[HN Gopher] Show HN: Ambulate - Detailed Trip Planning
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Show HN: Ambulate - Detailed Trip Planning
Ambulate was created because planning hiking trips using
spreadsheets and various map solutions got chaotic. I wanted an app
to manage and map multi day trip itineraries in the
outdoors/backcountry. Features - Manage itineraries - Add
activities and map markers - Add routes (upload GPX or plot by hand
on map) - Desktop and mobile It is free to try (login using Google
or create a user). Alternatively the slides on the home page give
an idea of the UI. I'll appreciate any thoughts and feedback you
care to share:)
Author : _phnd_
Score : 66 points
Date : 2024-10-22 12:19 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (ambulate.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (ambulate.app)
| qmarchi wrote:
| How does this compare against something like Wanderlog?
|
| Would be nice to see a little more detail on the individual
| features on the main page.
|
| Oh and your copyright is out of date.
| warkdarrior wrote:
| Are any of these apps open source and available for self
| hosting? Currently I am using a combination of Google Maps,
| spreadsheets, Joplin notes, and email to plan my trips. An app
| that replaces all of that and I can self host would be ideal.
|
| Edit: Additional feature would love to see -- merge the trip
| plan with photos from the trip and send draft or publish to
| SSG/blog of choice.
| n4r9 wrote:
| I love this idea. It's simple, effective, and the UI is great.
| The account creation process is such a relief. Editing and saving
| trips is delightfully fast. A few suggestions:
|
| * When adding an activity (or route), I instinctively look for a
| button at the buttom that says "Save activity". And possibly one
| that says "Cancel". Right now it's immediately saved and appears
| on the itinerary. That might be faster, but it leaves me feeling
| anxious about state.
|
| * The ability to share a Trip with others and even to allow
| collaboration would be a game-changer. Might require you to allow
| people to view/create/edit Trips with a "guest" account.
|
| * It would be amazing if there was a way to automatically
| generate driving or public transport directions and have the
| Activity and Route both added into the itinerary.
| 1986 wrote:
| Just a quick note on your landing page on mobile, if you add the
| following CSS to the slides img element it'll look a lot better
| across viewports: max-width: 100%;
| object-fit: contain;
| sanjeevverma1 wrote:
| This is from 2019?
| graysonpike wrote:
| I don't think the slides are enough to view the app's features. I
| don't want to create an account just to see the features. Also
| the auto-advancing slides don't allow me to look closely at the
| UI.
| MASNeo wrote:
| I think this needs a non-registered user page. Not feeling to
| sign up to just have a look.
| mplewis wrote:
| I need more information on what this can do before I'm willing to
| create an account.
| renewiltord wrote:
| You need a demo user. I won't sign up to look at it.
| Supermancho wrote:
| Same. I plan trips in this EXACT way. Annotated maps alongside
| itinerary, marking what's optional vs mandatory, etc.
| beAbU wrote:
| You can put in any email address you want. They don't send a
| verification link.
|
| I signed up with leave.my.personal@data.alone.com
| mdaniel wrote:
| I'm sorry you've not yet tried the plethora of disposable email
| services
|
| Username: wiwhslhypgtjahnblg@nbmbb.com Password:
| wiwhslhypgtjahnblg@nbmbb.com
|
| I'll save you the trouble: it's pretty barebones, but I'm
| guessing it reflects the needs and wants of the author and good
| for them
| renewiltord wrote:
| Thank you.
| serendipty01 wrote:
| Similar: https://waypoint.jakelazaroff.com
| gigel82 wrote:
| We take trips to Europe every couple of years, usually around a
| big city with lots of tourist attractions (like Paris / London /
| etc.); there's a lot of planning involved, sometimes including
| purchasing tickets using various museum / attraction websites and
| it's a PITA to keep track of the itinerary and all the e-tickets,
| timing, etc.
|
| Never found a solution for that particular problem. I tried
| Wanderlog -which sounds good on paper- but it was too clunky to
| use. Needs something simple and clean. I like this UI, but it's
| for a different purpose than going to a city with lots of
| attractions / museums / restaurants / etc.
| tonymet wrote:
| this space has huge potential . On one end you have Google &
| Apple maps that are aimed at efficient commutes. On the other
| hand you have experiencing planning apps like Tripadvisor, All
| Trails, Instagram which help you brainstorm on all the
| adventures.
