Hyderabad, Nov. 13 -- Every weekend in Hyderabad brings the same quiet debate: where do we actually go? For short-term visitors, forty-eight hours rarely feels like enough to sort through endless food lists and monuments. For newcomers who have just moved here for work, the city can feel locked behind familiar tech-corridor routines. And for lifelong Hyderabadis, familiarity brings its own trap-shrinking a layered metropolis down to the same daily commute, a handful of go-to cafes, and the reliable biryani spot ordered every Friday night.

Built right here in the city by Hyderabad-based creator Chandra Kethan, a new exploration app called Gpsy is trying to solve the weekly stalemate by turning the entire city into a finishable, real-world...