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Products that do what I made a route planner app (update from 2018) does
Hello HN, I made the web app that helps plan your routes/road trips. It has so many options that I don’t know how to explain in simple words :), so I’ll try like this. What is cool about it is that your routes are shareable and hackable. The routes come in the format ie. https://camptarget.com/London,Uk/Vienna,AT/Istanbul,TR/5h:6d, meaning we travel from London via Vienna to Istanbul, driving 5 hours daily while our total time budget would be 6 days. At given breakpoints (after 5 hours) we can explore the nearby locality in radius of some 30-40 miles, for…
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2019 · github.com
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2020 · edanswers.io
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Hey there, I've been working on a project that helps you plan a trip by swiping through attractions like tinder. Features include: - Add places by swiping - Simple to use drag-and-drop itinerary planner - Add notes to each place - Get estimated travel and arrival times between places automatically - Automatically arrange places into your itinerary (This doesn't work that well tbh) - Share trips with friends Source code available at: https://github.com/Suu-ly/Outbound It's pretty good for planning day trips but frankly not the best for multi-day trips. Let me know what you…
2025 · outbound-one.vercel.app
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Hi HN, I'm Fran! I'm excited to share my latest project with you all. I built an AI travel planner that generates custom travel itineraries in seconds. Whether you're planning a weekend getaway or a month-long adventure, this tool can create a detailed, professional-level plan that includes day-by-day activities, hotels, restaurants, and more. As a frequent traveler, I wanted to create something that simplifies the overwhelming task of trip planning and ensures you make the most of your time at any destination. The AI considers various factors to provide recommendations that suit your…
2024 · planitly.com
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In Summer last year, I drove a car from London to Mongolia (and back). This is a map of my route: http://smstravelmap.com/map/0f0mvsnc I built a service to provide travel mapping for everyone, even where mobile data is impractical. http://smstravelmap.com/ Would love to hear what people think!
2015
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Hey HN! I'd like to share my personal experiment with a different way of finding train journeys across the UK. When I book flights, I use sites like Kiwi and Skyscanner for flexible searches - multiple airports, custom connections, creative routes, etc. But rail search feels oddly constrained. All the UK train operators offer basically the same experience, and surface the exact same routes. I always suspected there were better or just different options that weren’t being shown. Where is the "Skyscanner for trains"? After digging through the national rail data feeds, I decided to have a go at…
Mar 2026 · railraptor.com
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Hey HN, We're excited to announce the public beta preview of Tripnotes, an intelligent travel planner that mixes a custom recommendation engine, our own data, and a bit of GPT to help you find the right places to go while traveling. Our team has been working hard on this project for 6 months, and we're excited to finally share it with the HN community. With Tripnotes, you can keep track of all your notes about travel when planning to visit a city. Paste in article URLs, videos, emails, text messages, any other text, and if you need some help with research, ask our Concierge which will…
2023 · tripnotes.ai
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In 2020, I started walking more and more. I was annoyed with having to constantly check my phone to see my step count and plotting a route that was sufficiently long enough. Over the next few weeks, I built Walking Route, which lets you generate a custom route of any length or quickly generate routes 5,000 steps or 10,000 steps in length. Plus, the route will always return you back to where you started from. I live in San Francisco and since it generates a new walking route every time, one of the unexpected consequences was that it helped me explore areas of the city I probably wouldn't have…
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From dream trip to booked campsites in 60 seconds
24d ago · parkwith.us
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Hello fellow hackers! I love creating products that solve people's needs. One day, my wife asked me if I knew of any tools that could help plan a week-long company getaway. The requirements were fairly straightforward: - 14 people - A 7-day trip - Sometime in the next 6 months They weren’t concerned about choosing the exact time yet; they just needed to know which dates would work for everyone—or put another way, when does it NOT work? I searched but couldn’t find anything that met this specific need, so I decided to build it myself. The concept is simple: think of it as an inverse Doodle.…
2024 · whennot.com
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I've built this as a side project last month. I know there are a few similar sites out there, but I've found them cumbersome to navigate with ads that slow down the experience. So I decided to take a stab at it and build my own version, with a minimalist UI (+ I implemented a custom right-click menu to enable navigation even when the UI is hidden), ad-free, just for fun. There are over 130+ cities that you can explore right now, but I'm constantly adding new ones.
2025 · citywalki.com
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Greetings Hacker News family! I'm excited to share with you the first version of our AI-powered travel planner. I'm a digital nomad/tech geek who loves traveling but admittedly am lazy about trip planning, so I created a tool built on ChatGPT that could help me jump start that. I simply enter a destination, the # of days, a budget preference, and it spits out a full travel itinerary with highlighted points of interest. The problem: Trip planning can be overwhelming and time consuming. While some may find excitement in planning, many folks are overwhelmed by the prospect of figuring out…
2023 · planitearth.travel
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2017 · travelmap.net
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I made this simple site that tells you which travel adapter you need for your next trip. I found myself googling this info and always being linked to a random article that was super long. Decided to make this crisp page that gives key info above the fold. Built with NextJS + Tailwind. I'd love some feedback and what should I add?
2024 · checkplug.com
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I love culture + travel, and one of my favorite pastimes is dropping into random streets on Google Street View. I just LOVE getting a tiny snippet into how people live, the architecture, and discovering hidden corners of places I'll probably never visit. I'm kinda weird like that. When AI came along, I started asking it to explain what I was looking at - and I learned a ton. I couldn't stop using this combo. So I built Streetwhip. It's kinda like reverse Geoguessr - instead of guessing where you are, you get educated about places as if you had a smart local guide with you. What used to be…
2025 · streetwhip.com
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I was tired of finding repetitive travel plans on ad-filled travel sites, so I made a minimal editable trip plan maker.
2025 · triptip.cat
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I've been building a bunch of US geography tools/games/visualizations and thought folks on HN might like this one. There are also drive-time and bike-time tools available on the same page. For folks interested, all of the data comes from OpenStreetMap and the US Census at the moment - OSM for routing and points interest and the US Census for population data. Anonymous users can use it 5x/day. I put up a waitlist page to gauge interest in a paid version but there's no way for the public to make an account - feel free to bypass the limits in an incognito tab. The site is US-only…
Jul 2026 · blockatlas.com
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We built TripJam after being frustrated with planning trips in regular group chats and trying to organize information across multiple apps. It combines: - Group chat that keeps all travel discussions in one thread - Interactive maps where everyone can pin locations and add notes - Collaborative itineraries that sync with your calendar - AI travel assistant that suggests activities and helps optimize your plans This solves trying to coordinate information with everyone using messages, Google Maps, Google Docs, and travel guides. Everything syncs in real-time so everyone stays on the same…
2025 · tripjam.app
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Hi HN, I’m the creator of Alarms.Global, a free tool I built while working in logistics. I was constantly juggling scattered holiday calendars and scanning local news to figure out why shipments were delayed. What it does: Tracks public holidays in 190+ countries (so you know when offices, ports, and customs are closed) Aggregates real-time transport disruptions (strikes, port congestion, weather issues, etc.) Shows everything on a filterable world map Works in 14 languages The idea was to create a single open platform to see what might stop goods from moving today. Tech: It’s built with…
2025 · alarms.global
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