Group trips shouldn’t start with a group chat spiral.

The problem we’re solving

Most group trips don’t fail on the road. They fail in the planning phase. The average group chat generates dozens of messages before a destination is even agreed on. Whoever types fastest wins. Quiet preferences get buried. Decisions never actually close.

Group chats are conversational tools. They’re terrible decision tools. That mismatch is why “we should do a trip next year” has been sitting in your thread for three years.

How TripRelay works

TripRelay turns the planning phase into a structured, lightweight workflow:

1. Create a room with a destination and dates. Takes 30 seconds.
2. Share the link with your crew. No account is required to join.
3. Everyone swipes on candidate places using four-direction voting: super yes, yes, no, or opt out. Opt-out matters; it lets the group split on specific activities without anyone getting dragged along.
4. One tap generates a day-by-day itinerary from the vote results. The AI draft respects pacing, meals, and travel time.
5. Finalize the plan and share a cinematic teaser that gets the group excited before they even pack.

Who it’s for

TripRelay is built for:

• Bachelor and bachelorette trips
• Family vacations with multiple households
• Reunions and milestone birthday trips
• Friend groups that keep talking about the same trip
• Solo travelers who want an AI-assisted itinerary

If your planning process has ever ended in “whatever happened to that trip?”, TripRelay is the shape of tool you’re reaching for.

What we don’t do

Honesty matters here. TripRelay does not, today, do any of the following:

• Book flights, hotels, or experiences. Pair TripRelay with whatever you already use for that (Skyscanner, Airbnb, Google Flights, Viator).
• Split payments. Use Splitwise or Venmo for that.
• Send text reminders. Notifications today are limited to in-app and email.

We’re focused on the piece that always breaks — the decision-making — and letting the rest of your stack handle what it’s already good at.

How we make money

TripRelay is free to start. If we recommend a Viator tour and you book it, we may earn a small commission through the Viator partner program. That’s the current monetization model. It never changes your price and never influences which tours we recommend — the tour list is pulled from Viator’s catalog based on your destination.

We may introduce paid tiers later for features like advanced planning automation, team accounts, or integrations. When we do, the core group-voting flow will remain free.

Built on

TripRelay runs on Next.js and is deployed on Vercel. Real-time state is backed by Firebase / Firestore. AI itinerary generation uses OpenAI (GPT-5 mini) with a heuristic fallback if the model call fails. Place data comes from Google Places; tours come from Viator, a Tripadvisor company.

Get in touch

Feedback, bug reports, partnerships, or just saying hi: hello@triprelay.app. Real humans read every message.