I love traveling, and also enjoy planning for it. But I do often find that searching many different sites with basic filters becomes quite cumbersome. I had the idea of adding more advanced features to be able to better pinpoint what exactly the best option would be for each person specifically. It initially started with Flixbus having no “what is the cheapest connection somewhere in May” feature, like Google Flight does have. But I wanted to add more things. I have added that you can add how much it’s worth for you to travel an hour less, or a transfer less, or not arrive/depart in the middle of the night. This will then be taken into account when sorting what is the best connection instead of the cheapest. It also already has a search for Flixbus on what the best connection is in a range of dates, and what the best connection is from a place to any place in the desired country. I want to add too that it takes hostel/hotel prices into account, so that you can say you want to go from Berlin to anywhere in Czechia, for 4 days, and it actually gives you the complete best route to a city with a cheap hostel too. I would love to add more things and am very curious about desires from other travelers for a tool like this, so what do you think and would you like to add?
Trusted reviewers + dynamic review weighting. For example, so many times, some super crappy tourist trap or restaurant is rated very highly. Upon entering the restaurant, that Sysco smell is blatantly obvious: this place sucks. Being able to follow certain reviewers and have ratings recalculated according to my preferences would help people with less travel dollars get to experience more.
There is always going to be people gaming the system.
Not only that places close down or change ownership and/or management. What may have been great one week may be awful the next and vice versa.
Agreed. I could have stated that more clearly. I mean specific reviewers with whose opinion I align. For example, maybe a bunch of people think a certain sandwich shop is garbage. But I think their sandwiches are my platonic ideal. I happened to notice that SandwichLover666 also thinks these sandwiches are perfect. I would like to see an adjusted review scores based on a preference for SL666’s places.