[HN Gopher] Show HN: I built a web app to open source travel iti...
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Show HN: I built a web app to open source travel itineraries
I made TripGeeks, a website where you create and share travel
itineraries. Would love to hear any feedback you might have.
Thanks!
Author : onounoko
Score : 75 points
Date : 2024-03-28 14:57 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (tripgeeks.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (tripgeeks.app)
| leland wrote:
| Sounds interesting, any way to demo without creating an account?
| onounoko wrote:
| Hi, do you mean demo creating trips? if so, unfortunately,
| that's not possible right now without an account.
| danpalmer wrote:
| Nice one, this looks like a good starting point for trips.
|
| One thing I'm confused by is the "$$$" signs on trips. They seem
| to be roughly the inverse of what I'd expect. My guess is that
| these are trying to combine too many aspects - travel distance,
| duration, price perception of the destination - and that because
| of this they're somewhat meaningless.
|
| Example, Paris for 3 days is $$$, and LA for 3 days is $$. Paris
| is definitely cheaper than LA when you're there assuming you
| don't do a tour of tourist traps, it has cheap public transport,
| and for me it's a cheap train journey away. Conversely, LA is an
| expensive international flight away, expensive to stay/eat out
| in, and expensive to get around. I assume the $ signs are this
| way around on basis of US tourists travelling domestically?
|
| In a similar vein, I suspect the budget part of the site just
| won't translate well. Budgets might vary by an order of magnitude
| depending on where you're coming from, what sort of transport
| options you use while you're there, whether you choose to stay in
| upmarket hotels or cheap places, which restaurants you go to,
| etc.
| onounoko wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback!
|
| The dollar sign scale is meant to indicate what kind of trip
| the creator planned: budget vs luxury. But you are right, it
| doesn't really account for all the nuances of a trip. I was
| hoping having the trip budget section would help as you could
| get an average amount spent for each of the categories:
| lodging, food, activities, transportation. You gave me a lot to
| think about though, thanks for that!
| danpalmer wrote:
| I think budget/luxury tags would be good without being too
| price specific, although I imagine many trips would be
| both/neither.
|
| Perhaps you could have tags for things like budget, luxury,
| family appropriate/kid friendly, educational, relaxing, etc.
| madeofpalk wrote:
| What fortunate timing - I see this as I'm procrastinating putting
| together a travel itinerary for my parents!
| relyks wrote:
| Wanderlog is also really good for this type of thing:
| https://wanderlog.com/. I'm a pretty active user of it, but
| TripGeeks also looks cool
| figmert wrote:
| Albeit slow, it's an amazing app. Even solo trips are really
| good to plan on this. I wish there was a self hosted version of
| it.
| clawoo wrote:
| I have to say, it's really difficult to search for London. I got
| a ton of results from various boroughs from London, I got some
| London from Arkansas, I never got London proper.
|
| If I type "london" and hit return, I end up on the unfiltered
| "Latest" page.
| onounoko wrote:
| Thanks for pointing that out, I know it's very clunky to use at
| the moment. It's something I'm looking to fix in my next
| update.
| browningstreet wrote:
| Same for Budapest. One Budapest would be fine.
| soco wrote:
| That seems something happening in quite some other apps,
| missing the obvious thing that when I as a tourist search for
| "London" I definitely don't care/don't know about Brixton,
| Leyton or Thingamajig. I'd be looking for the Big Ben and the
| Tower and other such tourist traps. If I wanted some hidden
| treasure in Crystal Palace then I'd have searched for _that_.
| funmi wrote:
| Came here to post exactly this. I searched for Barcelona, and
| the most widely known Barcelona was 6th in the list:
| https://i.postimg.cc/tJyLvCbk/Screenshot-2024-03-28-at-5-19-...
|
| Not a huge deal, but some type of weighting like what maps and
| flight search apps have might be a good addition.
| ivanjermakov wrote:
| I think it's better to link homepage, not login page.
| pushedx wrote:
| I recently booked a trip in India through a travel agent, and
| they shared the itinerary via https://travefy.com/. I enjoyed
| using the app to review the schedule for the upcoming day and
| that sort of thing. No idea how much of my fee went towards that.
| carlosjobim wrote:
| In your opinion, what is the advantages of such an app compared
| to a PDF?
| CtrlAltDelete51 wrote:
| Flexibility for changes being reflected in realtime without
| needing to version PDFs.
|
| I use TripIt as the foundation for all of mine.
