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I love to travel. And at my core, I’m still a developer — I love creating things, solving problems, building technology. Those two things have always lived side by side in me.
But here’s what I only recently figured out: every single time I plan a trip, I go through this whole thing.
There’s a planning phase. A big one. And it’s chaos.
I end up with multiple itineraries across multiple drafts. Budget on one page. Places I want to visit on another. Notes scattered across my phone. And then at some point — I’d have to throw it all out and start from scratch because I couldn’t find anything.
What I always wanted was a template. A structure that travels with me from trip to trip. Because the process doesn’t change — before every trip, you need to know where you’re going, what you’re doing, how much it costs. That part is constant. Why am I rebuilding it every single time?
And then there’s the AI thing.
Yes, AI can help you plan a trip. But AI itineraries are fast. Too fast. They spit out a 7-day plan in 4 seconds and suddenly you’re supposed to just… go with it? That’s not travel planning. That’s outsourcing your holiday to a chatbot.
It also kills the fun. The whole joy of planning a trip is the exploration — falling down a rabbit hole at 11pm, finding that one place that isn’t on any “Top 10” list, figuring out what you can actually do that’s a little off the beaten path. That requires research. Real research. And I needed somewhere to put all of that research — not a bullet point list, but something structured, something visual, something that actually lets me see my trip.
I couldn’t find that. So I built it.
The first time I actually used it on a real trip
My last trip to the United States was the first time I used Jurney for real.
And I’m going to be completely honest with you — one month before that trip, it was horrible. Terribly buggy. The kind of buggy where you’re not sure if you’re testing an app or punishing yourself.
Is it still buggy now? A little. Yes. I’m not going to lie to you about that.
But here’s the thing I’ve come to terms with while building this: it’s never going to be perfect. No big app is completely bug free. Not the ones with hundreds of engineers, not the ones worth billions of dollars, not mine. There will always be something. And if I wait for perfect, I wait forever.
What I can tell you is what happened when I actually sat down and planned my US trip inside Jurney.
For the first time, I could see my entire trip — day by day — laid out in front of me. I could visually see how much I was packing into a single day. I could see exactly where I needed to slow down, where I was being too ambitious, where I needed to breathe.
One place for everything. My to-do list. My commute plans. My travel bookings. Reference links. Documents. What I was doing each day and when.
Not scattered across tabs and docs and a WhatsApp thread I’d never find again.
Just — there. Organised. Visual. Mine.
I’ve been at it even during my vacation — trying to find and fix things that absolutely did not work
It wasn’t perfect. But it was the first time planning a trip felt like something I was in control of rather than something happening to me.
So here’s where I need your help.
I’ve been building this mostly by myself. Writing code, breaking things, fixing them, redesigning flows, rethinking how people actually plan trips — not how apps think they do.
And now it’s at a stage where it needs real users.
Not perfect users. Not “power planners.” Just real people who travel. People who open 47 tabs and forget where they saved that one place. People who’ve planned trips in Notes, Docs, WhatsApp, and still felt like something was missing.
If that sounds like you, I’d love for you to try it.
Not just to use it — but to break it.Tell me what’s confusing. What’s slow. What doesn’t make sense. What you wish it did instead.
Because the goal here isn’t to build just another travel app. It’s to build something that actually fits how people plan.
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