city_visit_planner

Consumer and social

travel planning

SHOW HN2019

city_visit_planner

Library for a Travel Service to Optimize Time During Trip to a City

github.com

#trip planner#itinerary optimizer#city travel#sightseeing schedule

64points
14comments
#703of 2,195 in 2019
Top 33%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.21.

Idea: 2 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Cool idea and nice work

    From 2 comments
    • Nice work! We recently had two weeks in Italy where I dreamt up a service like this. I wish to have a service that based on my surroundings and a few parameters tells me what…
      wjnc on HN
    • This is super cool. I’ve been working on an idea that would mesh well with this, I’ll have to explore it more this weekend. Thanks for sharing!
      freehunter on HN

Objections

  • Real cities have unpredictable factors like traffic and detours that a fixed schedule ignores

    From 1 comment
    • this's cool, injecting life into dry programming exercise. But you know, in real world, there're many random forces at work, like traffic congestion, road construction (e.g.…
      deehouie on HN

Requests

  • Support for rescheduling and adapting the schedule during the trip

    From 1 comment
    • Also part of functionality which I wanted to add, is to for user to check what stage he/she at given moment and app would adjust the schedule, for example, user can’t make it…
      igushev on HN
  • Collaborators or co-founders to build a real app

    From 2 comments
    • P.S. If someone wants to build real app, I was looking for someone to collaborate or for co-founders. Although haven’t touch for few years, it’s still interesting idea.
      igushev on HN
    • I started the startup during mobile revolution and had the idea of an app which by given dates and parameters would optimize your time and give perfect trip. I spent too much…
      igushev on HN

Questions

  • Why was it released as open source?

    From 1 comment
    • When I saw this my first thought was this is one of those instances of "client wouldn't pay so I put it up on github". Would love to know the story behind why this got released…
      sam0x17 on HN
  • Are there other websites in the same space?

    From 1 comment
    • Nice work! We recently had two weeks in Italy where I dreamt up a service like this. I wish to have a service that based on my surroundings and a few parameters tells me what…
      wjnc on HN

Alternatives named

  • TripAdvisor

    From 1 comment
    • Nice work! We recently had two weeks in Italy where I dreamt up a service like this. I wish to have a service that based on my surroundings and a few parameters tells me what…
      wjnc on HN

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