Planova
An AI-powered trip planning platform that generates personalized itineraries based on budget, duration, travelers, and preferences.
Timeline
2 months
Role
Full Stack Developer
Team
Solo
Status
CompletedTechnology Stack
Key Challenges
- Designing prompt-driven itinerary generation
- Balancing AI creativity with structured outputs
- Integrating multiple Google APIs
- Generating downloadable PDFs
- Handling dynamic user inputs reliably
Key Learnings
- Prompt engineering for structured AI outputs
- AI-assisted product workflows
- API orchestration
- User-centric product design
- Building AI-first applications
Planova: AI-Powered Trip Planner
Overview
Planova is an AI-powered travel planning platform that helps users create personalized travel itineraries in seconds. By combining structured user inputs with AI intelligence, Planova generates detailed, realistic, and budget-aware travel plans.
Instead of browsing multiple websites for hotels, attractions, and routes, users get a single, cohesive itinerary tailored to their needs.
What Users Can Do
- Create Trips: Enter destination, trip duration, number of travelers, and budget.
- Get AI-Generated Itineraries: Receive day-wise travel plans instantly.
- Budget Customization: Choose between low, medium, and high budget options.
- Hotel Recommendations: View suggested accommodations based on preferences.
- Discover Places: Explore attractions using Google Places and Photos.
- Download Itineraries: Export complete trip plans as a PDF.
- Customize Plans: Modify trips to better suit personal preferences.
Why I Built This
Planning a trip usually involves:
- Switching between multiple travel websites
- Manually comparing hotels, routes, and attractions
- Creating notes or documents to organize plans
I built Planova to compress this entire workflow into a single AI-driven experience, making travel planning faster, simpler, and more enjoyable.
This project helped me understand how AI can be used as a decision-support tool, not just a text generator.
Tech Stack
- JavaScript – Full-stack framework
- React – Interactive UI
- Tailwind CSS – Clean, accessible design
- Gemini API – AI itinerary generation
- Google Places API – Location discovery
- Google Photos API – Visual previews
- MongoDB – Data persistence
- PDF Generation – Downloadable itineraries
- Render – Deployment and hosting
Key Technical Highlights
- Prompt-engineered AI workflows for structured itineraries
- Dynamic form-driven user inputs
- Multi-API orchestration (AI + Google APIs)
- Server-side PDF generation
- Optimized UX for non-technical users
- Scalable and extensible architecture
After Launch & Impact
- Successfully completed and showcased at IdeaGEM 1.0
- Built a real-world AI product with immediate user value
- Strengthened understanding of AI APIs without ML training
- Improved product design and UX thinking
- Received positive feedback for simplicity and usefulness
Future Plans
- Add user accounts and saved trips
- Support multi-city itineraries
- Add collaborative trip planning