Junto - AI Itinerary

Junto makes group trip planning easy with one hub to organize plans, track costs and split payments; no chaos, just fun

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OUR STORY

Inspiration

The inspiration came from real life: Lately, Avril has been part of several outdoor trips with large groups of friends. Each time, the logistics fall to one or two “planners” who create a shared doc to organize the details, but most friends don’t look at the spreadsheet until the very last minute. Our team thought: What if planning could be fun, collaborative, and powered by AI?

What it does

Junto is an app that lets users create trips and add activities, meals and costs, all in one place.

How we built it

We started with a PRD, including personas, wireframes and sketches, and fed all of this into Bolt. However, that approach didn’t work well. Bolt struggled with too much context. We leaned heavily on ChatGPT and Claude to help us simplify our prompts and guide how we interacted with Bolt more effectively.

Challenges we ran into

  • The more context we gave to Bolt, the less effective it became.
  • GitHub/Bolt integration was clunky.
  • No matter how detailed our prompt was, Bolt struggled to generate decent images.
  • Bolt had no idea how to revert a change.
  • Every time we made updates to an image, Bolt would unexpectedly modify the entire layout.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • We all got the chance to vibe code!
  • We stayed positive and motivated, even after having to delete our Git repo.
  • We found ways to collaborate effectively, despite tool limitations.
  • We deployed our app!

What we learned

  • How to vibe code!
  • How to adapt quickly when tools don't work the way we expect.

What's next for AI Itinerary - Junto

We want to integrate Junto with other tools to make the prototype fully functional so we can test it with our friends on a real trip.

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