So I started building my own tool, mainly for myself at first.
It’s a self-hosted travel planner where you can organize trips collaboratively in real time. You can drag and drop places into days, keep track of budgets, manage bookings, and create packing lists.
The real-time collaboration part was probably the trickiest thing to get right. Keeping everything in sync without it becoming overly complicated took a few iterations.
It’s still not perfect and there are definitely areas that need improvement, especially around search and some UX details.
If you’re into travel planning or self-hosting tools, I’d be interested to hear what you think or what you’re missing in tools like this.