A community travel platform that streamlines planning, reduces the friction with group trips & uses the power of social experiences to provide unique travel experiences!
The Problem Statement
Group planning is broken, decentralized, and doesn’t represent the group planning the trip, a collaborative planning tool for small to medium groups with modern features is needed in today’s travel-friendly world.
Background & Insights
While researching the problem we found that Millenials were spending a considerable amount on travel, planned their trips with smartphones, and were willing to spend more money on experiences vs physical possessions and found those experiences via social media. This led to the idea of Travassist.
The Solution
Travassist, is a mobile application that allows modern trip planning, combining common features like communication (group text messaging), collaboration, research, and split payments that allows groups to have a singular place to plan trips and to have information at their finger tips. Trip goers can communicate in the app, taking planning out of the group text, google doc, spreadsheet and hole host of other apps that people use to plan trips. In addition to communication Travassist adds features like voting, calendar syncing, split payments and an itinerary page for quickly finding trip info such as hotel address or when your compadres are scheduled to get in. It’s truly an app for 0 > 1 trip planning.
My Role
As the co-founder I wear many hats in this project including but not limited to:
Product Discovery (Problem Validation, User Research)
Product Planning (Product Visio, Market Research, MVP prioritization, Roadmapping)
Product Development (Requirements, Mobile Development, Testing)
Currently Travassist is in development looking for a MVP release in early 2024.
A network of destinations, lodging, events is being created to assist users with their planning efforts
Relationships with travel agencies is being created
Relationships with group trip providers are being created as we plan to use Travassist as a tool for professional group travel planners in the future.