WanderScout
Booking sites assume you know where to go. We don't.
We're Michael and Angelika, a couple with two young kids in Sweden, and we just put WanderScout (https://wanderscout.app) live after building it in our evenings for the past several months.
The problem we were trying to solve is the one nobody else seems to be working on directly. Every travel site you use, Booking.com, Skyscanner, Expedia, assumes you already know where you want to go. They're booking engines. The hard part for us has always been the part before that: figuring out where in the world is actually a good fit for a family of four, two weeks in August, beach we can let the kids in, under three thousand euros, somewhere we haven't been before.
So we built an AI travel search around one central question: Where to go in the first place.
Tell it what you actually want from a holiday, and it reads the whole travel web, blogs, local rental sites, tourism boards, airline pages, to surface destinations that match. We always link back to the original source. No middleman markup.
Tech stack: Lovable, React, Supabase, Anthropic Claude, Duffel for flights/hotels (airline-direct, no markup).
Pricing: 3 searches without an account, then 5 per week with a free account. €8.99/month or €69.99/year for unlimited searches, live flight and hotel prices, saved favorites and search history, plus a follow-up chat on results with our AI.
Would love feedback from this community. We've watched a lot of you build things in public and learned from it. Happy to answer anything about how we built it, what we got wrong, or where we go from here.
Michael & Angelika
5 Comments
This is a useful wedge because you’re not really competing with Booking or Skyscanner at the booking step. You’re competing with the messy “where should we even go?” phase before booking starts.
I’d make that distinction much sharper.
“AI travel search” sounds broad and easy to compare with every other AI trip planner. But “find family-friendly destinations before you know where to book” is much more specific and easier to remember.
The strongest audience may not be general travelers at first. It is probably parents who have constraints: school holidays, budget, flight length, safe beaches, kid-friendly stays, and places that do not require researching 40 tabs.
That also makes the pricing easier to judge. €8.99/month only makes sense if WanderScout feels like it saves a family from a high-friction, high-stakes decision, not just gives them another list of travel ideas.
The page should probably sell the emotional problem first: “We know our dates, budget, and kids. We just do not know where to go.”
Happy to put a tighter version in writing if useful. The main thing I’d map is the homepage positioning, first target segment, pricing angle, and the fastest way to get the first paying family users.
This is incredibly helpful feedback and captures something we've been thinking about, but haven't articulated clearly enough.
You're right that we're not really competing with Booking or most AI trip planners at the booking stage. The problem we're solving comes earlier: people know when they want to travel, how much they want to spend, and who they are traveling with. They just don't know where to go.
The framing of "find family-friendly destinations before you know where to book" resonates strongly. It positions WanderScout as a decision-making tool rather than another travel discovery platform.
The family segment is especially compelling because parents face the most constraints and the least time. Finding the right destination often means balancing school holidays, budget, flight times, weather, safety, accommodation, and kid-friendly activities, which today usually requires hours of research across multiple sites.
Your point on pricing is also spot on. People won't pay €8.99/month for more travel inspiration. They will pay if WanderScout helps them make a confident travel decision in minutes instead of spending hours researching options.
I also love the framing: "We know our dates, budget, and kids. We just don't know where to go." That captures the problem far better than "AI travel search."
We're currently refining our positioning and go-to-market strategy, so your suggestions around homepage messaging, the initial target segment, pricing, and acquiring the first paying family customers are exactly the areas we're focused on. We'd really appreciate any additional thoughts you have there.
That makes sense. If those are the exact areas you’re refining now, the useful next step is probably putting it into a tighter written structure instead of adding more scattered thoughts here.
The big thing is connecting the homepage promise, family segment, pricing logic, and first acquisition path into one clear test.
Drop your email and I’ll send over a more structured version. It’ll be easier to make useful in writing than turning this thread into a full teardown.
Hi Aryan, really appreciate the feedback. Feel free to send us your thoughts at hello(at)wanderscout(dot)app. Contact email is also on the website. IH doesn't allow links yet in the comments- likely our account is too new. Thanks for the engagement!
Just sent you a note.
Kept it focused on the first paying family segment, homepage promise, pricing angle, and how to avoid testing WanderScout with vague travel audiences.