How I stopped spending 6 hours planning trips and built something to fix it

I used to spend entire evenings researching trips — 12 tabs open, comparing hotels, trying to figure out what neighborhood to stay in, what's actually worth doing vs. tourist traps.

So I built Routinex. A few things I learned building an AI travel planner that actually works:

• Generic itineraries are useless. The AI needs real local venue data (we use Foursquare) to recommend places people actually go, not just the top 10 from TripAdvisor

• Hotel prices need to be live, not estimated — users don't trust made-up numbers

• Maps make itineraries 10x more useful — seeing your day laid out geographically changes how you plan

Happy to answer questions about building it or travel planning in general