Ribbit
AI itinerary planner that builds day-by-day trips, syncs bookings, and coordinates groups.
Tagline
Your trip, planned in seconds
The travel app that turns bookings into a real itinerary
Stop juggling email, notes, and group chat for trips
Group trips without the chaos
The travel planning app that turns a destination into a complete itinerary, not just a list of suggestions.
The page repeatedly emphasizes day-by-day structure, schedules, maps, directions, and booking ingestion. That is materially different from inspirational travel apps or generic AI chatbots.
The alternative to juggling Notes, Calendar, email, and group chat for every trip.
The strongest proof on the page is the combination of booking scanning, collaboration, budget tracking, and itinerary organization. This is a consolidation story, and it’s more concrete than “AI travel assistant.”
The trip-planning painkiller for group travel coordination and expense splitting.
Group planning is one of the few clearly differentiated workflows on the page: invites, votes, split costs, and real-time syncing. That makes Ribbit more defensible than a generic itinerary generator.
Primary user
Vacation planners and family trip organizers who want one app to build, organize, and share a trip itinerary
ICP #1
Parent planning a family vacation with 4-6 people and multiple moving parts
Pain
They are juggling flights, hotel confirmations, kid-friendly activities, dining reservations, and budget expectations across email, notes, and calendars.
Why this solves
Ribbit automatically pulls confirmations from email, builds a day-by-day itinerary, and keeps everything in one shared view, which is exactly what a parent needs to stop managing the trip manually.
ICP #2
Engineering manager organizing a group trip for friends or coworkers
Pain
Group chats turn into chaos when everyone has different activity preferences, payment expectations, and arrival times.
Why this solves
Ribbit’s invite, vote, split-cost, and shared-plan workflow matches the actual coordination problem, not just the inspiration phase.
ICP #3
Frequent leisure traveler who books tours and short stays several times a year
Pain
They repeatedly waste time rebuilding itineraries, re-entering reservations, and figuring out what to do once they arrive.
Why this solves
Lily generates itineraries fast, nearby discovery surfaces activities, and live flight alerts plus booking scanning reduce the admin overhead of every trip.
Strengths
- +The page shows the product, not just talks about it: plan view, Lily chat, group planning, flight tracker, budget, and nearby discovery screenshots make the experience tangible.
- +The feature stack is unusually complete for a travel app: itinerary generation, booking import, live alerts, budgets, and group collaboration all in one product.
- +The value prop is easy to grasp quickly: "Tell Lily where you're going and she builds your full itinerary in seconds."
Weaknesses
- −The landing page tries to serve too many use cases at once: road trips, daily routines, dream vacations, group planning, budgets, flight tracking, and family sharing. That muddies the core story.
- −The AI pitch is still too generic in places. It says Lily builds itineraries, but doesn’t show enough specificity about inputs, quality controls, or what makes the recommendations better than ChatGPT plus Google Maps.
- −There’s not enough proof that the itineraries are actually good. The page shows sample activities, but lacks before/after examples, user outcomes, or a clear trust signal beyond "10,000+ planners" and app ratings.
- −The free vs Pro boundary is buried in a feature list instead of being framed as a compelling upgrade path for power users.
- −The page underplays the strongest differentiator: group coordination and booking ingestion. Those should be front and center, not secondary bullets.
Fix these
- Pick one primary wedge for the hero section: group trips or family vacations. Right now the page is broad enough to feel unfocused.
- Add a concrete demo flow: destination + dates + travel style in, full itinerary and budget out, with a real example itinerary visible on-page.
- Reframe Lily around decision-making, not just generation: explain how she chooses activities, times, and sequencing, and what inputs users can edit.
- Move group planning and booking import higher on the page with a side-by-side comparison against the current chaos of email, notes, and group chats.
- Create sharper upgrade messaging for Ribbit Pro, especially around unlimited Lily messages, calendar sync, offline access, and family sharing, so the paid tier feels necessary rather than optional.
Drop-in replacement copy
Headline
Plan trips without the chaos
Ribbit builds your itinerary, imports bookings, and keeps your group aligned.
Get a real itinerary in seconds
Tell Lily your destination, dates, and travel style, and she builds a day-by-day plan you can actually use. You can edit anything, so the trip stays yours.
Keep bookings out of your inbox
Ribbit scans email for flight, hotel, tour, and car rental confirmations, then organizes them into your trip. No more hunting through old threads before you leave.
Make group travel less annoying
Invite people, vote on plans, split costs, and keep everyone on the same page in one shared view. It replaces the endless back-and-forth in group chat.
