Since we've featured many AI-related travel projects in the past 18 months, I wanted to check in to see what tools people in the Travel Massive community are using to build, develop, or market their travel businesses, blogs, or projects.
Here's my current list. Yes, I'm a minimal AI user... for now!
Currently using: grok.com, for casual use and asking random engineering questions (unrelated to travel). Luminar (skylum.com/luminar-ai) for enhancing photos for articles
Planning to use / try out: cloudinary.com — for automating image descriptions for accessibility (alt tags) phoenix.new — to prototype a small travel game I want to test tidewave.ai — AI code assistant to help me build Travel Massive (this platform)
Not using: Rabbit R1 (rabbit.tech) — this was fun for a few days, but more of a novelty for the form factor (a super bright orange case) and hype.
What AI tools are you using right now? Feel free to have a rant if you like!
Great question. It feels like my list keeps getting longer, but I mostly use:
General Purposes * ChatGPT * Claude AI
Research * Perplexity
Other * Appify
But what I'm really leaning into is automations. I'm mostly using Zapier/Make.com but have just started playing with N8N as well. Their agents are pretty cool, so I'm letting them do the hard work .
Works in progress are: Instant Marketing Plan Generator: I just created an automation where people can enter a few details about their business, and they get emailed an automatic marketing plan. Pretty cool if I do say so myself. It's intended to be a lead generation tool for economic development orgs, but so far, it hasn't quite gained traction.
Content (Idea) Aggregator: Another automation I created (just for me) but it would great for journalists, is looping Google News articles into my Notion database, so I have all my "ideas" in one place. For the ideas I like, I tag them as deploy and a second automation runs that uses ChatGPT to turn the article into a suggested LinkedIn post.
CRM: While I love HubSpot, I find it too complicated for my purposes, so I created my own CRM (complete with a note taking form) so I can track all my outreach for free.
I'm only dabbling with ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok at the moment for research outlines or summaries. I've yet to find an AI agent that can do real or useful jobs for me.
On the flipside, it can in some cases (such as customer support) be beneficial to let customers know you are using AI and give them a choice between AI or human. For example, Expedia give their French-speaking customer an option to have an AI-translated chat, or to wait X minutes to talk to a French-speaking agent. In most cases, customers choose the AI option, while those with complex queries choose to wait for a human.
I'm more in the testing phase than deep daily use for most of them right now – and things change fast! Here's my current list:
For general research: Mostly OpenAI (90%), occasionally Gemini (10%); especially for deeper topic dives.
For image/video generation: Midjourney, Recraft, and OpenAI
For marketing & content: - Lovable and Cursor for generating landing pages and prototyping services - Canva (mainly for slides and ad creatives, I rarely use its AI features) - Notion AI: really useful if your business processes already live in the Notion ecosystem.
What's next: Planning to explore AI agents more, and especially dive deeper into Cursor to see if it can help us build more complex services from scratch – potentially replacing some of the no-code/low-code
Because I'm mainly focused on building, I'm currently just using ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot. Both have been super helpful building, marketing, and growing Plan Harmony
One AI superconnector is changing the game. This is a voice/WhatsApp/Email AI in one package that never forgets your conversation from where you last conversed. Oh, and did I say it is on LinkedIn with over 54000 followers ready to match you to connections.
Anyway...
I started out use ChatGPT. Very much passe.
Dabbled with Midjourney without truly harnessing the image generation.
Moved onto Copilot. Even though running on the same engine as ChatGPT it never really lived up to its buzz.
Next came Gemini. Amazing AI that now has image generation built-in to the AI. Almost flawless.
There are a myriad of applications to automate processes that I have accessed without finding a magic button.
I then went after how to master prompts. Duh...Get your AI to ask itself to generate better prompts. It tests the AI to see if they have learned anything from your interactions.
Finally, do you want to know how to get in touch with my AI superconnector? Connect with me on LinkedIn or send me a DM.
That's very cool and possibly the LinkedIn killer (although more likely they will get acquired by them).
I have thought about implementing something like this (an intro-generator) on Travel Massive. The challenge with these kinds of systems is managing the signal-noise ratio. People who are aggressive at sales/recruitment tend to dominate and gamify these kinds of networking platforms and if you don't manage this as the platform owner/designer, people will leave. imo it's better to have 1 GREAT intro a month than 10 lousy intros per day. Anyway, thanks for sharing!
What AI tools are you using right now?
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Since we've featured many AI-related travel projects in the past 18 months, I wanted to check in to see what tools people in the Travel Massive community are using to build, develop, or market their travel businesses, blogs, or projects.
Here's my current list. Yes, I'm a minimal AI user... for now!
Currently using:
grok.com, for casual use and asking random engineering questions (unrelated to travel).
