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TripGeniusAI

This project is an AI powered web app that provides users with AI generated itineraries for travel.

How does it work?

TripGeniusAI is fed a location and generates custom trip plans that work around the users time and budget constraints and playlists that match the vibe of the vacation. Additionally, it takes into consideration the environmental impact of travelling and helps users understand and offset their emissions.

Benefits

TripGeniusAI provides its users with benefits that help with mental health, cultivate education, and make travel more accessible.

Mental Health

Although traveling helps reduce stress, improve mindfulness, and boosts mood, the process of planning for a trip can cause unecessary strain. TripGeniusAI takes the pressure off the travellers and allows them to enjoy the journey.

Educational

Traveling can provide a great number of educational opportunities, but finding the right ones can be a hassle. TripGeniusAI makes this easy by providing users with recommendations of travel spots that are educational, allowing travellers to learn through their adventures.

Environmental

A typical passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. Traveling can add to this by adding a lot of uneccessary greenhouse emissions, making it difficult to travel green. TripGeniusAI makes it easy for users to offset their carbon emissions, making traveling more eco-friendly accessible.

Our Inspiration

We started by brainstorming our skill-set and identifying problems that we personally faced in work, relationships, health, and play. From that we determined that there was a need for a platform that promotes mental well-being, education, and eco-friendliness. To determine how we wanted to solve this, we interviewed over 15 students to gauge the best way to approach this problem. From those interviews, we saw that most students preferred shorter road trips over semester long study abroad, although there was still interest in traveling longer distances. We also saw that an important factor for the trips, aside from money and time, was the music playlist. We took all of this information and created TripGeniusAI, a hassle-free way of traveling.

What We Learned

In addition to the customer discovery interviews, we learned a lot about the general hackathon experience, given that two of our team members are new hackers. A technology that all three of us used for the first time was Twilio. We learned how to set up SMS texting and used this to communicate to our users the trips they selected and shared.

How We Built It

We built TripGeniusAI using a variety of AI technologies to assist our users in planning trips. We also made use of Typescript to create the interface and CockroachDB to store the data in the backend. We also made use of Twilio to set up a messaging service that notifies users of their trip status. Additionally, to assist in collaboration, we used Github to work together on the project.

The Challenges

One of the main challenges we faced was making the user experience as simple as possible to make trip planning stress-free. We spent a lot of time working on UI design and working through different iterations to make sure we could provide the best product for our end-users.