Less planning. More going.
The numbers behind the group chat
76%
of group trips never make it out of the group chat
Source: Talker Research for Discover Puerto Rico, 2026 (2,000 U.S. women) โ83 msgs
plus ~19 hours over 11 days to plan the trips that do happen
Source: Talker Research, 2026 โ75%
say their group wouldn't travel at all without one designated planner
Source: Klook survey via Inquirer, 2026 โ#1
money challenge with friends is different budgets; 1 in 5 have ended a friendship over money
Source: Experian survey, 2025 โ51%
of holiday arguments stem from money, and half of travelers never talk budgets beforehand
Source: Starling Bank, 2024 โMore trips actually happen. That's it. We believe the best part of travel is being together, not the spreadsheet Olympics it takes to get there. So we handle the coordinating, keep everyone's private answers private, and make saying "yes" the easiest thing in the chat.
The difference
Most trip apps help after the decision. Land The Trip gets your group to the decision at all.
Private budgets, only the overlap shown
Everyone answers privately, and the group sees what works for all, never anyone's numbers.
Destination picks from everyone's answers
Matches come from the whole crew's dates, budgets and vibe, not one person's wishlist.
Shared dates + per-city flight estimates
The app finds the exact overlap and prices flights from each traveler's own city.
Group vote with an AI tie-breaker
A fair vote decides, and Tripp's Deadlock Breaker unties the knot when it's close.
Booking links pre-filled for the whole group
Stays and flights open as ready-to-search links sized for your crew. Search deep-links, not a booking engine.
Join and answer without an account
No sign-up to plan. Accounts are only there when you want your trips saved.
The problem
Group paralysis: nobody wants to name a budget, calendars never line up, and one burnt-out planner carries everything until the trip dies in the chat.
Who we serve first
Groups of 4โ15 travelers spread across cities, plus families and reunions. For every crew saying "we should really do a trip". The organizer starts the trip; every traveler can invite the next group.
How we spread
Every trip is a link dropped into a group chat. No sign-up means one organizer brings 5โ15 new people in a single share, with growth built into the product itself.
Why we win
We remove the three trip killers at once: private budgets end the awkward money talk, shared-date math ends the calendar ping-pong, and a fair vote (with Tripp's Deadlock Breaker) ends the stalemate.
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Private by design
Budgets and dealbreakers stay between you and Tripp. The group only ever sees the overlap, never anyone's numbers.
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Join without an account
Start, join and answer Tripp as a guest. See your first match free; sign in to unlock all three and reshuffle.
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The group decides
Suggestions come from everyone's real answers, and the final call is a fair vote, not the loudest voice in the chat.
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Built for every crew
Families, fellow travelers, reunions and team offsites. If you travel together, this is for you.
๐ Privacy at the database level
Budgets and dealbreakers can't be read by other travelers at all. Matching runs on the server and only returns group-level results.
๐งฎ A real consensus engine
Intersects everyone's date windows and blackout dates with the trip length, ranks AI-discovered worldwide destinations alongside a curated list against the groupโs planning limit, and estimates flights from each traveler's city.
๐ค AI with a safety net
Lovable AI discovers worldwide candidates and Tripp writes the 'why it fits' using group-level travel facts only. Budgets and raw dealbreakers never reach the AI. Validated picks stay stable for the group; curated matching and built-in explanations remain the fallback if AI is unavailable.
๐ Guest-first ownership
Private links and device tokens prove who organized and who's who, so voting, edits and admin controls work without anyone making an account.
Our story
Every group has that trip that's been "happening this year" for three years. The chat fills up with links nobody opens, date polls nobody finishes, and one person quietly doing all the work until they burn out and the whole thing fizzles.
Land The Trip exists to end that. One link privately collects everyone's dates, budget and vibe, finds the overlap, lets the group vote, and turns the winning pick into a real plan with flights, stays and check-ins. The trip finally makes it out of the group chat.
Anyone who's ever been the unofficial trip planner, and everyone who's ever meant to reply and forgot. Families coordinating across cities, travelers spread across time zones, reunions, bachelorettes, team retreats. If your group travels together, we built this for you.
I'm a senior product manager who loves to travel and is a people person through and through. Land The Trip started with my dear friends back home, a group of strangers I was lucky to meet in a Facebook group over our shared love of K-dramas. Those strangers became 14 of my closest, most cherished friends.
For two years we've joked that we'll go to Korea together. First it was Korea 2026. Then Korea 2028. You know how it goes. This app is dedicated to them and to every friendship that deserves to actually make the trip and live its best life.








๐ Favorite travel memories
- ๐ช Riding a camel through the Sahara in a rare rainstorm
- ๐๏ธ Hiking the Dolomites and staying in refugios
- ๐พ Exploring Japan with my husband
๐ Current Interests
- โ๏ธ Building Land The Trip
- ๐ต Big in my concert era, discovered BTS in March and have attended 3 concerts since. Army, see if you can find the Easter eggs in the app ๐
- ๐งถ Learning to crochet, happily still a beginner, one row at a time
- ๐โโ๏ธ A new runner. Running is how I de-stress, and Coach Bennett from the Nike Run Club gets me through it
๐ฌ Let's connect
Happy to chat about group travel, product, or your crew's never-happening trip.
linkedin.com/in/shruthishyamala โ