I built an AI travel planner that starts with your budget, not a destination
Hey everyone,
I’m building spontaneous.travel, an AI travel planner with a slightly different starting point.
Most trip planners ask: “Where do you want to go?”
This one asks: “What’s your budget, where are you flying from, and when can you travel?”
It then estimates which destinations fit, including flight cost, hotel cost, and remaining daily spending money. The goal is to help with the earlier decision: not just planning Paris, but comparing whether Paris, Porto, Athens, or Sofia makes more sense for your actual budget.
Recently I added:
- AI trip planner with day-by-day itinerary generation
- clearer estimated vs checked pricing labels
- live/cache-backed hotel and flight pricing improvements
- trip comparison for up to 3 destinations
- strict vs flexible date comparison
- better handling for wrong city/airport matching
Still rough: daily spend estimates are approximate, and I’m still improving hotel/activity price accuracy.
I’d love feedback from people who use AI travel tools:
Does budget-first planning feel useful, or do you usually already know the destination before using a planner?