Vibecode Roadtrippers
track this build5 steps, step by step0%A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Roadtrippers, map a user-planned road trip with manually entered stops and notes. The hard boundary is proprietary place database, route intelligence, rv data, maps, and mobile navigation, plus proprietary live data and network coverage.
You are building a lean indie version of Roadtrippers. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== README.md ===== # Roadtrippers indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Roadtrippers workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Map a user-planned road trip with manually entered stops, notes, and reservations, and keep an offline itinerary without claiming live proprietary availability. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - proprietary place database, route intelligence, RV data, maps, and mobile navigation - live fare and inventory data - global routing dataset - crowdsourced trail intelligence - booking, disruption support, and offline map fleet If those capabilities are essential, use Wanderer instead of pretending the gap is solved. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs". ===== BUILD_PLAN.md ===== # Build plan ## Original build brief Build a closest honest personal substitute for Roadtrippers in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, SQLite, MapLibre GL, and user-supplied map and travel APIs; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: map a user-planned road trip with manually entered stops, notes, and reservations, and keep an offline itinerary without claiming live proprietary availability. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create trips, days, places, reservations, notes, documents, packing items, and emergency contacts. Geocode only user-entered places and display them through MapLibre with cached trip-area tiles where allowed. Parse forwarded reservation text locally into editable fields without logging message content. Build a day timeline, route overview, conflict warnings, timezone display, and offline printable itinerary. Allow manual updates for delays and reservations and label all external data with source and timestamp. Export a complete trip bundle as JSON, calendar file, Markdown, and PDF. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Do not claim to reproduce proprietary data, network liquidity, regulated access, or frontier infrastructure. Deliberately leave out live flight, hotel, award, or ticket inventory. Deliberately leave out commercial turn-by-turn navigation and global offline maps. Deliberately leave out booking guarantees, disruption rebooking, and traveler support. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - modern browser - MapTiler or compatible map key - user-entered reservations - optional public transit or weather API ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden. ===== .env.example ===== # Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
You are building a lean indie version of Roadtrippers. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== README.md ===== # Roadtrippers indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Roadtrippers workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Map a user-planned road trip with manually entered stops, notes, and reservations, and keep an offline itinerary without claiming live proprietary availability. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - proprietary place database, route intelligence, RV data, maps, and mobile navigation - live fare and inventory data - global routing dataset - crowdsourced trail intelligence - booking, disruption support, and offline map fleet If those capabilities are essential, use Wanderer instead of pretending the gap is solved. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs". ===== BUILD_PLAN.md ===== # Build plan ## Original build brief Build a closest honest personal substitute for Roadtrippers in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, SQLite, MapLibre GL, and user-supplied map and travel APIs; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: map a user-planned road trip with manually entered stops, notes, and reservations, and keep an offline itinerary without claiming live proprietary availability. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create trips, days, places, reservations, notes, documents, packing items, and emergency contacts. Geocode only user-entered places and display them through MapLibre with cached trip-area tiles where allowed. Parse forwarded reservation text locally into editable fields without logging message content. Build a day timeline, route overview, conflict warnings, timezone display, and offline printable itinerary. Allow manual updates for delays and reservations and label all external data with source and timestamp. Export a complete trip bundle as JSON, calendar file, Markdown, and PDF. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Do not claim to reproduce proprietary data, network liquidity, regulated access, or frontier infrastructure. Deliberately leave out live flight, hotel, award, or ticket inventory. Deliberately leave out commercial turn-by-turn navigation and global offline maps. Deliberately leave out booking guarantees, disruption rebooking, and traveler support. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - modern browser - MapTiler or compatible map key - user-entered reservations - optional public transit or weather API ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden. ===== .env.example ===== # Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
You are building a production product version of Roadtrippers. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== PRODUCT.md ===== # Roadtrippers product brief ## Problem A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Roadtrippers, map a user-planned road trip with manually entered stops and notes. The hard boundary is proprietary place database, route intelligence, rv data, maps, and mobile navigation, plus proprietary live data and network coverage. ## Product outcome Map a user-planned road trip with manually entered stops, notes, and reservations, and keep an offline itinerary without claiming live proprietary availability. ## Target user A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo. ## Required capabilities - modern browser - MapTiler or compatible map key - user-entered reservations - optional public transit or weather API ## Explicit non-goals for v1 - proprietary place database, route intelligence, RV data, maps, and mobile navigation - live fare and inventory data - global routing dataset - crowdsourced trail intelligence - booking, disruption support, and offline map fleet ## Success criteria - The primary workflow is measurable end to end. - Setup is reproducible in a clean environment. - Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented. - Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees. ===== ARCHITECTURE.md ===== # Architecture ## Starting brief Build a closest honest personal substitute for Roadtrippers in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, SQLite, MapLibre GL, and user-supplied map and travel APIs; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: map a user-planned road trip with manually entered stops, notes, and reservations, and keep an offline itinerary without claiming live proprietary availability. