I built a vacation optimizer then found out tools like this already exist - I shipped anyway
I created free tool longvacation.eu, first as something to try out new Copilot abilities. Later found out there are projects like holiday-optimizer.com that are solving similar issue, so I tried to differentiate.
- Longvacation supports adding your partner calendar (just one for now, but I plan to add multiple in the future)
- Longvacation contains multiple sources of holidays data - so countries like India (with regions) or Indonesia are included
- Shuffle mechanism - algorithm is non-deterministic so if you are not happy with the results, you can shuffle days around
- Rich calendar edits
- Monthly caps
- Never-vacation
- Locked vacation days (not touched by shuffle algorithm)
It's my first public project so I'm still learning how to promote it - currently I have around 3k visits monthly promoting it on X and LinkedIn
I recently open-sourced the code as well, so issues and bug reports are welcome :) https://github.com/Duzij/VacationOptimizer
u/NeedleWorker77 — 10 days ago