From quitting my job to 12,000+ trips being planned with my AI travel planner. Here's how I did it.
2.5 years ago, I quit my job with no backup plan. Today, I'm making a living from Tern, the AI travel planner I built in my bedroom. Here's the raw, unfiltered story of how it happened:
Numbers, Because Product Hunt Loves Data
12,000+ trips planned
Paying customers from 9 countries (started monetizing 2 months ago, still free for most users)
Users from 120 countries
5/5 stars on Product Hunt (and 1 of the 20 products hunted by CEO @rajiv_ayyangar )
$0 spent on marketing
14-hour days, 7 days/week in the beginning
400+ updates shipped
Tern - Streamline weeks of travel planning in seconds
Tern is your personalized AI travel planner
⚡️ Fast & easy (< 1 minute to get your personalized itinerary)
✏️ Editable
🤝 Collaborate with friends
🗺️ Visualize your trip on a map
✨ Integrated AI for further personalized assistance