# Directions API Projects at AI Tinkerers

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## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [NextSpot: Travel-proof recommendations powered by Google Maps reviews understanding (not keyword search)](https://atlanta.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_Lr0MUd5Hy_4)

NextSpot is a live web demo that recommends similar places in a new city by understanding what your favorite spot is known for from public signals (reviews + description). In the demo, I’ll enter a favorite place and a target location (e.g., Dallas/Houston). NextSpot extracts the place’s “signature attributes,” generates a compact intent query, searches locally within a strict radius, and returns recommendations constrained to the same business category (e.g., cafe → cafe, salon → salon). The result is a recommender that works across many categories without hardcoding for any single domain. In 5 minutes, I’ll show the working web app and a short walkthrough of the backend internals: 1) pulling place metadata + top reviews, 2) extracting “signature attributes” into structured fields (not freeform text) 3) turning those fields into a constrained search query, 4) retrieving candidates from Places within a hard geo-radius, then 5) ranking results with embeddings + a lightweight re-ranker

- Event context: Co-Co-Code & Cocoa: The AI Tinkerers Atlanta Holiday Meetup — 2025-12-16 — Atlanta
- Public talk page: https://atlanta.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_Lr0MUd5Hy_4

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