Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application (ikuyo.kenrick95.org)

I would definitely recommend adding example images directly to the main page, along with the link to the example trip. Otherwise there's nothing really to draw users in to using if they have to go searching for how the experience looks like.

Both your privacy policy and your terms of service mention contacting you, but i don't see a way to do so.

It feels like everyone the past few years have been using Japanese for their side apps. I think this can lead to confusion.

on the other hand, if you add some more social elements it could be fun, theres a few apps that allow people to upload places and hotspots too so its more community driven, but also thats kinda instagram too.

Do you have sample credentials?

Sounds interesting, but I (and I suppose others reaching the landing page might be as well) was discouraged to check it out because it requires me to sign up to learn more.

Show screenshots. Show how me and my family will use it and feel.

France is in your destination list twice with nothing differentiating the two entries.

My current 'favorite idea I probably won't build' is an sms chat bot that does exactly this for guys in their 30s & 40s. The hard part is actually organizing the group of friends to pick a weekend and location. So a bot that can help with all of that first, is really compelling for me.

OP, let me know if you want to do a user group trying to help us organize a trip.

just created an account, only to be greeted with a white screen... https://ikuyo.kenrick95.org/trip/4725b43a-595b-433d-b746-79c... seems the app not ready for primetime...

This is going to be quite negative(sorry), but I don't really see the value here. Perhaps I don't really "get it", but I don't see how this helps you plan. It just lets you visualize the plan after you've created it.

I travel "full time" with my girlfriend, and she does most/all of the planning. The hard part isn't writing down what needs to be done, it's coming up with the plan in the first place.

First you pick a location, then you pick points of interest. Then you need to devise a route that makes sense that lets you see all those points and how you're going to get between them. Trains/buses/taxis, the timetable for those modes of transportation, the backup for when you're inevitably late, the "point of no return" where it's time to give up on that attraction.

For some places, reminders when tickets go on sale for the thing you want to do if it's extremely popular. Where it makes sense to do things as day trips and where it makes sense to just move to a more rural location/camp to see things. What to do with your luggage and how to move it from place to place.

Admittedly, I haven't signed up, I just looked at the free example and showed it to my girlfriend. She uses excel + google maps for visualizing the plan and we're not sure what this gives ontop of that. We're also always together in person, I could see how if you were far apart, perhaps the commenting and stuff could be useful?

You gotta add debouncing or disable the button(s) once clicked and are pending for results; got several email codes and random errors because I clicked again thinking the button(s) didn’t work

Adding a sample trip might help a lot to give an idea of how to use it.

Inputs feel tedious and not smart enough; so much that it feels to get in the way instead of helping.

Activity date input shouldn’t be free date input; I inputted the start and end date earlier, couldn’t that be used to help limit the input range? End date/time feels tedious as well, it could be a duration input instead (eg 3h at this location).

It also lacks some extra planning features, like pooling the list of locations to visit (no dates yet), for later to be scheduled if it ends up interesting.

Personally I would remain using Wanderlog..

Could you please consider using something other than recaptcha?

There's been several alternatives mentioned on HN over the past year. A quick search through my browser history revealed https://altcha.org/open-source-captcha/ as the most recent link I'd been to.

Just to say I have no experience of any of the "alternative" captchas, I just hate the one you're using.

Also please get your app up and running fast so we can use it for our vacation in early September, haha :-) Thank you.

Seems similar to Wanderlog but less mature. I wish you best of luck!

Whatever you do, please do not make the app as slow as Wanderlog - I literally had to create an Android app to interact with my trips because their app isn't optimized at all!

Nice app, nice idea you thought of.

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 easier for users. And being able to share/show trip plans with others who aren't on the trip would be something people would want to do.

My goal was to scale it and get actual broad adoption, make it a social experience, but even getting a handful of users was an uphill battle.

I found that my thesis was likely wrong for a couple of reasons:

1. The messy shared doc approach had the benefit of being very low-friction. It's easier to just type a bulleted list than to click "add item" and fill out some form fields.

2. Browser usage was (I think) a limiting factor. I'm not sure if it would have worked as a native mobile app, but it definitely wasn't going to work as a web app.

3. When people want to show off their trip or look for travel inspiration, they turn to apps like Instagram and Tiktok. They want visuals with photos/videos, not a list with a map. It's very difficult to create a new purpose-built social network.

I ended up winding it down and moving on.

I don't mean this to be a Dropbox "why are you building this" comment, but more hopefully pointing out a few challenges that exist in the space that you'll likely need to think about if you want to scale.

Looks nice! Since it's MIT licensed and I'd assume free to use, I'd suggest including that in the landing page. Since the homepage didn't include the keywords "price", "pricing", "free" or "cost" (related to pricing) I unfortunately thought it'd have dark patterns where you start planning a trip and then at some point it'd ask for payment.

This is cool. Having used similar apps (e.g. wanderlog), one thing they lack that I would LOVE is timetable filtering. When I travel, I find that I'm either in logistics mode or fun mode. Here's the idea:

In logistics mode, I want a detailed, precise timetable focused on transportation and lodging. I don't even want to see my fun ideas.

In fun mode, I want a relaxed set of suggestions based on my current location, and a single timestamp telling me when I need to go back into logistics mode.

Does that make sense? Its almost like I want two travel agents: a didactic drill sargeant to get me from A to B, and a chill surfer bum that helps me go with the flow.

I would love to see room planning built in. We book cottages for staycation with multiple families. It would be nice to allocate people to room's

What key feature are you providing that can't be easily done by a google sheet?

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Neat! I'd like to give this a try with my family.

I noticed the MIT license, any plans to document how someone could self host this? Or would you be open to contributions from other people to do that?

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 (kind of), but with travel specific additions.

Now for the potential improvements:

- I can't add someone else as an editor, it seems. Clicking add just logs a "TripForm" with the form object. I don't see any network requests either.

- Expenses don't allow me to select how to split it (maybe this is an issue because there's no-one else part of the trip?)

- Timetable contrast needs a bit of work. Maybe needs some padding/margins or something.

- MapTiler doesn't seem to have a good enough database. I struggled to add 152 Morrison Road

- Activities can't span multiple days (I tried adding a train ride than arrived 45 mins past midnight)

- Adding/editing activities while on the timetable page, does not update them until I refresh (or navigate away)

Outside of all that, how are you planning to monetise this? The code is released under MIT, which doesn't stop anyone from adding some subscription plan, hosting it, and advertising it. May I suggest something like AGPL?

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!

Really nice, but it is unclear to me how time is represented with regard to timezones.

Some large countries may have multiple time zones, and itineraries can be confusing, this needs consideration from data modeling and ux side as well. The first glance at the UI didn't make it obvious for me how this is handled, I suppose local time is used always.