Free Trip Planning & Logging Site
Hi everyone! I'm a long time lover of canoe tripping in Algonquin and also a software engineer. I've been planning canoe trips in Algonquin for years and have always felt like we're missing a centralized hub for this. Reddit is awesome for the community aspect but I built this site to help route plan, trip log with notes on sites, portages, photos and more, in order to have updated conditions input from the community itself. (think all trails but specifically for Algonquin canoe tripping)
The site is 100% free and has no ads, I just built it as a labour of love for the park, the community and backcountry tripping (and to make my own life easier lol). It works best on desktop fyi. This is a solo project so there will definitely be some bugs in the beginning so feel free to leave some feedback on the site (report a bug tab), it goes straight to my email. I really hope this helps some people :)
EDIT: Wow, thanks for all the engagement! We've got one public log and I've received bug reports already, so cool! Based on the comments I'll definitely start cleaning up the code and hopefully open sourcing it within the next few weeks if there's continued use and demand. For the time being I've added a 'Trip Logs' tab to discover public logs more easily and I've added the ability to export public logs as pdfs so you can save logs locally. Hopefully that shows I'm serious about keeping it open and community-owned.
EDIT2: I appreciate everyone's feedback the past couple days! There's been a lot of feature requests, requests to open source the code, and suggestions which are super cool. All of that is a lot of work, which I'd very much be open to doing if there was a wide enough user base interested in using the site longer-term. I just don't want to put in all the refactor efforts for under 10 users (about where we're at right now). All I ask is that if you are interested in this please sign up for an account and /or post a trip log so I have some indication of demand for continuing the project. If the user base grows over the past week I'll continue to work on the project and maybe add an optional mailing list to the site you can sign up to for updates so we don't have to keep coming back to the reddit post. Otherwise I've purchased the domain for a year so it'll be up as is for at least then : ) Thanks!