Family trip planning is broken. Parents spend hours combing through generic "top 10" lists that don't account for nap schedules, sensory needs, or the reality of traveling with a three-year-old. Vibe Travel fixes that — an AI-powered planner that learns your family's profile and builds real, personalized itineraries for destinations worldwide.
Context
The core insight was simple: every family is different, but every travel app treats them the same. Vibe Travel starts with a family profile — kids’ ages, travel pace, sensory needs, dietary restrictions, budget — and uses that context for everything. Search results, attraction recommendations, and day-by-day itineraries are all filtered through the lens of your specific family, not a generic traveler.
The app includes Scout, a conversational AI assistant powered by Claude, that can plan entire trips from a single prompt, answer questions about destinations, save attractions, and refresh itineraries in real time.
Project Info
Date:
2025-2026
Role:
Sole Builder & Tinkerer
Technologies & Tools:
Claude Code, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Supabase, Anthropic Claude API, Google Places API, OpenWeather API, Viator API, Wikipedia API, Vercel
Activities and Responsibility:
- Defined the full product — problem framing, user flows, feature prioritization, and build sequencing
- Built the family profile system (“Vibe”) as the personalization engine across all features
- Integrated 6 external APIs to enrich AI recommendations with real data (ratings, hours, accessibility, weather, tours)
- Designed and built Scout — an agentic AI assistant with tool use that can plan trips end-to-end from a single prompt
- Shipped full auth, database, and trip management system on Supabase
- Deployed to production on Vercel
Key Features:
- Family Vibe Profile — kids’ ages, sensory needs, pace, dietary restrictions set once and used everywhere
- AI Attraction Search — 12–16 personalized recommendations per destination, enriched with Google Places data
- Nap-time Aware Itinerary Generation — day-by-day plans that account for energy levels, meals, and realistic family pacing
- Scout AI Assistant — conversational, tool-enabled Claude agent that can search, save, and plan in real time
- Sensory-Friendly Filters — accessibility and sensory notes on every attraction
- Live data from Google Places, OpenWeather, Viator, and Wikipedia
Outcome:
- Fully functional, production-deployed SaaS at vibe-travel-six.vercel.app
- Covers 50+ cities worldwide
- Free to use with no credit card required
- Demonstrates full product lifecycle — problem definition through shipped, live product
Build Process:
Discovery
- Identified the gap between generic travel recommendations and the real complexity of family travel
- Mapped user journeys for parents across the full planning lifecycle — inspiration to day-of execution
Build & Iteration
- Started with the family profile system as the foundation — personalization only works if the context is right
- Built search and attraction enrichment before itinerary generation, validating the data quality first
- Added Scout as the agentic layer to tie all features together through conversation
- Refined itinerary generation logic based on real family travel constraints
- Expanded API integrations to reduce AI hallucination with grounded, real-world data
