YatraMind
YatraMind is an AI-powered, multilingual web app that acts as a local guide for people new to a place.
Core trick
Ranks live Google Places results with Gemini by quality, price, and convenience, then turns picks into multi-stop itineraries.
Description
YatraMind is an AI-powered, multilingual web app that acts as a local guide for people new to a place. Users set their location, time, and budget - the app fetches nearby places in real-time and uses Gemini AI to rank them by quality, affordability, and convenience. They can build multi-stop itineraries and get Gemini-generated travel plans with step-by-step directions and clickable Google Maps links. A food discovery module offers diet-aware restaurant suggestions, local delicacies, festival food alerts, photo-based food identification, and an AI chatbot for on-the-go queries - all with multi-language translation support.
README excerpt
# 🌍 YatraMind — AI-Powered Travel & Food Discovery > **Your intelligent travel companion** — discover restaurants, plan itineraries, explore nearby places, and get AI-powered food recommendations, all in one place. Built with **Django**, **Google Gemini 2.0 Flash AI**, **Google Maps/Places API**, and **OpenStreetMap** data. --- ## ✨ Features ### 🍽️ Smart Restaurant Discovery - **Nearby restaurants** with real-time distance, rating, and price filters via Google Places API - **AI Local Delicacies** — Gemini identifies signature dishes of your area and finds restaurants serving them - **Famous Restaurant Finder** — AI-curated list of iconic/legendary restaurants nearby - **AI Review Summaries** — bullet-point sentiment analysis of Google reviews, enriched with food blog knowledge - **Photo Recognition** — upload a food/restaurant photo → AI identifies the dish (with calories, spice level, ingredients) or venue (ambiance, price range) - **Festival Food Alerts** — AI detects upcoming festivals (personalized by religion) and suggests traditional foods ### 💬 AI Food Chat Assistant - Natural-language conversational assistant powered by Gemini - Context-aware: knows what restaurants are on your screen - Handles complex queries: *"Navratri vrat food"*, *"keto-friendly under $10"*, *"date night with no shellfish"*, etc. ### 🗺️ Itinerary Builder - **Route corridor discovery** — finds interesting places within a configurable corridor along your route (not just a radius) - **Knowled