FlatTrip is a cozy travel app that helps you build trips or find ready-made routes from other travelers.
Tell us how you like to travel - cozy, wild, romantic or lazy and FlapTrip will craft a unique route in seconds.
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This idea was born when I was planning a roadtrip across Germany.
I had to collect everything in one place, make sure I didn’t miss anything, find beautiful spots along the way, and create an optimal route. I also wanted to add some vibe places to get to know the culture better all within my budget.
The trip itself lasted 21 days, and the planning took around two months after work. During the process, I tried several existing travel planners, and in the end, I ended up with a huge Excel sheet and a billion scattered notes on my phone.
But that’s when I thought, it would be so cool to have an app that helps you organize your trip by yourself, without too many steps. Ideally, it would let you share plans with friends and even suggest interesting places along the way.
That’s how the idea for FlapTrip.app was born — an app that helps you plan vibe-based routes.
I’m building it with a small team of passionate people who also love traveling.
Now I’m looking for people who feel connected to this idea, if you’d like to be an early adopter or get involved in any way, I’d love to talk!
Here I’ll be sharing product decisions and small stories about how and what we’re building.
I truly believe in community-driven products and I think travel apps especially live for their users. So I really hope to find the right people here!
Feel free to text me if you’d like to discuss anything!
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Hey Ana,
Thanks for sharing your travel app! I signed up but haven’t received any email yet. I’m guessing beta access is being sent manually?
I’d love to share some thoughts that might help as you refine your product. I recently wrote an article about trip planning apps that you might find interesting:
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I also left a comment on a post from Mitrip, another planning app tackling similar challenges:
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In short, I’d recommend focusing on:
- User value: Would your app have helped you plan a better trip across Germany (or the same trip quality but faster). Every trip planning app focuses on "crafting unique routes in seconds". But there is a reason why it took you 2 months to plan your trip (research, comparison, route optimisation, time/budget constraints optimisation, etc.). Does your product solve all this and provide you with the same flexibility as Excel and your notes do?
- Positioning: What makes your product truly unique? (specific angle, type of traveller, expertise on a country / region, etc.)
- User acquisition: How you will attract users in a cost-efficient and proven way?
- Business model: How you will make money? (freemium, affiliate, ads, etc.)
I know this might sound a bit critical, but it’s meant constructively. Having strong answers to these questions early on will save a lot of time and money later. That said, I like the vibe/mood-based planning concept and your clean design!
I wish you all the best!
Hey Benoit!
Thank you so much for taking the time to share such thoughtful feedback, really appreciate it 🙏
And yes, you’re absolutely right, early access is still manual for now, as we’re testing the onboarding flow and early user interactions before opening it wider.
I also completely agree with your note about AI-driven trip planners. Many products in this space put all the focus on the AI part and that’s exactly what we’re not doing. We’re building FlapTrip as a human-first planner, not just an AI route generator. AI quietly supports the process, but the product itself is a full planning ecosystem.
We took the best features from traditional trip planners: things that actually help people organize and built them into a super user-friendly interface tailored for a younger audience (mostly Gen Z and early Millennials).
The goal is to make the whole experience feel modern, intuitive, and a bit playful, more like something you want to open.
Unlike many other apps, we’re not building a giant internal POI database or pushing sponsored content.
Instead, our recommendation model focuses on relevance, suggesting places that truly match each user’s vibe, style, and budget. The system learns from user behavior and gently introduces fresh, non-obvious ideas they might love but wouldn’t have found otherwise.
We’re currently focusing on Northern Europe, starting with Germany and Sweden, markets that are open to experimentation and have strong early-adopter communities.
And because our product is so community-driven, we want users to not just plan trips, but also share inspiration, exchange routes, and be part of the ecosystem itself.
I’ll definitely read this article, it sounds very aligned with what we’re thinking about.
Would love to stay in touch and exchange insights as we grow - I’m sure we’d have a lot to discuss!
Warmly, Ana ✈️