Tripstr

Tripstr

Turn your trips' photos into a beautiful, shareable story.

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This is the 3rd launch from Tripstr. View more

Tripstr 3.0

Turn your iPhone photos into instant trip stories
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Launch tags:Travel•Photography•Maps
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Austin Cooley
Maker
Austin Cooley here, co-founder of Tripstr. I'm stoked about this launch—Tripstr represents the culmination of years of hard work by our team. Our vision from the very beginning has been to spread the wealth of travel knowledge we all possess after returning from a great trip. The realization was that the current ways of sharing that information require WAY too much work (ask any travel blogger…it's a full time job), and we knew we could simplify the process by taking advantage of the metadata in our phones. The end result is an app that (a) finds all the trips you've taken, (b) instantly builds a detailed itinerary with specifics about the places you've visited and (c) presents it in a beautiful, memorable way. The end result feels a lot like Pinterest or TripAdvisor (see http://tripstr.com), but the difference is that each post on Tripstr is 100% authentic: backed by real trips taken by real people. We'd love to hear your thoughts. This has been an incredibly challenging project, both from an engineering and design perspective. You can read about the process we took here if you're interested! https://medium.com/@tripstr/test...
Austin Cooley
Maker
@tripstr also, here's the trip we took across the USA while building the latest version: https://tripstr.com/journal/1dc8...
Abhishek Ghuwalewala
Tripnary
@adcooley @tripstr Congrats on the launch!
Austin Cooley
Maker
Ben Erez
Breathe for iOS
Recently went on a 10 day national parks trip with my wife and Tripstr helped us turn hundreds of photos into an awesome tripstr trip we can share and reminisce!
Mohit
Hi Austin, Great app. I had a question about privacy. How much of this data is stored on your servers? Or all this magic is happening on device?
Austin Cooley
Maker
@mphreak Thanks! All the the magic actually happens on device (scanning you photo library and organizing the photos). Once you choose to 'Edit a Journal', we start uploading photos from that trip so that you can share it on the web and with other users. After the sync is finished, you can still set the journal to 'private', which means it can only be seen with the link. Thoughts?
Mohit
@adcooley After the sync what is the default mode? Private or ?
Austin Cooley
Maker
@mphreak Default mode is Private
Brian Sunter
Loving making rich travel journals and getting inspiration from my friends' trips! The full screen web interface is amazing btw.
Austin Cooley
Maker
@bsunter Awesome! And thanks, the web interface is really the piece that brings it all together. Places + Maps + Photos makes for an awesome experience pretty much every time.
Adam Reed
Nice! Love the split screen on the desktop/web interface. Just curious, what's the site built on?
Austin Cooley
Maker
@adamnreed thanks, it was really fun to build. It's a Universal (isomorphic) React app, with Redux for store/state management. The maps are built on Mapbox, which made it incredibly easy to build the flyover animations. Essentially as you scroll, the global application state updates and the Map updates itself accordingly. The only hiccup was the combination of Mapbox GL (front-end javascript library) and Universal React. Any time you try running a 'browser only' library on the backend nodejs server, it complains about not having access to `window`. I'll be posting a blog post soon about it :)
Troy Sultan
Hey Austin -- really slick app. Curious how your seeing people use this. It is used mainly for documenting long/planned trips or are users finding value in documenting every day photos & experiences?
Austin Cooley
Maker
@destroysultan thanks! Most people start out with the one or two longs trips on their phone that they wouldn't have shared otherwise. From there, the app does really well with shorter day trips, but we aren't seeing the every day sharing, nor was that really the intent. The main use case for returning to Tripstr in between trips is similar to why you'd use Pinterest…getting inspiration for future trips and collecting places. We're looking to really enhance that functionality in the coming weeks!
Steven Law
Exciting app. Looking forward to making some trips.
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