Tripvexa
AI-powered travel planning and booking with budget & visa
I've spent years travelling and working across a few countries, and I planned every one of those trips the same stupid way. Blogs written for search engines. Budget maths in my head. Visa rules on a government site that looks untouched since 2004. Then a booking platform that knew none of it and just wanted to sell me a room.
All the information existed. Nothing connected it. So I built Tripvexa, you describe the trip, it gives you a schedule you can actually follow, with the budget and visa check built in, and you book the hotels without leaving.
Incorporated January 2026. Live now. Bootstrapped, commission-based, so the product has no reason to push you toward the most expensive room.
Where I am now
Retention among people who complete a search is decent, which tells me the product is fine and the top of the funnel is the entire problem. Travel is the most contested keyword space in India and the incumbents have a decade of domain authority on me. That's the next quarter.
What I'd like from IH
Break it: https://www.tripvexa.com. Search a place you know better than any model does and tell me where it gets it wrong.
And if you've taken a consumer product to real distribution inside an existing funded category, I want the specific thing that worked, not the category of thing.
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Honestly, not conclusively yet, and I think that's my own sight rather than an absence of signal. I haven't been segmenting properly.
The pattern I think I'm seeing, people planning multi-city or multi-country trips convert noticeably better than single-destination ones. Makes sense. If you're booking three nights in Goa, you don't need a planner, you need a booking site. The value shows up when the trip has enough moving parts that sequencing it by hand is genuinely annoying. Same reason the visa and budget pieces matter more for that group.
The other segment I suspect, first-time international travellers, who have the most questions and the least confidence about what to actually do.
What I'm doing about it this month is instrumenting the funnel by trip shape (single vs multi-destination, domestic vs international, trip length) so I can stop guessing. If the multi-city hypothesis holds, that changes what I build and who I target next.