Navacation
Product case study
Made to help you plan trips easier, without the hassle of coordinating across 10,000 websites.
Join the waitlist See the thinkingThe problem
Where do you even start?
Most trips stall right here. The flights are booked, and the plan lives in ten browser tabs, a group chat and somebody's Notes app. Navacation turns "now what?" into a starting point.
Who it's for
Young, tech-forward travelers, especially the Type-A planner who likes structure in their trip.
You know the one: they make the spreadsheet, chase everyone for answers and carry the whole plan in their head. Navacation gives them the structure they want, and gives everyone else an easy, low-effort way to contribute.
Competitors
Wanderlog is the app people reach for first. Here is how it handles the same three moments, and where Navacation takes a different path.
A familiar launchpad: pick up where you left off, or start a new trip right away.
The home screen leans on upgrade prompts and a blank-page start. Navacation's home is simply your trips, and a new one can begin from somebody else's.
A big library of guides from other travelers, with likes and view counts, so you can borrow ideas.
The focus is browsing and borrowing single ideas. In Navacation the whole trip is the unit: replicate it with your own dates and edit it as your starting plan.
A rich day view: route optimization, walking times and place details, with flights and stays at the top.
It is dense, built for the person doing the planning. Navacation keeps one calm, time-ordered list and a separate place for friends' suggestions, so contributors never need to learn a planning tool.
Also on my radar: TripIt turns booking emails into a tidy timeline but doesn't help you decide what to do, and a group chat is free and flexible but buries ideas and has no timeline. Screenshots: Wanderlog app, shown for comparison.
My solution
The key insight
The best itinerary usually already exists. A friend just took it. So Navacation starts with a real trip, not a blank page.
Browse trips from friends or strangers, save them, and replicate one as your own. Pick new dates and change anything.
Invite friends by username or link. Their suggestions stay in the app until you assign them to a day.
Flights, trains, stays and activities in one time-ordered list, with the must-dos highlighted.
Navacation plans the trip; it doesn't sell it. That keeps it simple, free and trustworthy.
Group ideas don't clutter the itinerary. The organizer decides what becomes part of a day.
Planners get structure. Everyone else joins with a link and adds ideas in a few taps.
Anonymous analytics, no screen recording, and in-app account deletion.