SudoStudio

Chitchat Tour is a walking guide that tells you short, sourced stories about the ordinary things on the street you're on — convenience stores, rooftop water tanks, red and green post boxes, scooter waiting boxes — instead of landmarks. Travellers spend most of a trip walking between sights, and that's where the real questions come up: why is there a water tank on every roof? Why are there two colours of post box? But you can't search for something you don't know the name of, and chatbots only answer what you think to ask. Chitchat Tour speaks first. As you walk, it looks at what's around you (OpenStreetMap), scores what is likely to be new to you given your hometown, and tells one short story with a comparison to home — then stays quiet so you can keep walking. What's the same as home gets skipped: a Tokyo visitor and a New York visitor on the same corner hear different things. Every line has a source you can open; if no trusted source exists, it says nothing. You can also ask by voice, point your camera at something to turn it into a die-cut sticker with its story, get walked to a destination with stories on the way, and keep every walk as a page in a notebook. It runs in the browser on any phone, with a simulated walk in Taipei for anyone to try: https://chitchat-tour.vercel.app