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Thruhike is heading to Austin for SXSW next week! A few exciting updates: 1. We’re officially launching our Austin/Central Texas region next week with a curated local directory featuring places, products, lifestyle inspiration, and recommendation lists from everyday users, local voices, brands, and our expert curation team. 2. Local businesses and brands in Austin are sharing exclusive deals and perks on our platform—don’t miss out! Make an account at thruhike.io to curate your everyday—without always relying on noisy social or big tech marketplaces. 3. I’ll be at SXSW and would love to connect! If you're attending or have a cool event I should stop at, message me on LinkedIn so we can coordinate. Excited to see how Thruhike can bring recommendations, community partnerships, and curated journeys to make Austin a little bit weirder. See you there! XOKatherine P.S. If you're a business or brand with ties to Austin or know of one looking to collaborate with local businesses, attract more foot traffic, or boost revenue, reach out! Our platform is free to use, designed to be a win-win-win—driving growth for communities including locally-driven businesses, partners, and us. (Huge shout out to Whitney Lawson-LaMonica & Erica Mellon for getting us up and running in Austin)

Stories go beyond tech. AI is great and we use it in our technology at Thruhike but it doesn't beat the authenticity of listening to authentic voices and immersing in destinations on screen and in real life. For the fantastical, dream fulfilling world of narrative stories, it will do wonders for the bounds of our imagination. But for the everyday, it may help the creative process but it will never take the place of the human emotions that bridge connection through image and sound. We have our own creative arm at Thruhike (Thruhike Studios -https://lnkd.in/eUa6h72X) that we hope can tell more of these stories but we need your help! We're on a quest to find compelling stories and storytellers creating amazing content about local businesses, communities, and the magic of everyday life. We're in the midst of Season 2 of production on The Alchemy Podcast with Karen Darke as well as a number of community shorts on local businesses and brands around the country but we're hoping to bring more "streams" (Thruhike pun, yes) to our platform and to the businesses we support. Our ask to you is - do you have a story to tell or are you part of an amazing lifestyle brand or business? And/or are you a creator that films local businesses, brands and communities? We'd love to chat with you (message me on LinkedIn), learn more, and explore how we can partner.

The first episode of the The Alchemy Pod with Karen Darke features guest, Steve Bate MBE. AND did you know that he just competed in the Paris 2024 Paralympics in the Men's B 4000m Individual Pursuit? And not only did he compete but he won silver and broke a world record? Check out his thoughts on pushing the limits of body and mind: https://lnkd.in/eCUcwuHW Karen Darke Thruhike Thruhike Studios Blimp - A Creative Film Company

There you go. Lots of work to be done here. In fairness, this was ChatGPT testing only, but since most of travel itinerary chatbots are using OpenAI API, likely the same results. Unless someone is training on proprietary corpus, this is the result. For now. Source: https://lnkd.in/efsZ34F5