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For my solo food pilgrimage to the Basque Country, I pre-arranged flights in&#x2F;out of Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum tickets, Michelin Guide restaurant reservations, bus tickets to San Sebastian and Saint-Jean-de-Luz, walking food tours and hotel reservations in each city, and a long list of pintxo spots to hit with notes on each one&#x27;s food specialty.<p>Most of this was poorly organized (manually) in my phone&#x27;s Notes app, with references to specific emails for more information.<p>I arrived on the first day in Bilbao, and the hotel didn&#x27;t have me in their system by name, so I spent a good 10 minutes frantically scouring my emails for the confirmation number, cursing myself for holding up the people behind me.<p>Over the course of the next few days, while I was relaxing at my hotel (after finally getting in) in between pre-planned stops, I started building a personal tool that would organize all of my bookings automatically and keep all relevant information at my fingertips.<p>Thus, Petrel was born and named after one of my favorite birds.<p>It started as a personal pet project but I shared it with some friends that were looking for something just like it so I ended up turning it into an app and website for all to benefit. It&#x27;s completely free to try without even signing up.<p>On my next group trip, I built out logical collaboration features to allow groups to vote, split expenses, share notes, and add pictures all within the same ecosystem.<p>I&#x27;ve slowly improved the parsing and itinerary logic and built in convenient features such as weather, estimated travel times, an encryption-protected area to store copies of personal information, and a comprehensive travel log with fun stats. I also made it so that the parsing tool can accept almost any file type. However, the tool doesn&#x27;t do anything to assist on the planning side and doesn&#x27;t provide true flight alert pushes, despite having live flight status syncing.<p>I would love for more people to test it out, challenge the parser, and let me know their thoughts and experience.

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/14 05:47:09