Another comment I have is that the product description on the web page is sparse, so I was hesitant to sign up. Maybe there should be an "About" section?
A modern TripIt replacement is overdue and I will be glad to try alternatives.
Instead, it can be used to take various formats and output a common structured format that a program can then use to do the rest
If you want to process contracts or business letters... Then yes, that'd be a good choice.
Full disclosure: I'm one of the founders
On plus side, as someone suggested LLMs like ChatGPT should be a very good fit for email parsing and easy to integrate (e.g. ChatGPT API asking to output JSON).
But yes I do generally like it even if a lot of chit chat, appointment reminders, and the like have migrated to messaging.
For launches like this, the blocker for me signing up is seeing an example of the UI. Productivity tools, especially ones for trip planning are so heavily design + vibes based that I'd need to see what it looks like before considering how it would be helpful for me. I think others might feel similar as well.
Congrats on the launch and good luck!
Would be nice to make these optional. Just throw me into the canvas and if I want to add people then make email required.
Worst case (often the case) those email addresses get collected and eventually sold off to some marketing spam list that just adds more junk to my inbox and adds a little bit more information to some marketing profile about me somewhere.
A video demo would definitely help demonstrate that at least there's a "there" there.
Rather than rëengineer your site, consider just putting up a static walkthrough of key features, or a short video demo.
Cheers!
What benefit do you get from that?
Are you going to send me an email reminding me to try it again? That’s going straight to spam.
If I like the product-at some point I’ll have to sign up, and then you have my email.
Why the intermediate step? The only thing that comes to mind is limiting resource usage? If it’s just free people might use it just to use it-but isn’t that kind of the point of a demo?
I’ve tried many “travel apps”, and we recently used Tripsy⁽¹⁾ for a two week holiday and the iOS widget showing the “current activity” and “next activity” of your itinerary (for easy access to PDF tickets, notes, etc.) was really great! You can even turn your phone sideways to show the name and address of your next stop in large print which is great for taxis.
It has sharing/collaboration, integrations for over 700 sites, and also syncs to your Calendar so you can see your itinerary there.
Very well done app that I thought was worth a mention. (It has a web UI as well.)
Some issues I faced after trying it out for few minutes:
- When creating itineraries, I filled in the country field, but upon pressing enter or the arrow button, it just disappeared?
- On the same text field, I'm on dark mode, but the color contrast is quite poor (can't read the placeholder text)
- When I'm on the per-day itinerary planning page, when entering the hh:mm field, it didn't move my focus to the next one (so if I want to enter 08:00, I have to enter "8" then <tab> then "8" then <tab> then "0" then <tab> then "0"
- After I entered the hh:mm and press the plus icon, I suppose we're supposed to enter the plans starting that time. So I enter some stuff to it, and upon pressing enter, it appears there. It's fine, but it feels like the UX would be better if the text box is autofocused again, so we can quickly enter several plans for that timing
- I'm confused with the "edit"/"editing" button, not sure what it does... but when the text goes to "editing", I can delete some items I guess?
Anyway that's all I have for now. Sorry for the long wall of text.
Cheers~
My unsent feedback was:
I clicked on an itinerary on the home page, was asked to sign up/in, signed in with Google, and was taken to https://itineraries.io/home instead of the itinerary I had clicked on.
It would be good to be able to explore itineraries without having to sign up/in to see what the site is about, but if you're determined to get people to sign in, at least take them to where they wanted to go afterwards.
Nitpick: The spinning globe is painfully obviously a flat image. It's also spinning in the wrong direction ;)
Here's my 2 cents. This is a very difficult market to crack. On one hand you have Pinterest which is littered with individual trip guides and most likely your early adopters to generate content. However, they are NOT the right consumers to spend money on this.
Figure out the right niche in this market, it's very sparse!
Source: I'm the creator of https://trrip.co
Yeah yeah, "popular" equals touristy, but just like Pumpkin Spice Latte in September, maybe I don't mind being a "basic tourist".
When Instagram's API was more open, someone did a heatmap of places that are tagged a lot in photos.
I like the live save of input. I had some UI issues on mobile web but am curious to check it out more on my desktop! What did you use as a backend?
With that said, keep building what you're building, it's not the same thing!
I’ll try again on desktop later.
I've been building something similar for far too long - and it is far too buggy still - for Europe-only travel.
Good luck with this. I know how hard it can be doing this sort of thing between job, life, family, and dreaming of your next trip :)
Yeah, it's classic growth hacking. It's also a giant red flag at this point.
Just a note: Forget about it. When child is there, wife loses all interest in such activities. Been there, done that. I can aford holidays everywhere on earth ( ok maybe not Antarctis :) ), but no, missus stays home and asks that I just stay home ( we actually bought one ) with her and the kids. No holidays, just short trips outside city.
Also, what makes you think that your situation generalizes to the OP?