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Last year, my wife and I were planning a 12 day trip and I was struggling with Google Docs moving days around while we planned our final route. Told her to giv

Last year, my wife and I were planning a 12 day trip and I was struggling with Google Docs moving days around while we planned our final route. Told her to give me 2 days and ended up making a small app to help us plan our trip; the first version was built over New Years weekend: https://turas.app https://turas.app Kept working on it and it was good enough to share to Reddit 6 days later [0]. Got a good number of users and still keep it maintained/updated. Also have some videos showing the progress and major features over the last year [1]. It's been fun; my go-to project to tinker on when I feel bored. Tried to monetize it, but didn't really find a market so just keep it free for the users that are on the platform :) The folks that come back to it tend to be obsessive planners (like my spouse). [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/TravelHacks/comments/105s90u/i_built_an_app_to_help_plan_trips_collaboratively/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TravelHacks/comments/105s90u/i_buil... [1] https://www.youtube.com/@turasapp/videos https://www.youtube.com/@turasapp/videos

another-dave 3y ago
Looks cool! Must try it out for our next trip coming up. How did you land on the name Turas by the way? I was expecting an Irish connection as turas means 'trip' in Irish :)
- CharlieDigital 3y ago
  > How did you land on the name Turas by the way Google Translate :) I wanted something short that meant "trip" or "travel". Give it a shot! It's not for everyone (definitely not casual planners). But if you budget, plan schedules, and especially if you plan multi-day trips with other travelers, it's a great tool!
  - another-dave 3y ago
    Ah cool :) yeah will check it out — we're already in the 'Google Sheets' mode of trip planning so sounds like we're in the target market!
throaweyprimy 3y ago
This is cool. I’m not a super planner, but I’d use it.
- CharlieDigital 3y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! Always open to input an ideas; still work on it a few weekends a month and make improvements (just added a timeline/history this past weekend).
sunnybeetroot 3y ago
Nice! I personally use wanderlog and am a paying user (even though the free plan gives me everything I need), maybe you could take inspiration from their monetisation strategy?
- CharlieDigital 3y ago
  Honestly don't know enough about their monetization strategy, but we did a user survey and -- at least the audience of users currently using Turas.app -- only a small % was interested in paying a subscription. So to make that scale, we'd have to invest heavily in marketing to get more users to make it sustainable. Felt like it was better to just keep it free and ad-free :P
princemaple 3y ago
This is so coooool!

another-dave 3y ago

Looks cool! Must try it out for our next trip coming up. How did you land on the name Turas by the way? I was expecting an Irish connection as turas means 'trip' in Irish :)

CharlieDigital 3y ago
> How did you land on the name Turas by the way Google Translate :) I wanted something short that meant "trip" or "travel". Give it a shot! It's not for everyone (definitely not casual planners). But if you budget, plan schedules, and especially if you plan multi-day trips with other travelers, it's a great tool!
- another-dave 3y ago
  Ah cool :) yeah will check it out — we're already in the 'Google Sheets' mode of trip planning so sounds like we're in the target market!

throaweyprimy 3y ago

This is cool. I’m not a super planner, but I’d use it.

CharlieDigital 3y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Always open to input an ideas; still work on it a few weekends a month and make improvements (just added a timeline/history this past weekend).

sunnybeetroot 3y ago

Nice! I personally use wanderlog and am a paying user (even though the free plan gives me everything I need), maybe you could take inspiration from their monetisation strategy?

CharlieDigital 3y ago
Honestly don't know enough about their monetization strategy, but we did a user survey and -- at least the audience of users currently using Turas.app -- only a small % was interested in paying a subscription. So to make that scale, we'd have to invest heavily in marketing to get more users to make it sustainable. Felt like it was better to just keep it free and ad-free :P

princemaple 3y ago

This is so coooool!