|
| Eventually you get to a point where you need a detailed itinerary
| of waypoints, maps, resources etc to help guide a multi-week or
| multi-month trip.
|
| Currently no app supports this space. it's almost overwhelming to
| juggle 3 mapping apps (google, apple, gaia), multiple adventure
| apps , google docs, google sheets and try to run a trip .
|
| And having the content all available offline is key. It's the
| worst experience being somewhere unfamiliar, with a taxi driver
| houding you, and you don't know where to go.
| jll29 wrote:
| If anyone needs a good (related) startup idea, here's one for
| free:
|
| Complex trip planning for professionals, but in a different way
| from Ambulate - not hiking trips, but transactions across Web
| sites: I really hate the way how today you cannot "properly" book
| a flight, hotel, train like you would do it in a SQL transaction
| BEGIN TRANSACTION book train book flight
| book hotel COMMIT;
|
| Only if all three are available and execute the reservation
| without error do I also want to execute the other ones; that's a
| prime use case for DB-like transactions, but _across Websites_.
| Because no point getting only the flight if I have no-where to
| stay etc.
| dvt wrote:
| This is what booking.com _kind of_ tries to do, but I think it
| 's actually a pretty hard problem not only because of
| scheduling quirks, but often times stuff being delayed, bad
| weather, etc. will totally throw a wrench into plans.
|
| It would be nice to book a trip with planned contingencies. So
| basically, no matter what happens, you'll have _something_ to
| do. This seems kind of a luxury product though, so I 'm not
| sure how many people would be interested in paying a premium.
| wildrhythms wrote:
| I can't remember if it was booking.com or some other site
| like travelocity, but I booked a hotel for work in Dublin, I
| arrived, and they couldn't find my reservation. After about
| 30 minutes of the desk staff confusingly clicking around on a
| computer they 'found' it and I was able to check in. This was
| a modern hotel too. I stopped using those sites and now only
| book through the hotel's website, even if it costs more.
| jeffreyrogers wrote:
| You can't really do it perfectly unless a single site handles
| all the booking, otherwise you have race conditions, and
| obviously there's no incentive for airlines, hotels, etc. to
| give up booking to a third party since they can upsell you on
| insurance, upgrades, etc.
| kunley wrote:
| I rather think what booking.com is really trying to do is to
| get money from car rental and flight ticket companies for
| embedding links to their sales.
|
| I mean, it's meant to bring benefit to them, not to the user.
| danvoell wrote:
| Packagers do this. V2 is to throw your negotiations agent into
| the mix... we are going to book all 3 of these, now, but you
| need to give us a kickback.
| Karrot_Kream wrote:
| It sounds like the difficulty is mostly in the "book train",
| "book flight", and "book hotel" steps along with the associated
| rollback actions. Booking.com and Expedia probably have built
| their moat around aggregating these steps. If anyone works in
| this industry, I'd love to know if that's not the case.
| Atixx wrote:
| For everyone just having a look, you can create an account with
| any email to check it out as a demo user, no personal information
| needs to be shared
| HomeDeLaPot wrote:
| Darn, I was hoping this was a scooter trip planning app:
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5cffMbZV8E0
| ojbyrne wrote:
| Obligatory link: https://blog.garrytan.com/travel-planning-
| software-the-most-...
| almog wrote:
| I'll start with the least important detail but the first one I
| noticed: the main page features an example image that shows
| mountains scenery that could have been the foothill of the divide
| from the south west (based on the combination of the vegetation
| and peaks), however, the trip planning details are for somewhere
| in Norway which was very confusing until I checked and saw it was
| an AI generated image.
|
| But to the more important stuff: the main tools I've been using
| for trail/route planning (for over 6K miles) are Gaia and
| CalTopo. These tools have a lot of route building tools and
| overlays for both planning and navigation and I guess you don't
| want to replace these tools and if you acknowledge hikers are
| using these tools already and see a way to complement them
| somehow, I think you want to let the user directly reference
| their tracks/routes from within Ambulate as it's unlikely they'd
| like to replicate their work in another tool.
| uladzislau wrote:
| Unusable on mobile unfortunately
| manav wrote:
| I get that ambulate just means to walk around but it gives the
| sense to something medical (as an American).
| allenu wrote:
| That was my reaction as well to seeing the name. It makes me
| think of both ambulance and amputate, which are not good
| associations.
| aspenmayer wrote:
| The usage of the word is reminiscent of ambulatory which has
| a distinctive medical jargon connotation to my ear.
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