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Show HN: Plan trips from Instagram reels in minutes
What is the problem?
People save a lot of travel reels on instagram by bookmarking them. But there is no easy way to convert the reels into actual trips. Real scenarios:
- Where is that reel from Italy I saved a few months ago?
Lost in the Instagram saved collection or whatsapp chats.
- I am visiting Italy soon. How do I find all my saved reels just from Italy?
Impossible to find if you have saved thousands of reels.
- I managed to find all the Italy reels I saved. How do I convert them into an actual trip?
Even if you found all the reels, planning a trip from them involves rewatching each & every reel, noting down all the locations found in each reel & then somehow converting them into an actual trip. This can take days to do manually.
How does Map Your Voyage solve this?
5 simple steps:
1. [One time process] Create an account on Map Your Voyage.
2. [One time process] Enter your instagram username & verify the account. Once your account is verified, you will be shown an instagram username where you need to send your favorite travel reels as DMs.
3. Start sending your favorite travel reels as DM to the Instagram account shown to you in the 2nd step.
4. Our AI automatically detects all the locations from the reels & organizes them into country specific bucket lists. All of this happens in the background without you ever leaving the instagram app.
5. When you are ready to visit a country, just convert the bucket list into a daywise itinerary covering all your favorite locations.
I’d love to hear your thoughts—whether it’s what you liked, what didn’t work, or any suggestions for improvement. Every bit of feedback will help me shape the next steps.
Thanks for taking a look—happy to answer any questions!
- toomuchtodo 9mo agoVery cool, planning a trip now with a collection of shared reels and very excited to try this out with that!
- shivam-myv 9mo agoThank you! Looking forward to your feedback.
- codingdave 9mo agoI don't buy the premise - reels might inspire an overall location to visit, but they don't become the itinerary. I'm going to do my own research and select where to go and what to do. If all I wanted to do was see what was in the reels, I don't need to leave my desk for that.
- shivam-myv 9mo agoI agree that reels often just inspire an overall destination—but as a traveler, you want full control over your itinerary. We do take care of this in Map Your Voyage. When you DM your reels, we automatically detect all locations in them. Then, during trip planning, you decide exactly what to include: - Specific spots, like only Location 1 and Location 5 from Reel 1. - Just Location 3 from Reel 2. - Your own additions via the Google search bar. - Locations from a blog post or YouTube video, with easy deselection based on your preferences. If reels aren't your thing, skip them entirely and build your list manually using the search bar. The magic happens when you shortlist locations from any source—then we generate a day-by-day itinerary using only what you've selected (with an option to disable AI suggestions entirely). Reels are just one starting point; you stay in the driver's seat. In the demo video, we have shown this briefly here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk9rmTndjnQ&t=222s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk9rmTndjnQ&t=222s