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hugpoint.io – Find the fairest meeting spot for a group

hugpoint.io – Find the fairest meeting spot for a group

by prunax·Mar 5, 2026·1 point·5 comments
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AI Analysis

●●SolidSolve My ProblemBig Brain

Isochrone fairness scoring beats anchoring bias, but US-only transit limits reach.

Strengths
  • •Isochrone-based fairness score directly addresses anchor bias in group decisions — genuinely clever framing of an overlooked UX problem.
  • •Per-person travel mode support (walk/bike/drive/transit) respects real logistics, not naive Euclidean distance.
  • •URL hash state sharing eliminates account friction while maintaining searchability.
Weaknesses
  • •Heavily biased toward United States; international transit coverage severely limits utility outside major US metros.
  • •No clear differentiation from Google Maps's 'Directions' tab or existing meetup apps like When2Meet — core value hinges on fairness ranking, which may be invisible to most users.
Category
Productivity
Target Audience

Groups planning meetups in cities with transit infrastructure

Similar To

Google Maps · When2Meet · Meetup.com

Post Description

I built hugpoint.io to solve a specific problem: when a group tries to decide where to meet, the first person to suggest somewhere implicitly anchors the decision around their own location.

Everyone else agrees to avoid friction. Someone ends up with a disproportionate commute. Nobody mentions it.

The tool calculates each person's reachable zone using real transit data (not straight-line distance), finds the intersection, and surfaces Google Places results inside that overlap — ranked by a Fairness Score that measures how equally reachable a venue is for everyone in the group. Technical decisions worth discussing:

Isochrone-based rather than Euclidean midpoint — crow-flies distance is meaningless in a city with asymmetric transit

Per-person travel mode support — one person cycling, another on the Subway, a third driving

Session state serialised to URL hash so any search is shareable without accounts

Built entirely with AI tools as a non-technical founder — happy to talk about that process if useful

No accounts, no paywall, works in the browser.

Would genuinely appreciate feedback on the technical approach and any edge cases you'd throw at it.

hugpoint.io

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