Wanderist: A Contest Marketplace for the Travel Industry

Client

Lucas Rix

Industry

Travel

Location

USA

Core Technologies

Ruby on Rails JavaScript NGinx AngularJS AWS

Wanderist

Wanderist is a travel marketplace that reinvents travel services and helps travelers experience cities in a new way. At Wanderist, each traveler can set their own preferences, launch a contest, select among custom itineraries that are carefully planned by local experts, and choose the itinerary that best matches their interests.

Challenges

Lucas Rix, an avid globetrotter and creator of Wanderist, was looking for a partner that could help him personalize the travel experience and connect travelers with local experts.

He wanted to build a sustainable environment where travelers and local experts сould repeatedly interact with each other to create, purchase, and enjoy unique itineraries.

We needed to develop a tool that would effectively:

Satisfy expectations of the diverse target audience by delivering a unique experience to each traveler
Build trust between travelers and local experts
Provide a tour guide feature to guide travelers through their itineraries even when offline

Itinerary page represents the whole traveling experience from the day one

On Wanderist, the process of selecting preferences is interactive and time-saving

Users get geolocation-based updates in real time

Solutions

Our development team conducted comprehensive analysis and came up with a solution that brings maximum personalization to the travel experience.

We created an application that combines key features of classic and contest marketplaces and lets travelers get custom itineraries by launching contests.

We provided the following solutions:

Created UI/UX design that simplifies the user journey
Applied engineering best practices to build a fully functional marketplace from scratch
Developed a mobile app that guides travelers during their itinerary
Implemented multiple integrations (map services, social media, and a payment gateway) to provide users with real-time location-based information and enable payment processing and direct transactions for local experts

Technology Stack

Ruby on Rails
Puma
AngularJS
Nginx
PostgreSQL
AWS
Google Maps API
Google Places API
Stripe
JavaScript
more

Results

RubyGarage helped Lucas Rix create Wanderist, a fully fledged competitive marketplace that offers major functionality of both classic and contest marketplaces. Wanderist serves travelers with custom itineraries based on their interests.

The mobile app that we built has a tour guide feature that leads travelers during their journeys. The intuitive user interface and a wide range of integrations help users create and buy itineraries in an efficient and timely manner.