Vela
Recommendations that take you places
20 followers
Recommendations that take you places
20 followers
Meet Vela: A new way to explore and share travel recommendations. Vela started from a personal frustration—planning our honeymoon, my wife and I realized how clunky traditional travel planning was. Endless tabs, scattered notes, no easy way to save or share great finds.
🌍 Discover destinations aligned with your travel style.
🍽️ Find and save restaurants, hotels, and experiences.
📍 Organize recommendations into lists, accessible on-the-go.
We're excited to hear your feedback!
Hey Product Hunt community! 👋
I was planning my honeymoon when my wife and I reached out to a travel agency—and we were pretty shocked to be turned down because our budget was "too low" for their services. This rejection sparked something in us, prompting us to dive into planning the trip ourselves. Immediately, we felt the pain of navigating dozens of websites and cobbling together our itinerary using tools like Google Docs and Sheets.
It turns out we weren't alone: travelers visit up to 38 websites in the 45 days leading up to a trip, and our research confirmed that many others felt the same frustration. After launching a simple landing page, we were blown away to see 750 organic waitlist sign-ups—proof that travelers everywhere are craving a better way.
In 2022 alone, 1.13 billion people used travel apps, yet most still don't offer the delightful, personalized experience that travelers actually want. We kept hearing feedback like, "I just want recommendations I can trust—from friends and people who travel like me."
So, we built Vela: an AI-powered travel platform that delivers personalized recommendations based on your individual preferences and the trusted insights of your community, making trip planning fun, collaborative, and seamless.
We're super excited to launch our beta today and start building toward our vision for 2030—a world where planning your next adventure is not just easy, but genuinely delightful and deeply personal.
We’d love for you to join us on this journey and hear your feedback. Let us know what you think!