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Re: Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application

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Post by gorbachev »

gwbas1c wrote: post #67

> Schedule activities with precise times and locations. There's nothing I hate more than needing to be at a precise location at a precise time when I'm on vacation! (After all, it is a vacation.)

I used to be like this, but then my family grew to a size that we can't just go and walk in a restaurant and expect to have a table without a 60 minute wait. Traveling with a large family requires quite a bit more planning than just hopping on a random flight to a random country by yourself for two days.

Re: Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application

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Post by packetlost »

mi100hael wrote: post #33

What's your goal with the project? I built a web app that looked very similar a few years back: friends & family collaboration on a trip plan, itinerary with map view, packing list, notes/journaling, favoriting, private or public with commenting, that sort of thing. My thesis was that the current common method of trip planning in a shared doc was messy, and a more structured, guided approach would make the process ea…

> The messy shared doc approach had the benefit of being very low-friction

This. If you want someone to use your thing, it needs to have a very strong value proposition over familiar general purpose tool.

This applies to basically every tool, but especially software.

Re: Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application

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Post by ognarb »

Another open source app with a bit of similar goal: https://apps.kde.org/itinerary/

The collaboration part is not that developed (but does exist based on Matrix as decentralized and end to end encrypted storage). That works very well is ticket extraction for hotels, train or flight + search for connection using public transport APIs.

Disclaimer: I'm involved with that app

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mi100hael wrote: post #33

What's your goal with the project? I built a web app that looked very similar a few years back: friends & family collaboration on a trip plan, itinerary with map view, packing list, notes/journaling, favoriting, private or public with commenting, that sort of thing. My thesis was that the current common method of trip planning in a shared doc was messy, and a more structured, guided approach would make the process ea…

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Re: Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application

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Post by [deleted] »

phsource wrote: post #77
figmert wrote: post #52

This is amazing. I've used wanderlog extensively, but while its feature set is great, it can be a nightmare to work due to how slow it can be sometimes. I've just registered to test it out a little bit. I tried to replicate my upcoming trip that I have set up in Wanderlog, and have the following feedback: - Overall, amazing! Snappy. Real easy to follow. - I love the simplicity. - I like that this is essentially excel…

Hey figmert -- this is Peter, one of the co-founders of Wanderlog. I'm actually on a trip to Italy right now and definitely feel your pain with some performance issues, and we've been working hard to improve this. If you haven't tried the app in the last few months, can you try it again and let me know what parts are feeling slow for you by emailing me directly at peter@wanderlog.com? I'd love to take a closer look,…

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Re: Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application

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Post by leonhard »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #64
xwowsersx wrote: post #53

My family and I have a trip to London/Paris in July with children. Tried Wanderlog and it's not great. Going to give this a try!

Just move to Canada. Paris is a one hour drive from London.

I mean in Europe they’re also just a few hours train ride apart. (Or a few hours drive where your car rides the train.)

Re: Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application

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Post by arciini »

xwowsersx wrote: post #53

My family and I have a trip to London/Paris in July with children. Tried Wanderlog and it's not great. Going to give this a try!

Hi! Co-founder of Wanderlog (YC W19) here - what issues did you run into with it? I'd love to get your take to see if there's anything we can do there.

Re: Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application

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Post by kenrick95 »

swyx wrote: post #71
kenrick95 wrote: post #18

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Thanks for your suggestion! I was hesitant at first cause it was under heavy development so anything I put there on main page might get outdated very soon. I'll add them very soon~

also just because your landing page now has an example featuring singapore - this is my guide to singapore http://swyx.io/sg-guide and i feel like encouraging people to make opinionated guides to where they live is kinda nice and under explored

Hi swyx, great idea! Thanks for your tips

Re: Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application

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Post by kenrick95 »

pimlottc wrote: post #60
kenrick95 wrote: post #58

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Yeah this is not that obvious, but the selected 'destination time zone' is the only time zone that one will be working with when planning the activities within the trip. (When inputting/reading the activities' time zone, they are all the destination's time zone) The only local time zone used is at the comments (but hopefully it is clearer since I show the time zone offset there? I don't show it on the events since I…

At the very least, you have to consider time zones for travel to/from your destination, as that's quite often a different time zone for international travel. Don't want to miss your flight...

That's a very valid use case I haven't thought of. Thanks for pointing it out!
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