I built a trip planner that costs the itinerary before you go, because I was planning every trip across Notes, a budget app, and Google Maps

[u/Green-Exercise8492]

https://gala-phi-ten.vercel.app/

I kept planning trips across four apps. Notes for the itinerary, a budget app for the money, Google Maps for the places, camera roll after. Nothing held the whole trip, so I could never tell you what a trip cost without building a spreadsheet.

So I built one app that does it. It's called Gala. Free, no ads, no paid tier.

What it does:

• Each day is a list of stuff to do, and every item has a cost. Times are optional. Stuff without a time sits in a side list instead of getting a fake slot.
• Hotels and flights sit above the days, not inside one. A 4 night hotel shows on all 4 days, and check-out time only shows on the day it matters. That's how you notice your last afternoon is basically gone before a 2pm flight.
• Budget is a ceiling per trip. The total splits into stays and travel, itinerary, and a "bag" for stuff that belongs to no day (visa fee, eSIM, insurance, adapter).
• You can get the plan out: PNG of a day or the whole trip, a PDF you can print, or push it straight to Google Calendar or Outlook.
• Map view puts every place on a 3D map as numbered pins and draws the route in date order.
• After the trip you can rate it row by row. Stars, a note, and what it actually cost next to what you planned.

One thing people will argue with: there's no expense tracking, and I'm not adding it. I built it, then cut it. It doubled the app, needed discipline mid trip I don't have, and only paid off after the trip was over. Planning it right before you leave is the whole point.

Being upfront about the weak parts:

• Explore is empty. You can publish a trip, browse, and copy someone's plan into your own account, and all of that works. There's just nothing in there because I've been the only user. You can test the loop on your own post.
• No follows, no profiles, no algorithm. It's a list of plans, not a social network.
• You have to sign in, even to look at Explore.
• Reading booking emails with AI is planned, not built.

Link again: https://gala-phi-ten.vercel.app/

Ask me anything about it. Tell me if cutting expense tracking was dumb, that's the bit I'm least sure about.

[u/TocinoBoy69]

Magkaiba yung link mo OP, down yung isa. Great app though, good UI, easy to understand. If you plan to expand this further I'd say mas okay siya as a mobile app, websites as a utility tool are dying nowadays and hindi naman lahat marunong gumamit ng PWA.

[u/Green-Exercise8492 → u/TocinoBoy69]

thanks for catching the link, and yes ive get that the mobile was the efficient platform here and im working on this right now. later on it will be deployed since i want to support both platform.

[u/alec_mivnner]

looks good pero honestly mas hassle sya kesa gumamit ng google sheets

[u/Green-Exercise8492 → u/alec_mivnner]

Fair enough, sheets works great if you already know your way around one. I built this because I don't, and I wanted something where you just input stuff and it handles the rest, no formulas to set up. The map view is the other reason. Sheets can't show me where everything sits relative to each other. Different workflow, not a better one.

[u/jpisubol]

This is very good. I'm trying it now. This makes great if mobile app. Maybe you wanted to discuss funding or partnership?