We're Peter and Harry, and we're building Travelchime (<a href="https://travelchime.com" rel="nofollow">https://travelchime.com</a>).<p>Travelchime is like Google Docs for planning vacation travel with your friends' recommendations. It lets you add places and attractions you're looking to visit to a doc, export them to Google Maps, and collaborate with your friends who've been there or are going there with you.<p>We used to plan our trips using Google Docs and Sheets, but it was a pain. We'd write the documents, then had to add the same places to a map for when we're on the trip. We also often sent these out to friends who asked -- there's nobody whose recommendations you trust more than your friends -- but it's hard to find which friends have these docs.<p>We built Travelchime to solve this. With Travelchime, you can:<p>1. Add all the museums, restaurants, and places you're staying/want to visit to a doc on Travelchime, and see them on a map with their opening times, links to Yelp, and more<p>2. Share the doc with friends on the trip or ask others for recommendations: multiple people can edit/suggest at the same time, just like Google Docs [1]<p>3. Export the places to Google Maps for when you're on the go<p>4. (Optional) Read some itineraries from around the web to get inspired! We use basic machine learning [2] to parse itineraries for the places they mention to help get you started<p>5. Once you’ve gone on the trip, you can share the full itinerary with notes to inspire your friends<p>We haven’t monetized, but will eventually link out to hotels that work well with your itinerary and get affiliate commissions there.<p>We've gotten a ton of support from Hacker News in the past: when Yale shut down our courses website, Hacker News rallied and got the attention on it to save it (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7060261" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7060261</a>), and past HN launches (e.g., for WrapAPI: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11423070" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11423070</a>) got us our first paying customers. We love the direct feedback we get, so if you're planning a trip soon, give it a shot and let us know what you think either here or by email at peter@travelchime.com!<p>[1] To enable real-time editing, we use Quill (<a href="https://quilljs.com/" rel="nofollow">https://quilljs.com/</a>) and ShareDB (<a href="https://github.com/share/sharedb" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/share/sharedb</a>), both amazing projects. We had also tried Draft.js, Slate, so if you want to chat text editing hit us up!<p>[2] A combination of Google's Entity Recognition API, Google Maps' APIs, and human checkers<p>[3] For those curious: we <3 React and have an all-Javascript stack with Node.js and MySQL on the back-end