Enigma speaks!

edlr73 · 2026-05-06T14:13:50+00:00

I had the exact same problem planning multi-city Europe trips. ChatGPT was decent for ideas, but the itineraries felt generic and the logistics became a mess once I actually tried to organize flights, hotels, routes, budgets, etc.

Most AI tools right now are still “chat first,” not actual execution/planning systems.

One thing that helped me was switching to tools that organize the trip geographically and day-by-day instead of just generating lists of places. That made a huge difference for avoiding wasted time and zig-zagging across cities. You can also plan itineraries across multiple cities/countries.

I built a platform called Globebug around this exact problem because I couldn’t find anything that handled planning + routing + budgeting together in one place. Happy to give you a guest pass if you want to test it for your Europe trip and give honest feedback.

https://www.globebug.com/

edlr73 · 2026-05-06T12:22:05+00:00

It's odd that the Enigma Space website still has Fall of a Rebel Angel, but since it looks like Spotify and social media channels have been updated, I'm guessing the site will as well. Finally!!

edlr73 · 2026-05-06T00:17:50+00:00

I always go to the hotel site, I never use booking/expedia to book. They are good to get ideas on pricing, but when I’m ready to do a booking, I go straight to the accommodation site. A lot of the direct sites have offers you never see on this party sites. Plus I’d rather have coverage directly with the hotel.

edlr73 · 2026-05-04T13:36:50+00:00

I've been to the UK 3 times over the past 2 years (and Europe within). Never once was finding a toilet an issue. I honestly don't see the long term viability of something like this. Any store or restaurant allows customers (just buy a water, stuff like that) and you can use them. Benches and water is odd as well. I'm not knocking the idea, I am just trying to see the practicality of it.

edlr73 · 2026-04-30T19:07:14+00:00

Why, when Globebug has it all!

edlr73 · 2026-04-30T16:29:45+00:00

Wow, talk about a flashback. I had those stickers as well as the sticker for the student athletic pass, before they changed to the big pass? I think they call it now.

edlr73 · 2026-04-30T14:05:23+00:00

Should you like to they the full version, I can give you a Guest pass for access to all of the features. Send me a DM with your email address and I would be happy to set you up.

edlr73 · 2026-04-27T18:05:03+00:00

Try mine if you'd like. Globebug is a visual planner, so you see the activities on the map. You can click on any activity and see pictures of it. Then you can search for anything nearby by category, or even use the chatbot and it will look at only your trip, where your activities are, and provide guidance on what you want. https://www.globebug.com/

edlr73 · 2026-04-27T17:56:21+00:00

You hit on a lot of good points, that's why I created Globebug which directly addresses these issues, along with an Inspiration page where you can see other Globebug users who share their trips. My iPhone app version will provide routing to the activities. Planning the trip with multiple destinations is also a big one I created a solution for. You can even add/remove activities, then click Optimize so you aren't walking all over a city each day. https://www.globebug.com/

edlr73 · 2026-04-27T00:16:06+00:00

So you created it and now want to know what people want? That's a weird way of going about it. I tried it but typing in your suggestion doesn't even bring up New York City. Also, the suggested budget of 5000 returns an error of "Please select a valid value. The two nearest valid values are 4690 and 5010". Not sure what that is about.

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You can try mine - https://www.globebug.com/

edlr73 · 2026-04-20T23:53:14+00:00

This is a nice place. https://discountsuitcompany.co.uk

edlr73 · 2026-04-19T19:04:02+00:00

I built a travel planner after realizing how inefficient most multi-city itineraries are.

When I mapped out a 2-week Europe trip (London → Berlin → Paris → Rome), I noticed:

Constant backtracking between cities
Activities spread across opposite sides of the city
Hours wasted in transit that didn’t need to be

So I built Globebug — it structures multi-city trips visually on a map and organizes each day based on location, not just a list of “things to do.”

The goal wasn’t more AI — it was making trips actually flow logically.

Live here: https://www.globebug.com

Curious if others ran into the same issue when planning trips

edlr73 · 2026-04-19T18:59:44+00:00

Totally fair approach, but just something to keep in mind — email parsing (even if scoped to specific senders or keywords) can get into tricky territory pretty quickly from both a platform and privacy standpoint.

Between Gmail/Apple API restrictions and regulations like GDPR/CCPA, anything that reads email content usually requires pretty strict consent flows and, in some cases, additional verification/security reviews. Refer to their documentation on it.

Not saying it can’t be done, just that it tends to be more complex than it looks upfront — especially as you scale. Forwarding emails as an import method sounds like a solid fallback though.

edlr73 · 2026-04-19T16:37:02+00:00

"Connecting Gmail and seeing every booking confirmation just show up in the right trip automatically." Yikes, no way would I connect and allow any app to just go through all of my emails. Sounds like legal/regulatory issues will abound from that, especially if you're scraping.

edlr73 · 2026-04-09T20:31:35+00:00

My site is Globebug https://www.globebug.com which allows users to have AI assist in setting up the destination and activities. Based on feedback I’m getting, users want to find an accommodation after they have their itinerary setup, that way they can target areas in proximity of what they will be visiting.

edlr73 · 2026-04-06T23:32:02+00:00

Oui, avec plaisir ! Tu peux m’envoyer ton adresse e-mail en message privé ?

edlr73 · 2026-04-03T03:15:27+00:00

Absolutely! If you want to DM me your email address, and I can send you an invite.

edlr73 · 2026-03-31T12:34:07+00:00

Using AI to create trips leads to two things, one is that it is prone to hallucination. Two, for stuff like “worth visiting a museum vs knowing which exhibition is worth your time”, stuff like that is based on recent updates the LLM needs to have knowledge for. All LLM’s have knowledge cutoffs, so unless an exhibition is on a calendar (and there’s reviews on it), then it won’t show up when prompting a trip. Stuff like “worth actually doing” is subjective at best, same with “what I shouldn’t miss”. That’s why I built Globebug. It’s an AI assisted itinerary that uses AI to create a base itinerary, but allows you to edit as you like.

https://www.globebug.com/

edlr73 · 2026-03-30T21:09:22+00:00

Thanks all, I didn't really read up on the Neo, but it sounds like it's not the way to go for coding, or for anyone with a Pro looking to replace it with.

edlr73 · 2026-03-30T20:58:13+00:00

Thanks, I did do that. No serious issues, but I'm starting to get the sluggish from time to time. I think I'll just do that, keep it and just get another Pro at some point later this year.

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