See the money and the timing
Track budgets, expenses, flights, and live changes in one place. That means fewer surprises and fewer “wait, when are we landing?” texts.
FAQ
Is Ribbit just ChatGPT for travel?
No. Ribbit is built around the workflow of actually planning a trip: itinerary, bookings, group coordination, budget, and flight updates. Lily generates the plan, but the app organizes the whole trip.
How does Ribbit find my bookings?
Ribbit scans connected email for confirmations from airlines, hotels, tours, and car rentals. It pulls those details into your trip automatically so you don’t have to copy them over.
Can I use Ribbit for group trips?
Yes. That’s one of the core use cases. You can invite people, vote on options, split expenses, and keep the itinerary shared so nobody is guessing what’s happening.
Does Ribbit work for family vacations?
Yes. It’s especially useful when one person is handling flights, activities, meals, and timing for multiple people. Ribbit turns that into one readable itinerary instead of scattered notes.
What makes the paid version worth it?
Paid features should make Ribbit the trip command center: unlimited Lily usage, calendar sync, offline access, and family sharing. The upgrade is for people who plan trips often and want less manual work.
Trip planning is still stupidly manual. Ribbit takes a destination + dates + preferences and builds a day-by-day itinerary in seconds. It also pulls bookings from email, tracks budgets, and keeps groups aligned in one shared plan. Free to try.
Most travel apps stop at inspiration. That’s useless when you already booked the flights. We built Ribbit to handle the annoying part: organize bookings, generate the itinerary, surface things to do nearby, and keep the whole trip in sync.
Group chats ruin every vacation. One person wants beach. One wants museums. Someone hasn’t booked the hotel. Someone else sent the flight in a screenshot. Ribbit puts the trip in one shared plan with votes, expenses, and live updates.
Type Tokyo + your dates + how you like to travel. Ribbit’s assistant Lily builds the day-by-day plan, adds tours and restaurants, and keeps the schedule readable instead of chaotic. Then it pulls in your bookings from email automatically.
10,000+ trip planners use Ribbit. People use it to stop rebuilding itineraries from scratch, keep family trips organized, and make group travel less annoying. The feedback we keep hearing: finally one place for the whole trip.
ChatGPT is not a travel app. It won’t organize your bookings, track your budget, or keep your group aligned. Ribbit does the boring work for real trips: itinerary, email import, activity discovery, flight alerts, and expense splitting.
We kept seeing the same mess. Flights in email. Hotel details in notes. Restaurant picks in DMs. Budget arguments in group chat. So we built Ribbit to be the one place the trip actually lives.
Planning a family trip is unpaid work. You’re handling flights, hotel confirmations, kid-friendly activities, meals, and budget expectations across five apps. Ribbit pulls it into one itinerary so you can stop being the human spreadsheet.
This is the part nobody wants: copying booking details into a calendar. Ribbit scans your email, finds the flights, hotels, tours, and car rentals, then organizes them into a trip view you can actually use.
The best trip apps save decisions. What time should we leave? Which tour fits day 2? Who paid for what? Did the flight gate change? Ribbit answers those questions before they turn into texts.
Angle: family vacation planning chaos
Family trip planning is weirdly one of the most fragmented jobs on the internet. Flights live in email. Hotel confirmations get buried. Activities are scattered across tabs. The budget is in someone’s head. And then one person becomes the default project manager. We built Ribbit for that exact mess. Tell Lily the destination, dates, and travel style, and she builds a day-by-day itinerary in seconds. Then Ribbit pulls bookings from email, surfaces nearby activities, tracks spend, and keeps the whole trip in one shared plan. What I like about this problem is that it’s not just about “planning.” It’s about reducing coordination overhead for real people with real trips. If you’ve ever organized a vacation for 4+ people, you know the pain. I’d love feedback from anyone who plans family trips, group trips, or friend getaways: what part of the workflow is still the most annoying?
Angle: group coordination and split costs
The moment a trip becomes a group trip, everything gets harder. Preferences diverge. Arrivals differ. Someone wants to budget tightly. Someone else just wants the nicest hotel. And the group chat turns into a slow-motion negotiation. That’s why we leaned into group coordination as a first-class workflow in Ribbit. Invites. Voting. Shared plans. Expense splitting. Live flight alerts. Not “travel inspiration.” Actual trip logistics. I think a lot of consumer software fails because it optimizes for the fun part of a problem, not the painful part. The painful part is usually where the value is. Ribbit is our attempt to make group travel feel less like project management and more like, well, travel. If you’ve ever been the person organizing the trip, I’d love to know: what do you currently use, and where does it break?
