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.
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 as open source.
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 time building and perfecting algorithm and backend and making live tests and space became very crowded and saw few websites and apps doing similar thing, so I decided to move on. It was idle for few years and recently decided to just open source. Maybe someone would like to use or collaborate.
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 possible daytrips or other activities are. TripAdvisor was too noisy for me. The difference in score for a great, free and restored castle and just four remaining walls was behind the decimal point... You mention there are other websites in the same space?
At the time I was making research, I found one or two, don’t recall from top of my head. Majority of travel apps focus on hotels and/or tickets, not points of interest. The one which focus on points of interest, usually tries to give user most interesting, but not entire schedule.
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. midtown Manhattan), or just some unexpected and pleasant distraction -- hey i saw this neat little restaurant in Chelsea that I just couldn't resist going in....
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 today for museum A therefore it rescheduled for tomorrow and today just go to point of interest B. Schedule is supposed to adapt during trip.
Moreover, app is supposed to learn about you, like speed of walk, duration of lunch, etc.
During real live testing I found that it might be appealing to follow this kind of schedule, since there is no need for decision making. I realized why tour buses and cruise ships are popular.
