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Show HN: GridTravel – A community based travel app for users to share routes

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Re: Show HN: GridTravel – A community based travel app for users to share routes

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Post by prawn »

Some quick feedback - your top two screenshots are absolutely generic: city map, and then featured locations. If you're about the routes, then maybe lead with the other two screenshots and more like those.

I would forget UGC for a long while yet. Just commit to seeding/curating routes yourselves. If you want to involve influencers, generate the routes based on their travel blogs or comments and then link back to them. Saves them doing any work on what will be a wasteland app to start with.

Re: Show HN: GridTravel – A community based travel app for users to share routes

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Post by knuaym9 »

prawn wrote: post #21

Some quick feedback - your top two screenshots are absolutely generic: city map, and then featured locations. If you're about the routes, then maybe lead with the other two screenshots and more like those. I would forget UGC for a long while yet. Just commit to seeding/curating routes yourselves. If you want to involve influencers, generate the routes based on their travel blogs or comments and then link back to them…

Those screenshots were on my list to update so thank you for the reminder!

UGC: Our first phase definitely looks closer to what you're describing than the long term goal. We're seeding the major US cities ourselves, then bringing on influencers in those same cities to create routes from their own lifestyle/brand and cross-post on socials — the seeded routes give them a baseline for the format we're going for. UGC from regular users is the longer-term bet, not what we were expecting within our first week of launch.

Your "generate the routes based on their travel blogs, link back" idea is one I hadn't considered, but it's something to think about. Appreciate your input!

Re: Show HN: GridTravel – A community based travel app for users to share routes

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Post by knuaym9 »

fizza_pizza wrote: post #24

This is actually a really fun idea. I’d honestly trust routes made by real people way more than another “top 10 places” blog post.

Thanks! Yeah that's the idea. Biggest problem we are encountering in the initial stages is just the UGC with users or lack thereof but it hasn't even been 48 hours since launch lol. Seeding major cities at the moment and as the user base grows, the hope is UGC grows as well.

Re: Show HN: GridTravel – A community based travel app for users to share routes

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Post by knuaym9 »

michaefe wrote: post #13

Super cool! Unrelated to the idea itself, but it seems like (at least for me) the images on the desktop landing page aren't rendering on either chrome or safari

Just a FYI, the website is up and running if you still wanted to check it out!

Re: Show HN: GridTravel – A community based travel app for users to share routes

#29

Post by knuaym9 »

hbarka wrote: post #25

Does it allow seeding with prior walks or does it have to be live-collected?

At the moment, it's manual creation. You build the route by placing waypoints and adding notes, tips, and a cover photo (if you prefer). So you can create the route whenever you'd like. Live recording is something we considered but planned to do later down the line. Hope this answered your question!
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