Show HN: I open-sourced my travel planning startup, Wanderlust

I&#x27;m working on something similar at <a href="http://tripovore.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tripovore.com</a><p>Basically I think city guides are obsolete (they have been there for 200 years with no major innovation) and have to be reinvented and trip planning automatized using APIs we have online. I currently use 6 of them: foursquare, songkick, instagram, google places, google translate and facebook. I&#x27;ve been working on this for the past 8 months, but I&#x27;m having UX difficulties keeping such a complex problem as simple as possible. I first started this during the foursquare hackathon 2011 and the project won the grand prize (called my next trip at that time).<p>Would love to hear any feedbacks you got at feedback@tripovore.com<p>Thanks!

I&#x27;ve been working on this for 2-3 months and realized I don&#x27;t have enough time to donate to it. So, I open sourced it. I always envisioned it paired with a mobile app. It&#x27;s written in AngularJS and Rails hopefully someone can start helping me where I left off.

This is a great idea. Nice work. I&#x27;m probably the only one here but everytime i see open source I run to github hoping for a python project but almost always am looking at ROR .... oh well<p>We need more open source Django

Here&#x27;s the link to Github repo:<p><a href="https://github.com/danecjensen/mywanderlust" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;danecjensen&#x2F;mywanderlust</a>

Somebody has a hankering for starbucks:<p><a href="http://mywanderlust.co/trips/c8b8d9b3444c2dce21fcf12063101b77a93c30f6/edit" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mywanderlust.co&#x2F;trips&#x2F;c8b8d9b3444c2dce21fcf12063101b7...</a>

Nice app :) Once you have decided all the destinations you&#x27;d like to see, it&#x27;d be sweet if it could tell you how to go there (i.e. plan the optimal route)<p>I did this side project <a href="http://www.routific.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.routific.com</a> to do route optimization (you can also specify time-windows, which would be neat for opening&#x2F;closing hours) -- the algorithm is open source: <a href="https://github.com/mck-/Open-VRP" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mck-&#x2F;Open-VRP</a> -- perhaps an idea to integrate it?

This is great.. why dont you pursue further? Looks like some of it is coming from 4sq api, I can help you there if you are stuck.<p>Kudos on working on it, and hope you find time to continue building on it. One specific feature that will make it so much easier is if there was a way to bootstrap your list. May be display top tourist locations to start with.. you can also search for tiplists on foursquare to give user starting point. Not sure if you already do that, and I just couldnt figure out..

Wow nice work. When I travel outside I usually use wikipedia to get a list of places where I should go. But a direct recommendation from friends is a lot better since wikipedia lists only places&#x2F;things that are relatively popular.<p>I think a mobile app that keeps track of the paces you have been and then syncs it to wanderlust for friends to see could be really good. I think facebook does it but here it would make sense.<p>Really good work.

There&#x27;s already a Wanderlust:<p><a href="https://github.com/wanderlust/wanderlust" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wanderlust&#x2F;wanderlust</a>

Is there any other open-sourced trip planning code? The main one I could find on github is OpenTripPlanner [<a href="https://github.com/openplans/OpenTripPlanner" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;openplans&#x2F;OpenTripPlanner</a>]<p>The travel industry is plagued by Trip planning startups that don&#x27;t make it. I would have thought one of these might have open-sourced their code before.

You guys might want to add some content. Screenshots for search response to:<p>* Berlin: <a href="http://minus.com/lbzErr5MEypU8x" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;minus.com&#x2F;lbzErr5MEypU8x</a><p>* Paris: <a href="http://minus.com/lpG6vZUm8QuI4" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;minus.com&#x2F;lpG6vZUm8QuI4</a><p>* Prague: <a href="http://minus.com/lbiTwT6lsWNKzQ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;minus.com&#x2F;lbiTwT6lsWNKzQ</a>

I love the app. Very simple and easy to use, I would include facebook as you move towards mobile. It would be nice to see what my trips and plans my friends have in their travels and being able to browse that would prompt me to use the app more and keep me on the app longer. More of a UX comment for the future but I hope it helps. Keep it up. #teamopensource

Wow that is wonderful! Great idea! I have a tourism related startup I shut down 1 year ago, very similar to this, but it was more basic. I was write it in rails as well.<p>I need a week off from work and I can make the UI translatable and finish the Hungarian translation if you are interested.<p>I did not check the source, is it planned to show recommended destinations after I selected a city?

I had created a travel app very very similar to yours earlier this year using RoR and AngularJS as well. Eventually it fell on the wayside. I just open sourced it: <a href="https://github.com/jesalg/Travelizer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jesalg&#x2F;Travelizer</a><p>We should talk about how to collaborate our efforts.

Cheers, this is interesting as I&#x27;ve recently started a travel planning project, incorporating prices of flights, lately. Would love to chat to others who&#x27;ve gained traction, and started making sales in this area.

I get a message saying &quot;No such app&quot;. Does anyone else have this problem?<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/nILZbsh.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;nILZbsh.png</a>

Nice app.<p>I think Comp Sci classes should take these have baked start-ups and let students take a crack at them.<p>So after you add your destinations what are you supposed to do?

Genuine question: Can someone explain how this is different from something like Yelp&#x27;s lists?<p>Is this concept more of a &#x27;share your route&#x27;?

Suggestion: Maybe you can change the messaging on the landing page.<p>&quot;Build your Perfect trip.&quot; or something along those lines might be good.<p>Cool stuff!

Looks nice. Where are you getting the destinations data from?

This would take about a hour to code in Meteor and quite a bit less code as well. Nice job though, love the idea!