{"id":1730,"date":"2013-02-02T00:03:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T18:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2019-08-15T18:10:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:40:22","slug":"vacation-planner-app-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/vacation-planner-app-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"There isn&#8217;t one great trip planner for my vacation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A few months back I was planning my vacation and things weren\u2019t as easy as I thought. I had figured out the destination, booked air tickets, short-listed places to see and hired a car. The challenge however was to set up a local itinerary. I had X places to cover in Y days with optimized routes so we weren\u2019t spending all our time travelling. \u00a0This required finding exact locations &amp; distances between them so as to figure how much could be covered in available time. I had nothing at my disposal but Google Maps &amp; notepad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Based on my own needs, and the way I go about planning my vacation, here are some high-level &#8216;market needs&#8217;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Itinerary Planer: Create, visualize &amp; execute itineraries on interactive maps &amp; calendar<\/li>\n<li>Vacation Content: Genuine holiday suggestions, based on demographics, with verified itineraries[<\/li>\n<li>Marketplace: Get quotes from interested agents on my itinerary<\/li>\n<li>Integration: Link with booking, review, customer engagement &amp; social media platforms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/qph.fs.quoracdn.net\/main-qimg-381fbcd8be572cff2ca1bf93eccb5b4f\" alt=\"Google map for my Singapore trip\" width=\"602\" height=\"189\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Settled with a Google map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Am I working on this project? <!--more-->Nope. But what do you think of the idea?<\/p>\n<p>After going through all the pain, I noticed there were quite a few open questions on Quora and felt I had an answer. I detailed out an entire user story and added a snapshot of the Google map I created for my own vacation (see below).\u00a0That got me quite a lot of credits (that ended up being spent to make a random person&#8217;s random answer promoted to 100 people, in error). I ended up getting in touch with someone working on a similar project, and getting a chance to validate their idea.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <strong><a title=\"Features ideas for a vacation planner app\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/features-ideas-for-vacation-trip-planner-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">next post: feature ideas for a vacation planner app<\/a> that details out the market needs<\/strong>. Feel free to implement \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back I was planning my vacation and things weren\u2019t as easy as I thought. I had figured out the destination, booked air tickets, short-listed places to see and hired a car. The challenge however was to set up a local itinerary. I had X places to cover in Y days with optimized &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/vacation-planner-app-missing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">There isn&#8217;t one great trip planner for my vacation!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,7],"tags":[822,823,821,825,820,824],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-travel","tag-features","tag-ideas","tag-itinerary-planner","tag-travel-planner-website","tag-trip-planner","tag-vacation-planner"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3496,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}