TripLog

TripLog is a product concept built around a simple behavior: people do not plan trips in the order travel products ask them to. They collect screenshots, links, videos, notes, and half-decisions first — structure comes later.

The product bet is to meet that behavior instead of fighting it. Send TripLog anything — a photo, a video, a note, a link — and it turns the messy input into places, preferences, and planning context. From there, the user shapes the trip in conversation instead of starting with a blank form.

#The product insight

The insight was that the planning product should absorb the user's existing behavior, not demand a cleaner one. Capture can be loose; structure can happen in the product. That shifts the work from the user to the system, which is where AI becomes useful rather than decorative.

TripLog was built as a school project, but I treated the constraint as a product strategy exercise: define the behavior to serve, pick the narrowest AI job, and avoid turning a travel planner into another itinerary form.