Show HN: Tripnotes.ai: Intelligent Travel Planner (tripnotes.ai)
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 provide useful recommendations and itineraries for the city in question - with a fallback to GPT for things we didn't quite understand.
If you're not ready to dive right in, here are a few short highlight videos:
https://twitter.com/matthewer/status/1619047755271536640
https://twitter.com/matthewer/status/1621172173598756864
https://twitter.com/matthewer/status/1623703548545445890
https://twitter.com/matthewer/status/1638010661694234625
All the places by Tripnotes are from our own database, but we rely upon GPT to understand the intent of the incoming prompts, as well as to help with the prose in our response to ensure the place descriptions fit what's being asked for.
Since we tweeted about our preview release on Monday, we've had over 15,000 people come and try at least one prompt, with over 40,000 unique notes generated from prompts about cities all over the world.
We'd love for you to give Tripnotes a try and let us know what you think. The "unauthed" version is open to everyone. If you're interested in using the full version, please join our waitlist.
The full version maintains a history of your notes and allows you to edit the text and auto-highlights any text you write/paste in on the fly, which can be useful for pasting recommendations from friends (say via SMS or Email) and having them auto-highlighted and mapped. You can also paste in links from articles, websites, blogs, even Tiktok or Youtube. We scrape those urls, gather the list of places that are mentioned, and then show them on the map along side the rest of your note.
We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback, so please feel free to leave a comment or reach out to us directly. Thanks for your support!
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 26.0 ms ] threadMost of our POI data comes from multiple sources, including data agreements and our own scrapers.
We have a few sources we like to "watch" who tend to be fairly accurate for things like openings and closings and have some heuristics to figure out if a place is actually closed. We also allow our users to flag places for review.
It's definitely imperfect! I've had to manually research and close or "re-open" a few places over the past couple days as more people have had a chance to see our data in action.
We're not tracking menus yet, but it's high on our list for things to tackle.
Relocations will generally end up being a "new place" in our system. I'm hoping to make it so the "old location" redirects to the "new location" at some point. We're not there quite yet.
Tripnotes doesn't take any data from your phone. It's a web app.
You can paste the text of emails and messages or write directly, and Tripnotes will tag the text you add to your note with POI information and a map of the POIs tagged / mentioned.