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Sailbow - make planning your next group trip a breeze

Assemble your crew. Chart a course. Set sail.

It is with great pride and excitement to present Sailbow: an application for planning and coordinating group trips. It started as a side project with myself and a couple buddies a few years ago and have enjoyed working on it in our free time outside our 9-to-5s.

Inspiration

Our team has always enjoyed traveling with our friends and family. Unfortunately, it’s a lot easier to dream of a vacation than to actually plan it. Coordinating details and schedules in a group chat can be a challenging roadblock which prevents many group trips from happening. That’s why our team created the application Sailbow which offers a simple and engaging space for trip planners to organize a travel itinerary and get everyone on board.

What it does

- Creating trips and viewing trip memberships
- Managing trip metadata such as the name & banner photo
- Rich text editor for tracking details and miscellaneous info
- Inviting other users to the trip "crew" via email
- Managing crew memberships and roles
- Creating announcements
- Building an itinerary
- View and manage real-time, in-app notifications
- Dark theme

How we built it

Stack: Convex, Next.js, shadcn, TailwindCSS, Clerk, Resend, Unsplash
Convex made it insanely easy for us to move at the speed of light without having to worry about things like complex state logic and end-to-end type safety.

What we learned

As a team, we learned how people are currently planning group trips and empathized with the common challenges they face. Additionally, Convex has introduced to us an entirely new paradigm of application development. Being real-time out of the box, we didn't even have to think about many of the usual challenges a classical architecture presents. We've learned how to leverage a tool that makes the right choices for our use case, as opposed to spending time and energy making those choices ourselves.

Devpost with demo coming soon