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Guidesty is a cooperative travel planner where a group of travellers can build an itinerary, vote on ideas and split the bill. I founded it with my longtime friend Mohamed and it's under active development.

Planning a group trip often leaves one person maintaining a spreadsheet while everyone else sends suggestions in a chat. I’m building Guidesty with Mohamed and we got brand identity help from Ben to let the whole group take part: a board of days beside a map, with polls, a shared budget and an AI that helps draft the itinerary.

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All functionality without need for signup

You can start a trip without an account and invite a friend who only needs to enter a name. Signing up later keeps the same trip and membership. That decision runs through the data model and the interface: the first thing we ask someone to do is plan, and we explain when an account is advised to keep their work safe.

The board updates live for everyone as it changes. We use SvelteKit and Convex to keep everything update in an instance on all screens. Adjustments in the itinerary can be made by all travellers simultaneously and we make sure that the trip does not become corrupted in data.

Votes can change the itinerary

Polls can be organized to refer to actual stops on the board. Once the group chooses, the automated agent can rewrite that day around the winning option and leave out the rejected suggestions. It receives the existing itinerary as context, so a change to Tuesday takes Monday and Wednesday into account.

Another very useful feature is the budget and bill splitting. Everyone can enter their expenses and we can show who could pay whom in order to make it even.

Where it stands

The web app is running, and the same interface has iOS and Android builds in internal testing through Capacitor. The presence in app stores is coming up soon!