I feel like this is a platform for exploiting free labor more than a useful tool to help plan traveling. I do not feel "open source" spirit.
I generally don't believe you are an avid traveler building a platform to make your life easier.
> Discover the future of travel planning with TripGeeks' AI-powered itinerary generator! AI takes the hassle out of planning your dream vacation by curating personalized itineraries based on your interests, preferences, and travel style.
:/ :( "Community"
> TripGeeks is a community based travel platform to create and share itineraries with others.
This site says it is community based, but I am not sure where that community comes from. For it to be community based I would expect a member of an already existing community to build something for that community, rather than something being built in hopes of creating a community.
This site is absolutely worse than just showing up at the best rated hostel in a city and having the hostel workers tell you what to do. The expensive hotel suggestions rather than budget hotel and hostel suggestions is clear evidence, imho, of the corruptive power of affiliate marketing and industry first rather than traveler first thinking.
I feel visually assaulted when I click on a trip. I feel like 20 different UI elements are violently vying for my attention. The command bar on the left overloads the senses. My attention is not drawn in any particular location.
50% of the left side bar needs to be horizontal on top as tabs instead of vertically tiled.
A translations tab doesn't belong. Things like language and currency belong on the info page.
The info page itself should have a lot more structured trip metadata than what shows up.
There should be a summary of daily activities near the top of the daily itinerary pages.
The itinerary options is not very well surfaced in the UI.
The pictures themselves frequently feel pretty discordant and clash-y.
The photos do not have associated text/alt text of what they are.
Escape doesn't close the current trip.
The icons on the main page on the right of {featured, latest, top, search} don't have alt text telling you what they do when you hover over them.
Loading the different modes not only lags, but it doesn't have a "loading" image to let you know that the site is working, but slow.
You should probably use web tools to load the site as if you were on a poor connection since there is a high likelihood of using a phone and not bringing a full sized device on a trip.
Use of affiliates for making money is not explained, my ad block also blocks your affiliates. Saying you're "open source", asking for tips, and not explaining affiliate usage rubs me the wrong way.
The "leave a tip" isn't clickable, so I don't see any way to leave a tip if I wanted to.
Yelp has zero value as a review platform (same with tripadvisor), the only review platform with any value is google maps.
I don't see a rating on your trips, only a binary like or not like.
Some of your links are broken. You should probably write a nightly cron job validating all external links on your website. At the very least an "issue" should be generated for all broken links.
The natural lifecycle of everything like this is to eventually offer travel based advertisements or to be corrupted by affiliates. There is a reason just about all travel planning platforms suck, and those same forces that make other sites suck apply to you too. I don't see how you're different.
It feels like you have hustle, which I don't love. It also feels like you are using HN primarily for self promotion, which I also don't love.