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create trips, days, places, reservations, notes, documents, packing items, and emergency contacts. Geocode only user-entered places and display them through MapLibre with cached trip-area tiles where allowed. Parse forwarded reservation text locally into editable fields without logging message content. Build a day timeline, route overview, conflict warnings, timezone display, and offline printable itinerary. Allow manual updates for delays and reservations and label all external data with source and timestamp. Export a complete trip bundle as JSON, calendar file, Markdown, and PDF. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Do not claim to reproduce proprietary data, network liquidity, regulated access, or frontier infrastructure. Deliberately leave out live flight, hotel, award, or ticket inventory. Deliberately leave out commercial turn-by-turn navigation and global offline maps. Deliberately leave out booking guarantees, disruption rebooking, and traveler support. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Boundaries Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors. ## Production baseline - Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible. - Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives. - Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions. - Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts. - Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists. - Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test. ## Decision records For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code. - Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable. - Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present. - Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass. - Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests. - Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes. - Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data. - Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone. ===== MILESTONES.md ===== # Delivery milestones ## M0 — Decisions and scaffold - Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target. - Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks. ## M1 — Core workflow - Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests. - Keep integrations behind interfaces. ## M2 — Trust layer - Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards. - Test abuse cases and destructive operations. ## M3 — Operability - Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration. ## M4 — Release gate - Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise. - Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations. ===== OPERATIONS.md ===== # Operations ## Before release - Validate configuration and secrets at startup. - Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them. - Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership. - Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations. ## Incident checklist 1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data. 2. Record the timeline and affected scope. 3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials. 4. Restore from a verified source when needed. 5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test. ## Launch constraint Do not market omitted Roadtrippers capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.
# Roadtrippers indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Roadtrippers workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Map a user-planned road trip with manually entered stops, notes, and reservations, and keep an offline itinerary without claiming live proprietary availability. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - proprietary place database, route intelligence, RV data, maps, and mobile navigation - live fare and inventory data - global routing dataset - crowdsourced trail intelligence - booking, disruption support, and offline map fleet If those capabilities are essential, use Wanderer instead of pretending the gap is solved.
# Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs".
# Build plan ## Original build brief Build a closest honest personal substitute for Roadtrippers in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, SQLite, MapLibre GL, and user-supplied map and travel APIs; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: map a user-planned road trip with manually entered stops, notes, and reservations, and keep an offline itinerary without claiming live proprietary availability. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create trips, days, places, reservations, notes, documents, packing items, and emergency contacts. Geocode only user-entered places and display them through MapLibre with cached trip-area tiles where allowed. Parse forwarded reservation text locally into editable fields without logging message content. Build a day timeline, route overview, conflict warnings, timezone display, and offline printable itinerary. Allow manual updates for delays and reservations and label all external data with source and timestamp. Export a complete trip bundle as JSON, calendar file, Markdown, and PDF. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Do not claim to reproduce proprietary data, network liquidity, regulated access, or frontier infrastructure. Deliberately leave out live flight, hotel, award, or ticket inventory. Deliberately leave out commercial turn-by-turn navigation and global offline maps. Deliberately leave out booking guarantees, disruption rebooking, and traveler support. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - modern browser - MapTiler or compatible map key - user-entered reservations - optional public transit or weather API ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden.
# Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
# Roadtrippers product brief ## Problem A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Roadtrippers, map a user-planned road trip with manually entered stops and notes. The hard boundary is proprietary place database, route intelligence, rv data, maps, and mobile navigation, plus proprietary live data and network coverage. ## Product outcome Map a user-planned road trip with manually entered stops, notes, and reservations, and keep an offline itinerary without claiming live proprietary availability. ## Target user A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo. ## Required capabilities - modern browser - MapTiler or compatible map key - user-entered reservations - optional public transit or weather API ## Explicit non-goals for v1 - proprietary place database, route intelligence, RV data, maps, and mobile navigation - live fare and inventory data - global routing dataset - crowdsourced trail intelligence - booking, disruption support, and offline map fleet ## Success criteria - The primary workflow is measurable end to end. - Setup is reproducible in a clean environment. - Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented. - Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees.
