https://wendir.app/resources Honest writing about planning trips with other humans. The operating manual, destination deep-reads, AI reality checks, and founder dispatches. en-au Sat, 16 May 2026 16:27:59 GMT https://wendir.app/resources/mexico-city-no-spanish-group-trip https://wendir.app/resources/mexico-city-no-spanish-group-trip Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A real planning template for a 5-person group trip to Mexico City when nobody in the crew speaks Spanish. The neighbourhood pick, the booking strategy, the translation tools that actually work, and the day plans that survive the language barrier. Destination noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team) https://wendir.app/resources/sydney-long-weekend-hens-spreadsheet https://wendir.app/resources/sydney-long-weekend-hens-spreadsheet Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A real planning template for organising a 6-8 person hens weekend in Sydney without ending up as the maid-of-honour-PM. Day plans, accommodation, expense math, the booked anchors that survive contact with 8 different opinions. Destination noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team) https://wendir.app/resources/wendir-vs-splitwise https://wendir.app/resources/wendir-vs-splitwise Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Splitwise is the gold standard for splitting expenses between friends. Wendir splits expenses AND handles the rest of the trip. Here's the honest comparison — when Splitwise alone is right, when Wendir replaces it, and when both make sense. Comparison noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team) https://wendir.app/resources/wendir-vs-tripit https://wendir.app/resources/wendir-vs-tripit Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT An honest comparison of Wendir and TripIt. TripIt is the best email-to-itinerary tool for solo and business travel. Wendir is built for groups. Here's how to choose — and why most people end up needing both for a while. Comparison noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team) https://wendir.app/resources/wendir-vs-wanderlog https://wendir.app/resources/wendir-vs-wanderlog Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT An honest comparison of Wendir and Wanderlog for group trip planning. Where each one wins, what each one doesn't do, and how to choose based on what your crew actually needs. Comparison noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team) https://wendir.app/resources/80-percent-consensus-rule https://wendir.app/resources/80-percent-consensus-rule Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Most group trips run on "majority wins." That's the wrong rule. Here's the threshold that actually lands decisions without resentment — and the three things you have to define before any vote happens. Manual noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team) https://wendir.app/resources/ai-trip-planners-are-wrappers https://wendir.app/resources/ai-trip-planners-are-wrappers Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A wave of "AI trip planners" launched in the last 18 months. Most are a single LLM behind a chat UI. Here's the structural difference between a wrapper and a system, why it matters for trip planning specifically, and how to tell which kind you're using. AI noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team) https://wendir.app/resources/citations-vs-hallucinations-wendir-ai https://wendir.app/resources/citations-vs-hallucinations-wendir-ai Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every AI claim in Wendir ships with the agent's name, a citation link, and a confidence pill — HIGH, VERIFY, or LOW. Here's why we built it that way, what each level actually means, and how a user is supposed to act on the difference. AI noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team) https://wendir.app/resources/four-roles-every-group-trip-needs https://wendir.app/resources/four-roles-every-group-trip-needs Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Most group trips assume roles instead of naming them. Here are the four — decider, scout, local, treasurer — what each one actually does, and which one your group is currently failing to fill. Manual noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team) https://wendir.app/resources/group-trip-slack-whatsapp-discord https://wendir.app/resources/group-trip-slack-whatsapp-discord Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Almost every group trip starts in a group chat. Most stay there, even when it stops working. Here's an honest comparison of the four tools people actually use — and the bigger point: the chat isn't the problem, but using it as the workspace is. Manual noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team) https://wendir.app/resources/group-trip-without-becoming-unpaid-pm https://wendir.app/resources/group-trip-without-becoming-unpaid-pm Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The honest playbook: how to plan a 4–10 person trip without one person ending up running the whole thing, fronting the money, and chasing the votes. Manual noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team) https://wendir.app/resources/kyoto-3-days-4-people-planning-doc https://wendir.app/resources/kyoto-3-days-4-people-planning-doc Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Not a top-10 list. A composite planning document built from real Kyoto trips and beta tester runs — day sequencing, what gets voted off, illustrative expense math, and what we'd change next time. Useful as a template for your own Kyoto trip. Destination noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team) https://wendir.app/resources/split-travel-expenses-one-person-fronted https://wendir.app/resources/split-travel-expenses-one-person-fronted Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Someone always ends up putting it on their card — the Airbnb deposit, the rental car, the group dinner. Here's the honest math, the social contract you should set first, and the algorithm that turns twelve receipts into three transfers. Manual noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team) https://wendir.app/resources/tokyo-for-friends-different-food-tolerances https://wendir.app/resources/tokyo-for-friends-different-food-tolerances Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Planning Tokyo with a vegetarian, a coeliac, and someone with shellfish allergies — without anyone eating convenience-store onigiri for the fifth time in a row. The neighbourhood logic, the booking strategy, and the rules we set before flying. Destination noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team) https://wendir.app/resources/we-asked-chatgpt-gemini-claude-plan-trip https://wendir.app/resources/we-asked-chatgpt-gemini-claude-plan-trip Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Three frontier LLMs, one prompt: "plan a 3-day group trip to Kyoto for 4 friends with mixed budgets and dietary needs." The kinds of output each produces, what they all structurally fail at, and the architectural reason a single chatbot can't plan a group trip well — drawn from documented LLM behaviours and our own repeated testing while building Wendir. AI noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team) https://wendir.app/resources/why-ios-first-when-splitwise-android https://wendir.app/resources/why-ios-first-when-splitwise-android Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Splitwise grew on Android. So did Uber. So did WhatsApp. We're shipping Wendir on iOS first anyway. Here's the reasoning — pragmatic, not ideological — and the honest cost of the decision. Dispatch noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team) https://wendir.app/resources/why-we-are-building-wendir https://wendir.app/resources/why-we-are-building-wendir Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A short note on the trip that broke us, the moment we realised every group trip we'd ever taken ended the same way, and why we're building Wendir instead of just complaining about Splitwise. Dispatch noreply@wendir.app (The Wendir team)