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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 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

You're right, just confirmed it on our end. Getting on that now, should be fixed shortly. Appreciate you for taking the time to report it.

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

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Post by tf2_pyro »

This looks great - I funnily had a very similar idea a while back that I never got the ball on rolling on - so it's great to see you've built this. I unfortunately can't test this right now as I have an Android

Some ideas I had back then on the business side of things - you could explore getting travel influencers on board to market it and create their own custom itenararies. Then you can also connect to booking websites to earn income and give commission shares to route creators.

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

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Post by binyang_qiu »

This idea is super cool! I love traveling and feel that the core of a trip is exploring local/authentic life, so your product perfectly matches my needs! If all people sharing their routes are local and the recommendations are real, not ads, it will be reliable for me to use it to find places. Just one thing, I can't use it in my country:( Hope you can make it globally:)

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

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Post by knuaym9 »

binyang_qiu wrote: post #17

This idea is super cool! I love traveling and feel that the core of a trip is exploring local/authentic life, so your product perfectly matches my needs! If all people sharing their routes are local and the recommendations are real, not ads, it will be reliable for me to use it to find places. Just one thing, I can't use it in my country:( Hope you can make it globally:)

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

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Post by knuaym9 »

tf2_pyro wrote: post #16

This looks great - I funnily had a very similar idea a while back that I never got the ball on rolling on - so it's great to see you've built this. I unfortunately can't test this right now as I have an Android Some ideas I had back then on the business side of things - you could explore getting travel influencers on board to market it and create their own custom itenararies. Then you can also connect to booking webs…

We are planning on launching an android version in the near future, just don't have a specific timeline yet. Looking to see how the response is from the iOS users. On the business side: influencer-created itineraries is something we're already leaning into as mentioned above (number 3). As for the other angle for monetization, we've gone back and forth on it. The thing that makes us hesitant is incentive alignment i.e once route creators earn commission on bookings, there's pressure to route people toward bookable places (hotels, paid attractions, restaurants on partner platforms) rather than the local hidden-gem stuff that's the actual value of the app. Not ruling it out—there are versions of it (transparent disclosure, opt-in by creator, separate trips vs routes surface) that might work. Just want to make sure it's done right. Appreciate your input!

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

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Post by sbinnee »

knuaym9 wrote: post #6
sbinnee wrote: post #5

I love the idea. Unfortunately, not available in my country. I hope it to be successful and see this app in my country in the future.

Thanks! Just out of curiosity, what country do you reside in? We're iOS only for now (planning to come to android in the near future) and the App Store availability is set up market-by-market, so it'd be useful for us to know where the demand is.

South Korea
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