Luminar (skylum.com/luminar-ai) for enhancing photos for articles
Planning to use / try out:
cloudinary.com — for automating image descriptions for accessibility (alt tags)
phoenix.new — to prototype a small travel game I want to test
tidewave.ai — AI code assistant to help me build Travel Massive (this platform)
Not using:
Rabbit R1 (rabbit.tech) — this was fun for a few days, but more of a novelty for the form factor (a super bright orange case) and hype.
What AI tools are you using right now? Feel free to have a rant if you like!
Well it depends on need ;) but here's my list
General use:
- Claude.ai - in my opinion the best for general topics
Marketing/Sales:
- relevance.ai for building agent/tools for specific tasks
- Midjourney/gpt - For photos
- Apify - great scraping tool for LLM fine tuning
In Tripso.ai our dev team are now testing new coding assistants, so yet i don't have feedback from them.
Great question. It feels like my list keeps getting longer, but I mostly use:
General Purposes
* ChatGPT
* Claude AI
Research
* Perplexity
Other
* Appify
But what I'm really leaning into is automations. I'm mostly using Zapier/Make.com but have just started playing with N8N as well. Their agents are pretty cool, so I'm letting them do the hard work .
Works in progress are:
Instant Marketing Plan Generator: I just created an automation where people can enter a few details about their business, and they get emailed an automatic marketing plan. Pretty cool if I do say so myself. It's intended to be a lead generation tool for economic development orgs, but so far, it hasn't quite gained traction.
Content (Idea) Aggregator: Another automation I created (just for me) but it would great for journalists, is looping Google News articles into my Notion database, so I have all my "ideas" in one place. For the ideas I like, I tag them as deploy and a second automation runs that uses ChatGPT to turn the article into a suggested LinkedIn post.
CRM: While I love HubSpot, I find it too complicated for my purposes, so I created my own CRM (complete with a note taking form) so I can track all my outreach for free.
So many possibilities, so little time!
Love this! AI is saving / creating me 100+ hours a month now!
ChatGPT
Creating AI Agents
OpusClip
Repurpose.IO
I'm only dabbling with ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok at the moment for research outlines or summaries. I've yet to find an AI agent that can do real or useful jobs for me.
If you use it in your product, Enrique Dans (usually ahead of the pack) says be wary about declaring it. medium.com/enrique-dans/why-ai-powered-products-are-backfiring-with-consumers-a868bff518b0
On the flipside, it can in some cases (such as customer support) be beneficial to let customers know you are using AI and give them a choice between AI or human. For example, Expedia give their French-speaking customer an option to have an AI-translated chat, or to wait X minutes to talk to a French-speaking agent. In most cases, customers choose the AI option, while those with complex queries choose to wait for a human.
I'm more in the testing phase than deep daily use for most of them right now – and things change fast! Here's my current list:
For general research:
Mostly OpenAI (90%), occasionally Gemini (10%); especially for deeper topic dives.
For image/video generation:
Midjourney, Recraft, and OpenAI
For marketing & content:
- Lovable and Cursor for generating landing pages and prototyping services
- Canva (mainly for slides and ad creatives, I rarely use its AI features)
- Notion AI: really useful if your business processes already live in the Notion ecosystem.
What's next:
Planning to explore AI agents more, and especially dive deeper into Cursor to see if it can help us build more complex services from scratch – potentially replacing some of the no-code/low-code
Because I'm mainly focused on building, I'm currently just using ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot. Both have been super helpful building, marketing, and growing Plan Harmony
One AI superconnector is changing the game. This is a voice/WhatsApp/Email AI in one package that never forgets your conversation from where you last conversed. Oh, and did I say it is on LinkedIn with over 54000 followers ready to match you to connections.
Anyway...
I started out use ChatGPT. Very much passe.
Dabbled with Midjourney without truly harnessing the image generation.
Moved onto Copilot. Even though running on the same engine as ChatGPT it never really lived up to its buzz.
Next came Gemini. Amazing AI that now has image generation built-in to the AI. Almost flawless.
There are a myriad of applications to automate processes that I have accessed without finding a magic button.
I then went after how to master prompts. Duh...Get your AI to ask itself to generate better prompts. It tests the AI to see if they have learned anything from your interactions.
Finally, do you want to know how to get in touch with my AI superconnector? Connect with me on LinkedIn or send me a DM.
www.linkedin.com/in/johnpastor-yougottalovesydney/
Best
John
Hi John, can you share your "AI superconnector" here please as this is the point of the discussion thread.
Just this once - www.linkedin.com/company/boardy
That's very cool and possibly the LinkedIn killer (although more likely they will get acquired by them).
I have thought about implementing something like this (an intro-generator) on Travel Massive. The challenge with these kinds of systems is managing the signal-noise ratio. People who are aggressive at sales/recruitment tend to dominate and gamify these kinds of networking platforms and if you don't manage this as the platform owner/designer, people will leave. imo it's better to have 1 GREAT intro a month than 10 lousy intros per day. Anyway, thanks for sharing!
Google for voice and chat.