Title: We&#x27;re Peter and Harry, and we&#x27;re building Travelchime (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;travelchime.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;travelchime.com</a>).<p>Travelchime is like Google Docs for planning vacation travel with your friends&#x27; recommendations. It lets you add places and attractions you&#x27;re looking to visit to a doc, export them to Google Maps, and collaborate with your friends who&#x27;ve been there or are going there with you.<p>We used to plan our trips using Google Docs and Sheets, but it was a pain. We&#x27;d write the documents, then had to add the same places to a map for when we&#x27;re on the trip. We also often sent these out to friends who asked -- there&#x27;s nobody whose recommendations you trust more than your friends -- but it&#x27;s hard to find which friends have these docs.<p>We built Travelchime to solve this. With Travelchime, you can:<p>1. Add all the museums, restaurants, and places you&#x27;re staying&#x2F;want to visit to a doc on Travelchime, and see them on a map with their opening times, links to Yelp, and more<p>2. Share the doc with friends on the trip or ask others for recommendations: multiple people can edit&#x2F;suggest at the same time, just like Google Docs [1]<p>3. Export the places to Google Maps for when you&#x27;re on the go<p>4. (Optional) Read some itineraries from around the web to get inspired! We use basic machine learning [2] to parse itineraries for the places they mention to help get you started<p>5. Once you’ve gone on the trip, you can share the full itinerary with notes to inspire your friends<p>We haven’t monetized, but will eventually link out to hotels that work well with your itinerary and get affiliate commissions there.<p>We&#x27;ve gotten a ton of support from Hacker News in the past: when Yale shut down our courses website, Hacker News rallied and got the attention on it to save it (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7060261" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7060261</a>), and past HN launches (e.g., for WrapAPI: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11423070" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11423070</a>) got us our first paying customers. We love the direct feedback we get, so if you&#x27;re planning a trip soon, give it a shot and let us know what you think either here or by email at peter@travelchime.com!<p>[1] To enable real-time editing, we use Quill (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quilljs.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quilljs.com&#x2F;</a>) and ShareDB (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;sharedb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;sharedb</a>), both amazing projects. We had also tried Draft.js, Slate, so if you want to chat text editing hit us up!<p>[2] A combination of Google&#x27;s Entity Recognition API, Google Maps&#x27; APIs, and human checkers<p>[3] For those curious: we &lt;3 React and have an all-Javascript stack with Node.js and MySQL on the back-end
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