# Architecture ## Starting brief Build a closest honest personal substitute for Roadtrippers in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, SQLite, MapLibre GL, and user-supplied map and travel APIs; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: map a user-planned road trip with manually entered stops, notes, and reservations, and keep an offline itinerary without claiming live proprietary availability. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create trips, days, places, reservations, notes, documents, packing items, and emergency contacts. Geocode only user-entered places and display them through MapLibre with cached trip-area tiles where allowed. Parse forwarded reservation text locally into editable fields without logging message content. Build a day timeline, route overview, conflict warnings, timezone display, and offline printable itinerary. Allow manual updates for delays and reservations and label all external data with source and timestamp. Export a complete trip bundle as JSON, calendar file, Markdown, and PDF. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Do not claim to reproduce proprietary data, network liquidity, regulated access, or frontier infrastructure. Deliberately leave out live flight, hotel, award, or ticket inventory. Deliberately leave out commercial turn-by-turn navigation and global offline maps. Deliberately leave out booking guarantees, disruption rebooking, and traveler support. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Boundaries Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors. ## Production baseline - Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible. - Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives. - Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions. - Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts. - Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists. - Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test. ## Decision records For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it.
# Agent instructions - Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code. - Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable. - Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present. - Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass. - Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests. - Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes. - Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data. - Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone.
# Delivery milestones ## M0 — Decisions and scaffold - Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target. - Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks. ## M1 — Core workflow - Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests. - Keep integrations behind interfaces. ## M2 — Trust layer - Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards. - Test abuse cases and destructive operations. ## M3 — Operability - Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration. ## M4 — Release gate - Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise. - Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations.
# Operations ## Before release - Validate configuration and secrets at startup. - Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them. - Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership. - Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations. ## Incident checklist 1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data. 2. Record the timeline and affected scope. 3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials. 4. Restore from a verified source when needed. 5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test. ## Launch constraint Do not market omitted Roadtrippers capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.
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People still pay for Roadtrippers because travel subscriptions sell current data and confidence during disruption, not just an itinerary list. The recurring cost buys map licensing, fare feeds, reservation access, route freshness, disruptions, geocoding, caching, offline data, and support, not just the visible interface.
xproprietary place database, route intelligence, RV data, maps, and mobile navigation
xlive fare and inventory data
xglobal routing dataset
xcrowdsourced trail intelligence
xbooking, disruption support, and offline map fleet
Don't feel like building it? These folks already made it free.
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Roadtrippers pricing
| plan | monthly | annual (per mo) | what you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| free | $0/user | $0/user | 1 saved trip; 3 stops per trip; access to 5 million+ points of interest |
| basic | $11.99/user | $3/user | 3 saved trips; 20 stops per trip |
| pro | $16.99/user | $4.17/user | 5 saved trips; 50 stops per trip |
| premium | $19.99/user | $5/user | Unlimited saved trips; 150 stops per trip |
free tierFree plan: 1 saved trip and 3 stops per trip.
billingmonthly + annual; annual plans can begin with a 7-day trial
hidden costsThe annual-plan trial temporarily unlocks Premium features even when the user selected Basic or Pro, so post-trial limits drop. Monthly plans charge immediately; previous trial users may also be charged immediately. Upgrades can be prorated.
verified 2026-08-14 · source ↗
Vibecode Roadtrippers
Not really. Roadtrippers's value is not the code: Recheck price before merge. See the honest breakdown above.
How much does Roadtrippers cost?
Roadtrippers costs about $3/month (Premium, checked 2026-07-31), which is $36 per year.
What do I lose by replacing Roadtrippers?
Honestly: proprietary place database, route intelligence, RV data, maps, and mobile navigation; live fare and inventory data; global routing dataset; crowdsourced trail intelligence; booking, disruption support, and offline map fleet. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.
Is there an open-source alternative to Roadtrippers?
Yes: TREK (A collaborative road-trip map with stops, notes and budgets; Docker is the toll booth.) AdventureLog (A shared road-trip map with stops and notes, minus the affiliate-link tourism.) The prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.