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Viktor N

The Hidden Struggles Every Traveler Faces

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I’ve visited 42 countries so far 🌍—still chasing cultures, hidden gems, and stories worth remembering.
But every trip left me fighting the same frustrations 👇

Travel planning = chaos.

  • Too many tabs.

  • Endless blogs I forget after reading.

  • Logistics that kill the excitement.

  • Brochures no one wants to carry.

  • I wasn’t focusing on the joy of discovery.

What I wanted instead:

✨ Hidden gems locals know

📸 Perfect spots for memories

⚡ Quick adjustments without stress

💫 More experiencing, less researching

That frustration united a team of passionate travelers.

We’d worked together before—but this time we wanted to solve a problem that mattered deeply to us.

Millions of travelers face the same pain.

What started as a pain → grew into a vision → and is now becoming reality 🚀.A way to travel smarter, faster, better.

Cut the noise. Keep the memories.

That’s why we’re building GemsAround 💎.

👉 Discover authentic places through short videos

👉 Build itineraries in a few swipes

👉 Save time & find the gems only locals know

Travel should be about the stories you bring home— not the logistics that drain you.

We’re launching soon. If you’ve felt this pain too, follow along ✨

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Johanna

Totally relate to this, Viktor, travel planning can feel like a full-time job. Love the vision behind GemsAround. Short videos + local gems = exactly what’s missing in most travel apps. Can’t wait to try it!

Chris Surita

This sounds like something I could've used when swatting away the tourist traps that typically spawn camp the cruise ports, airports, and roads in almost every major city I've been in traveling!

Good luck and hope the focus stayed on authenticity, too often these start out finding hidden gems and then devolve into what local LLC can spend the most marketing dollars to get to the front of the line.

I feel like it's actually completely okay for a person, experience, or company to actually go under and never come up again. Maybe that nonna just decides she doesn't want to host in her kitchen, or that hotel in India changed hands.

Feels like a real hidden gem is ephemeral and sometimes found by someone and is no longer there, hoping this taps into that kind of "limited edition" energy.