Angle: replace notes, calendar, email, and chat
One of the clearest product insights we had was this: People do not have a travel planning problem. They have a travel fragmentation problem. The trip is split across Notes, Calendar, email, screenshots, links, and group chats. That’s the real workflow. Ribbit is built to collapse that stack into one place. Lily generates the itinerary. Email scanning pulls in bookings. The schedule view organizes each day. Budgeting and expenses keep money visible. Group tools keep everyone aligned. This is the kind of product I like building: simple to explain, useful immediately, and deeply tied to a real behavior people already have. We’re still iterating fast, especially on how to make the itinerary output more trustworthy and more useful right away. If you plan trips often, I’d appreciate a blunt opinion: what would make you trust an AI-generated itinerary enough to actually use it?
Tagline
AI itinerary planner for real trips
Description
Tell Ribbit where you're going and it builds a day-by-day plan, imports bookings from email, tracks budgets, and keeps groups aligned in one shared trip.
Maker's first comment
We built Ribbit because travel planning kept falling apart in the same way every time: flights in email, hotel confirmations in screenshots, restaurant ideas in Notes, and group decisions in chat. The actual trip was never the hard part - the coordination was. Lily, our AI assistant, is our attempt to remove that friction. You give Ribbit a destination, dates, and a few preferences, and it builds a usable itinerary instead of a blank chat box. Then it pulls in bookings, suggests nearby activities, helps groups vote on plans, tracks spend, and keeps everything in one place. We’re not trying to be a generic travel inspiration app. We’re trying to be the app people open when they already have a trip to manage. If you try Ribbit, I’d love feedback on one thing in particular: does the itinerary feel useful enough to trust, edit, and share with other people?
Pinned maker comment
Would love feedback on the itinerary quality and the group planning flow. If you’re a heavy traveler, tell me where Ribbit feels genuinely useful and where it still feels like extra work.
Meta
Planning a family trip is chaos
Hypothesis: parents organizing 4+ person vacations want one app that pulls bookings, builds the itinerary, and keeps everyone aligned. Ribbit turns a destination + dates into a day-by-day trip plan, imports bookings from email, and tracks budgets in one shared view.
Google Search
Trip planner with itinerary + bookings
Hypothesis: people searching for itinerary planners are really looking for a way to organize flights, hotels, activities, and group plans in one place. Ribbit builds a trip plan in seconds, imports confirmations, and keeps budgets and schedules together.
Reddit Promoted
If group trips always fall apart, try this
Hypothesis: members of travel and side-project communities are tired of juggling notes, email, and group chats for every trip. Ribbit gives you a shared itinerary, booking import, voting, expense splitting, and live flight alerts so the trip lives in one place.
Subreddits
r/SideProject
Build story + product demo: how you turned travel chaos into one shared itinerary app
Rules: Share what you learned, avoid hype, no pure promo without context
r/indiehackers
Founder lesson: why travel planning is really a coordination problem, not an inspiration problem
Rules: Must be transparent, educational, and founder-focused
r/microsaas
Show the workflow that saves time for families and group travelers
Rules: Keep it small, useful, and very product-specific; avoid spammy links
r/EntrepreneurRideAlong
Journey post about shipping, early users, and how travel apps get judged on usefulness fast
Rules: Share progress and metrics, not a polished ad
r/travel
Discussion post: what actually makes trip planning less painful for families and groups
Rules: Read posting rules carefully, self-promo is often restricted, lead with discussion
Communities
Post build logs, not launches. Comment on travel, consumer app, and AI threads with specific lessons from shipping Ribbit.
Share concise lessons about consumer onboarding and retention. Ask for feedback on the trip-planning workflow, not generic growth advice.
r/solotravel Discord
Join conversations about planning tools and itinerary pain, then offer Ribbit only when someone asks how to organize bookings or day plans.
Cold outreach template
Hey {firstName} - saw your {context} and thought of Ribbit. It’s an AI trip planner that builds day-by-day itineraries, pulls bookings from email, and keeps group travel in one shared plan. If you’re planning a trip soon, I’d love to give you early access and see where it feels useful or annoying. Open to trying it?
Product Hunt timing
Launch on Tuesday at 12:01 AM Pacific Time. That gives you a full U.S. workday, catches early Product Hunt traffic in Europe, and fits a consumer product that people can try during lunch or after work when they’re actually thinking about upcoming trips.
Indie Hackers post ideas
- 01Why travel planning is a coordination problem, not an AI problem
- 02How we built booking import + itinerary generation for real trips
- 03What 25 early users taught us about family and group travel
Competitor alternatives
Current tone of voice
Friendly, playful, and consumer-first, with a confident utility angle; for example, "the free AI itinerary planner that actually plans."
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