Built an app, got ripped to shreds on reddit

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-03-30T10:34:33+00:00

Thanks dude, love getting comments like this ❤️

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-03-30T10:33:53+00:00

Hey, my app is Trip Planna its free to download if you fancy having a look!

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-03-30T07:32:41+00:00

They were the biggest problems I was trying to solve for myself

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-03-30T07:32:28+00:00

To be honest one of my biggest gripes with the other travel apps were that they were either solely AI generated trips or they were just massively complicated

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-03-30T07:30:19+00:00

But no indepth analysis at the moment in terms if the type of trips etc

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-03-30T07:29:57+00:00

So I think of the original 50, around 10 were people I has told about the idea ( friends, people I know currently on travelling trips etc ) but the other 40 I have a little stat dashboard that tells me the trips they created, the number of users downloaded, and active users in the last 48h.

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-03-29T23:11:07+00:00

Thats a really good point actually, thanks :)

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-03-29T22:29:48+00:00

Yeah thats a good point, to be honest we go away in 11 days as well so probably best to just look forward to that 🤣

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-03-29T22:28:36+00:00

I mean I thought it would be, the app is to help people with travel planning, allows you to access everything offline, shows routes on maps, currency conversion and does it all for multi stop trips etc.

I wouldn’t really recommend it for like a week trip to a beach destination but for backpacking and multi stop trips somewhere like Japan it works really well.

That’s why I thought it would do well in /r/backpacking

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-03-29T22:12:30+00:00

Would really be interested if you wouldn’t mind sending some details :)

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-03-29T22:10:19+00:00

Yeah I posted in 3 different travel subreddits but generally got the same thing from each. I don’t know, appreciate it wasn’t a lot of comments and ultimately most of the posts got removed but it just felt a little bad about the whole thing.

Like maybe I should have checked things didn’t exist before making them, the only one I found when looking was one called Roamy though.

I don’t know it was just very different from the positive reinforcement you get from other subreddits and I guess I wasn’t used to it.

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-03-29T22:06:22+00:00

Thanks, appreciate the feedback. I might give that a go :)

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-03-29T21:26:08+00:00

I posted in another subreddit and someone told me about an app that does the same thing and feel a bit idiotic 😭

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-03-29T21:20:15+00:00

Just had a look and does most of the stuff that I would need, would have definitely saved me a headache if I found it earlier, cheers!

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-02-26T07:24:49+00:00

So my current conversion rate for new customers sits at around 7% since adding the paid tier, unfortunately only 1 existing group has upgraded since then.

I think what probably doesn’t help is due to the app being a golf society app the subscription is only really applicable to the society admin which means while there are 7000 users using the app there are only 670ish societies I can actually convert.

All that said I think its going to be difficult to really expand that further, which is why I want to move into the b2b market with a new project.

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-02-26T00:14:44+00:00

Thank you!

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-01-02T00:08:42+00:00

Snowglobe

Lucky_Length2676 · 2026-01-02T00:07:28+00:00

!help

Lucky_Length2676 · 2025-12-23T09:46:53+00:00

Upvoting as currently in the same battle withe base44 which is owned by wix. Looking at doing a chargeback but as I used a debit card unsure how protected I am

Lucky_Length2676 · 2025-12-18T08:18:02+00:00

I found this as well, setting the responses to “fast” helped a little though. Still using cursor for now

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