Venture Concept No. 2: Tinder For Travel

For anyone new to my idea - I am currently building a travel app named Tripon. The simplest way to describe the app is 'Tinder For Travel'.

The opportunity I recognized was that it's extremely hard fulfilling your travel needs with things you want to do in the most efficient manner possible. I brainstormed and found that no one had tackled the challenge of matching travelers' interests to specific trips that locals create. There are other travel apps on the market that let you search trips or even create your own, however, you are spent aggregating information from several different sites, which takes forever.

My solution - Here I will lay out the steps that a new user would take with my app:1.) Sign in
2.) Select where you're going and when you'll be there
3.) Select a few things you know you want to do or see (optional)
4.) Fill out travel interests

Once you have done these 4 steps, you are then presented trips in a 'tinder' format where you can swipe left to dismiss the trip or right to like it. Once you've found the trip that fits you, press go and it will tell you the most efficient way to get around the city in order to get to your first stop.

From the previous Venture Concept, I learned that my app would be used by a large majority of millennials. From everyone I spoke to and got feed back from, they all said this would be a fun and unique way to be presented with things to do. I haven't changed my concept from when I started because I believe that this is needed and is designed in a way that will make it easy for anyone to use.

The app will be coming to the iOS App Store in the Fall and will be free for users. We will make money by charging businesses to advertise on our app. This is similar to how yelp makes money - businesses advertise by paying money to be put in front of potential paying customers.

The resources I currently have are the skills I possess and the skills of my cofounder, Kolby. The skills I possess are graphic design and business management. I am able to design all of the assets for the app, which is very time consuming. Kolby, is writing the code for the app and is excellent with user experience - he is able to make very challenging steps extremely easy.

Once we launch our app in the fall, we plan to bring on investors if possible and promote our app very well. We will also use any money given to hire on more developers and designers to take the app above and beyond our wildest imagination. We plan to change travel planning for the millennial generation.

In the next 3-5 years, I would still like to be working on this concept. I will take any money I've made from the company and invest it in other startups in the future. I hope to live a very good life and travel constantly, using my app all the time.