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I built a web app last year for planning travel but it's also great for tracking your travels and story telling. We use it for both (plan and log). Check out https://turas.app.

Our trip: https://turas.app/s/taiwan/0vylwa7K

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I've had that in the back of my mind since 2008 and even started building it once but couldn't find a revenue model that made sense - I like that you just decided not to bother with the revenue model!

Indeed, impossible to find a revenue model that makes sense so I gave up and just let folks use it for free since it costs virtually nothing to run (Firebase backend and Google Maps all still within free tier usage). I have all of my own trips on there so I pretty much build it for my wife and I and then there are a few dozen active MAU planning trips as well.

Works out for me and maybe one day I'll open source it when I can't operate it for free any more.

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