Eurotripr

In my 6th month and still nothing finished or useful live. I need to step back and pare down my desired features. I need to focus on how to inspire wannabe Eurotrippers and how to 'quickly' monetize as my runway is shrinking daily. Giving myself the rest of October to get a useful MVP live and get some traffic. Otherwise I will need to pivot to something new or find another 9-5 to replenish my runway 😳.

I am pivoting to a more useful and inspiring MVP to help people travel to Europe. I originally copied and pushed a watered-down, incomplete copy of NomadList. I need to be more unique and find a way to inspire wannabe Eurotrippers to plan and travel to Europe.

Launched a scaled down version of Eurotripr that is a single page ranking all the countries in Europe as best places to visit. Criteria include: Average daily cost, Weather, Fun, Safety, Crowd density, COVID restrictions, COVID cases. I curated this data from various government and stat sites and created custom calculations to provide objective overall scores to each country weighting different scores as more/less critical to whether a traveler would want to visit.

Instead of focusing primarily on allowing users to plan their trips to Europe (which remains a longer-term goal), for my MVP, I am going to focus on curating useful information about European travel destinations: itineraries, cost of travel, other traveler stories, travel tips, best resources for travelers. I want this to be a one-stop destination for all things European travel. Once / if it gains an audience and traction, I can focus on what other features to add later, rather than putting too much time into these features now and never getting a useful project out the door. In the end, my goal for Eurotripr is to help more people travel to Europe affordably, safely, and with confidence.