First of all, it is very interesting to see how others expect to plan their vacation. Previously, I had made a travel app for myself, however, it was different. The main feature was around the map and locations, with a necessary list of some POIs. When I was in the city, I used it to see if there was something interesting that I had pre-scouted not far from my location. From the technical side, I took a look into the…
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#92I think it would be most useful in later stages of planning and sharing the result with friends. The major steps of planning a big trip (as I see it) are:
1. figuring out what activity options there are (brainstorming+researching what to do)
2. getting that into a sensible schedule with all constraints of opening hours, distance/travel between them, available time in the trip, budgets (either the glacier tour or that lodge with a skylight to see auroras, say), and preferences (some activities are cooler than two other ideas together)
3. booking
4. doing, and adapting on the fly as plans meet reality
I did these things in a Markdown file last time (CodiMD, specifically) and that worked surprisingly well. The big downside is that you can't have different views on the same data: to get from step 1 to 2, it would be cool if you can plot them on a map as an approximation of how much time you need to travel between them, or to give them all coordinates and have it show you a traveling salesman solution, just to have a starting point of what order makes sense. Or URLs for everything (info, reviews, booking status, ticket download..) gets messy. Ikuyo can view activities as a list and also as a map and also as a schedule, so that looks very promising!
Making a test trip, besides some unnecessary metadata like currencies (same, all euros) and target region ("various countries in Schengen" was not an option), I didn't really feel like it helped me get any of the stages done specifically. You need to pick a datetime for each activity up front, or you leave it as dummy, but either way you can't then drag&drop events to make a schedule. You need to open them up, press edit, and use the time selector UI. In Markdown, moving an event isn't drag&drop either but at least I can simply move the line to where on the schedule it makes sense and type the time directly
So I guess I'd put the activities in here once I've got a draft in Markdown? Then friends can view it in various ways. A friend previously (different trip than where I used Md) used a spreadsheet and that experience was relatively mediocre: Ikuyo would most definitely be better as a sharing format!
For during the trip, is there a way to save it offline? Comparing to Markdown or spreadsheets, I can download an HTML render or ODS file on my phone and view it any time, or even print it out. For viewing my trip on this website randomly during the trip ("what time did we need to be back in the village again?"), you'll always need internet and the website to be up right?
I had a peek at the source code as well and it looks all neat. After logging in, I needed to edit the URL to get back to the homepage (clicking the logo doesn't do it) and find the source link, but that's fine for me. The number of dependencies looks pretty reasonable and I could see myself hosting this!
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#93Yes it is a sort of TSP, but you cannot assume fixed weights (as some roads can be open only some times of the day)
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#94This looks quite cool! I think it would be most useful in later stages of planning and sharing the result with friends. The major steps of planning a big trip (as I see it) are: 1. figuring out what activity options there are (brainstorming+researching what to do) 2. getting that into a sensible schedule with all constraints of opening hours, distance/travel between them, available time in the trip, budgets (either t…
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#95What'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…
A friend of mine built a similar thing as a mobile app and also failed to get adoption. I think what these tools miss is that it’s kinda fun to plan a trip and I don’t necessarily need an app to help. It seems hard and like something I’ll need to learn once, and relearn when I need it again
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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
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#98> 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.
Anyway, a dinner reservation for a group of 20 is different than planning an entire vacation to the minute.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
I agree with you, though you might think about contributing to wikitravel too. This is their Singapore page: https://wikitravel.org/en/Singapore