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I'm working on something similar at http://tripovore.com

Basically I think city guides are obsolete (they have been there for 200 years with no major innovation) and have to be reinvented and trip planning automatized using APIs we have online. I currently use 6 of them: foursquare, songkick, instagram, google places, google translate and facebook. I've been working on this for the past 8 months, but I'm having UX difficulties keeping such a complex problem as simple as possible. I first started this during the foursquare hackathon 2011 and the project won the grand prize (called my next trip at that time).

Would love to hear any feedbacks you got at feedback@tripovore.com

Thanks!

Would love to know what's the source of the location name autocomplete, this is not the first page where my city name of "Taipei" gets corrected to merely "Da-an District, Taiwan" - no city name, just one of the many districts of the city. If I wasn't living here, it would be mighty confusing.

Google Places API

Wow, really like the visuals. A quick suggestion would be to have the route shown on the map. It would provide a visual tie-in with suggested itinerary.

Keep up the great work!

Thanks man. Routes are hard to do with Google Maps + Google Directions. But you get an idea of the walking time it would take you, between steps. But there's a bug I have to fix there.

It took me 10 seconds to go from your landing page to a really useful page full of things to do in Berlin. Awesome work!

Thank you ! I really think the main problem with most of those apps is that you have to register to do anything. I was trying to avoid that.

This looks awesome! Love how the UI works and simplicity of it all. Very intuitive.

Thank you !

UI-wise you win big time. But where is your code repository?

Thanks. Not sure if I'm ready to open the source code.

Nice ui. Your blog doesn't load btw.

Thanks man. Yeah I haven't had the time to write on it. Just the About page: http://blog.tripovore.com/about/

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