CityFlashback – Explore your city through historical photos

Show HN: CityFlashback – Explore your city through historical photos

CityFlashback – Explore your city through historical photos is a company in show hn launch.

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Hi HNOver the last few weeks I started a small side project — partly to learn frontend development (I usually work as a backend developer in my 9-5), and partly because every time I walk around I keep wondering: “what did this place look like in the past?”Until now I just searched for "<place> historic photos", but they rarely come with coordinates or a way to compare them with how the place looks today. So I built something like a “Wikipedia/GeoGuessr for historical images” — ideally community-maintained over time.Right now, it’s very barebones: - an interactive map to browse the uploaded images - a simple side-by-side image comparatorIt’s still an MVP with a small dataset (mainly Turin, It

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Website: www.cityflashback.com