| funmi wrote:
| I also use TripIt and am a big fan of:
|
| - You can subscribe to your TripIt calendar, so that all of
| your trip details automatically show up on your personal
| calendar app. You only have to do this once (not for every
| trip). If like me, you use your calendar to run your life,
| this is a huge productivity benefit.
|
| - You can forward your flight confirmation emails and
| accommodation booking emails from most hotels, trip booking
| sites (e.g. Booking.com, Kayak, Amex Travel) and even
| Airbnb/VRBO/etc. to TripIt, and they parse the contents and
| add the details to your itinerary
|
| - For me, it's now become my source of record for when I was
| last in/out of the country, which I find super useful for US
| immigration stuff (green card, global entry, citizenship
| applications, etc.) and some non-US visa applications too
|
| - If your company uses Concur for travel/expense management,
| you can link your work account as well so that work trips
| show up there too
|
| - I think this might be a Pro feature, but you can get alerts
| of gate changes, flight delays, baggage carousel assignments,
| etc., oftentimes even before your airline informs you
|
| - I don't use this as much, but you can also invite people to
| individual trips and they automatically get all itinerary
| updates
|
| There's lots more benefits, but these are my top ones that
| come to mind. The UI is super old school, which I don't love,
| but the convenience far outweighs this and some of the other
| cons for me.
| eetus wrote:
| A bit of a nit: the background image features Machu Picchu, but
| searching for Peru yields no results.
| mattmar96 wrote:
| looking good!
| Mystery-Machine wrote:
| I have read the HN title and had no clue what was it that you
| built. Maybe changing "open source" to "open-source", or even
| better, figure out what you actually wanted to say and rephrase
| that part, as I don't _think_ this constitutes for open-source.
| It's just confusing instead of helping.
|
| So I clicked the link...and landed on the signup page. Nothing
| else. Just a signup form. Would be good to have some context
| before asking me to sign up. Maybe some screenshots, some
| features mentioned...
| onounoko wrote:
| Hey, sorry about that. It's actually supposed to take you to
| the landing page. It works on the desktop but for mobile
| devices it's throwing up that signup modal. I'll fix that soon.
| Thanks for pointing that out. Clicking on "home" will close out
| the login screen and take you to the landing page.
| sss111 wrote:
| haha i like this, its like pcpartpicker but for travel!!
| pwillia7 wrote:
| Also see https://www.localeur.com/
| oldtimesnever wrote:
| Hey! your app looks really cool, and what really amazed me is how
| fast it loads (I won't make any opinion on how many trips or
| itineraries it has now). As regarding UI a few tips: - when
| opening an itinerary, it'll be great if I can close it just
| clicking outside it. - when searching for a city/place, it'll be
| great if the photo changes to actually that place ;) (I was
| somehow confused that always I see the machu pichu photo).
| Maultasche wrote:
| It would be awesome to have a map view where I could visualize
| the itinerary and the times and distances between each place.
|
| It's a lot easier to plan an itinerary (especially one when
| driving over many days) when I can see where and when I'll be
| with the distances and travel times. Creating overly ambitious
| itineraries where there's not enough time at each place can be a
| problem.
| Zambyte wrote:
| What does "open source" mean here?
| joshmlewis wrote:
| It means being able to make travel itineraries public /
| shareable for other people to use for their own.
| onounoko wrote:
| Yes! Exactly. You can copy other people's entire itinerary, a
| single day, or a single event and paste them into your own.
| There's also ways to communicate with the trip creator if you
| wanted to collaborate that way. Or you could invite people to
| build a trip together.
| underlipton wrote:
| I think it would be nice to allow for options with regard to
| stops. It wouldn't be any fun for a particular itinerary to
| become so popular that the businesses listed on it couldn't keep
| up or had their ambiance ruined. Defaulting to "template"
| itineraries where some stops had a choice of venues might
| alleviate some of that pressure. I see that some itineraries have
| alternatives in a given stop's description, but there's no place
| to list contact info for them without it becoming crowded.
| onounoko wrote:
| Not sure if this addresses what you are getting at but there's
| a feature that lets you overlap stops and it'll turn that
| particular stop into a carousel that you can use to browse
| other suggestion. This was added after a lot of the itineraries
| were already created which is why the alternatives exist in the
| description.
| marsbars241 wrote:
| Looks pretty nice, but I do have two things that would be great
| to see: Being able to open an itinerary in a new tab, and being
| able to click off the pop-up to go back to the itinerary list.
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