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Well done and keep at it.

Here's my 2 cents. This is a very difficult market to crack. On one hand you have Pinterest which is littered with individual trip guides and most likely your early adopters to generate content. However, they are NOT the right consumers to spend money on this.

Figure out the right niche in this market, it's very sparse!

Source: I'm the creator of https://trrip.co

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Is there an app that suggest "Popular places near your route" while I'm planning a day? Or not just popular, but spots that've been mentioned in e.g. Lonely Planet, or some travel blog (sourcing the data would be a fascinating engineering exercise). It'd be great if the app recommends a spot, and when the user clicks "Squeeze it in", it would adjust the times accordingly. Or using your example of Tokyo, if I'm booked to see a Sumo match at 2 pm, and there's not enough time beforehand to squeeze it in, the app could even suggest an alternative time. (Hah this is turning to a travelling salesman problem...)

Yeah yeah, "popular" equals touristy, but just like Pumpkin Spice Latte in September, maybe I don't mind being a "basic tourist".

When Instagram's API was more open, someone did a heatmap of places that are tagged a lot in photos.