar manner?

by amir_karbasi

3/16/2026 at 4:27:37 PM

I like the agent-first signup via API. Is this meant to be distributed as an agent skill?

by il

3/16/2026 at 4:39:46 PM

Indeed, in the current age we need to build things for agents first. We think that the skills will primarily will be discovered through marketplaces or via web search

by ymarkov

3/16/2026 at 5:34:10 PM

Implementing maps into our app so giving this a shot. How does pricing compare to google maps api?

by frankdenbow

3/16/2026 at 5:44:41 PM

It is on par with Google Maps API, but Google gives you more data. Our terms of service are more flexible - for instance we don't require attribution and deleting our data past 30 days. And we are actively working on adding more info to our APIs

by ymarkov

3/16/2026 at 5:44:52 PM

what kinds of data quality evals do you guys use now? i'm curious to try integrating it

by thesiti92

3/16/2026 at 5:51:57 PM

We are using judges with LLMs and web grounding plus manual grading. We recently did a benchmark on the LLM quality across major AI providers - we plan to open source it soon and will probably open source our API quality check benchmark too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366423

by ymarkov

3/16/2026 at 4:51:35 PM

Who are your customers? Consumer or business?

by macrolet

3/16/2026 at 5:05:56 PM

Both - we're building APIs ultimately designed for AI agents and LLMs that need trustworthy place data and that includes cases from enterprise to personal people's agents

by ymarkov

3/16/2026 at 5:16:37 PM

Its quite funny that you are building an "infinite place profile", you both worked on products used by 100s of millions of people, and yet your website is down from 45 minutes of HN traffic!

Joking, but its a very good idea. Synchronization between the physical world information and digital has been a very hard problem for decades and im sure an agentic approach can 10x the value.

by deepdarkforest

3/16/2026 at 5:49:40 PM

Thanks! Was it truly down? I have checked and I don't see any disruptions

by ymarkov

3/16/2026 at 7:44:51 PM

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3/16/2026 at 5:02:50 PM

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by agent5ravi

3/16/2026 at 6:33:09 PM

We work in this space and have found that, very often, the realities on the ground do not match the digital information, especially when it comes to geospatial data, where businesses exist, what businesses actually exist, and their status. At Rwazi, we have millions of users helping collect on-the-ground data.

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3/16/2026 at 5:31:21 PM

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3/16/2026 at 5:00:33 PM

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3/16/2026 at 7:28:28 PM

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3/16/2026 at 6:09:08 PM

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