Seattle • Food • Nightlife • Travel • Policy

Look Around Seattle

We’re building a visual hub for what’s happening in Seattle — dining and coffee culture, venues & festivals, tourist shortcuts, and straight-talk explainers on city rules and the orgs behind them. Short clips and photo stories first; deeper guides and interviews next.

What’s coming

  • Neighborhood reels: Ballard → Beacon Hill → Belltown
  • Fast lists: “late-night kitchens open now”, “rain-day plans”
  • Interviews: chefs, venue owners, city leaders, local creators
  • Policy explainers: new laws in plain language + who they affect

Live ops run in our private command center; this public page shows top-line signals and roadmap.

Signals (rolling 9 days)

  • Views —
  • Reach —
  • Likes / Comments / Shares —

*Weekly stats will be published; detailed analytics live in private dashboards.

AI & Platform Stack (current & planned)

  • ChatGPT: editorial assist for trims, headlines, Q&A; fast summaries of long interviews.
  • Azure: App Service (hosting today) + Azure OpenAI for orchestration; Front Door later for global entry/TLS.
  • AWS: CloudFront for edge caching; optional Elemental MediaConvert for adaptive-bitrate reels.
  • Google Cloud: Vertex AI (vision/NLP) for scene tags & transcripts; BigQuery for performance analytics.

Multi-cloud lets us pick the best tool for each job while keeping costs and latency tight.

Roadmap highlights

  • Venue & festival directory with real-time status
  • Neighborhood pages: maps, clips, quick reads
  • Creator program + submission portal
  • Weekly “what changed in city policy” brief