CH 01 — Lowdown

LOWDOWN

Every place has a story. Turn it on and drive.

Live — Denver, expanding nationwide
Open ambient-roadtrip-denver.netlify.app ↗
Deep Dive
The Problem

You drive past history, legends, and landscape every day and never know it. Trip apps make you plan. Podcasts ignore where you are. The information is out there — it just doesn't know where you are.

Status

4,600+ narrated stories across 1,000+ towns and cities, 50 states, and all 63 national parks. Live and running in Denver — rolling out nationwide.

How It Works

Lowdown reads your phone's GPS position and heading and narrates the history, landmarks, scenery, and local lore around you in real time. No planning, no taps. Start driving and it talks. As you move between places, Lowdown hands off seamlessly — the next story picks up the moment the last one fades. It's ambient in the truest sense: it runs in the background and surfaces only what's relevant to where you are right now.

The Stack
SwiftUI — iOS Background Audio + GPS React + Vite Turso / libSQL Cloudflare R2
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