Hi. My name is Nicole and I’m a type-A travel planner.
Each trip makes me 1% better at planning weekend getaways, hiking treks and multi-city expeditions.
While planning I would capture results from research and recommendations in notes, shared documents and saved lists in Google Maps.
The documentation was helpful for a few reasons:
- I found that fellow travelers would often ask me for recommendations from places I’ve travelled and I, in turn, would ask them the same.
- I liked to capture places ahead of my trip so that I could easily reference them when I wanted a cocktail bar or a restaurant. Vacations are about relaxing – not Googling!
- Plotting dots on a map ahead of time helped me plan my itinerary. If I knew I wanted to do a walking tour on a Thursday, I could plan to also visit a museum before it closes and stop for a quick cocktail afterwards before heading back to the hotel to change for dinner. Obviously it saves time by condensing a series of visits into one neighborhood as opposed to several neighborhoods in a day.
And then came the idea…
What if I didn’t have to use multiple tools to do this? What if an application could make discovering, sharing, tracking and saving locations simpler?
The Vision
Share My Spots enables world travelers to share and discover location-based experience recommendations with like-minded individuals.
This case study will follow the journey of this product’s viability.