š I couldnāt find honest, city-wide reviews online ā so I built Cityphoria
Hey Indie Hackers! š
While planning a move last year, I kept running into the same issue:
I could find reviews for restaurants, attractionsā¦ but not the cities themselves. I could not find sufficient insights on things like:
Is this place walkable?
Howās the cost of living?
Is it safe at night?
Would I actually enjoy living here?
So I built Cityphoria ā a place where you can rate entire cities across multiple categories like safety, walkability, cleanliness, traffic and more. No sign-up needed to browse or read reviews.
š¬ Would love for you to check it out and leave a review for any city you've lived in or visited ā your experience could help someone who's about to move or travel there! It really matters a lot. š
š https://www.cityphoria.com
Happy to hear your thoughts or feature requests too! Thank you for your time!
I like the idea! Curious about how you plan to gather as many (truthful) reviews?
Glad you liked the idea. I would really appreciate if you can leave a review for a city you've visited or lived. It won't take more than a minute.
I'm thinking of reaching out to people directly and asking them to leave reviews.
Do you have any suggestions on how I can get more reviews?
I checked out the site, and it looks good. I was looking for something like this myself, to read reviews from fellow citizens who live in a city, but focus on increasing the user reviews, as there are less reviews to read as of now.
Hope this works.
I agree with @fastlanehacker, the ui looks cool though. What tech stack did you use?
Thanks. React, and shadcn/ui.
Thanks a lot for the comment!
We are working on increasing the reviews, it would mean a lot if you can write a city review yourself. It only works if everyone contributes a little.
This is such a brilliant idea. Iāve had the exact same frustration when researching new places ā itās wild how easy it is to find ābest brunch spotsā but so hard to get a real sense of what itās like to actually live somewhere.
Cityphoria feels like something the internet was missing. Just left my first review š
Thanks for the kind words.
Like the idea but I have one question.
As a tourist, everybody probably tends to see the positive aspects of the city he/she visits and can not compare it in a fair way to the city he/she lives in.
So don't you think it makes the reviews a little bit biased? As an example, I live in Barcelona and I may know some details about here but I can't compare it to Paris that I've recently visited.
This ends up having just 1 or 2 reviews per person (The cities they have lived in).
Finally, I hope it goes really well for you.
Thanks so much for your thoughtful feedback ā really appreciate it!
You're absolutely right that tourist impressions can be biased toward the positives, while locals have a more balanced view of daily life in a city. Thatās something Iāve been thinking about too.
To tackle this, Iām planning to let users tag their reviews as either āvisitorā or āresidentā so others can see the context behind each opinion. What do you think about this approach?
Itās definitely a challenge, but feedback like yours really helps ā so thank you again! š
I think there are various platforms and websites especialized for something I call "touristic comments". For example Google maps, Tripadvisor, and even Booking, and competing with these is not easy, you know.
So if I were you, maybe I'd have focused on "Residency Comments" and position my brand based on that. Sounds super useful for some groups like:
Students who want to immigrate
Professionals who want to rellocate
Companies (managers) who think about expanding internationally
That's what came to my mind. I know you have strategies and plans as well. Just wanted to share my ideas.
Good Luck with that, and you can reach out if you need any help with your marketing / Business analysis procedures.
Great, I check the website but may cities have no data or non existing.
Finally, city reviews that go beyond āgreat foodā ...šŖ