Two people, one very long group chat.
Ampersand is made by Mila and Adrian, who plan every trip they take in it. This is why it exists, and what it holds itself to.
For years our trips lived across a notes app, forty screenshots, a maps list and one chat that started “what about this place?”. Every trip, the same scramble. So we built the planner we wanted.
One place where both of us drop ideas, the days sort themselves out, and it all still works when the phone says No Service. Every feature started as an argument on a trip, or before one. We still plan every trip of our own in it, which keeps us honest: if something’s annoying, we find out first.
Four things we won’t trade away.
- 01Together by default
A trip is a group project. Everyone coming can add, vote and see changes as they happen, and only the organiser ever pays.
- 02Offline first
The moment you need your plan most is the moment the signal drops. So the whole trip lives on your phone, maps included.
- 03Calm, not clever
It should feel like a good friend who’s been before: it suggests, it doesn’t nag, and it never hides the thing you’re looking for.
- 04Yours, not ours
No ads, no selling data, no tracking cookies. Your trips are yours to export or delete, whole, whenever you like.
- 30
- looks, each with a dark mode
- 86
- cities with a look of their own
- 2
- people who read every email
- 0
- trackers, ads or sold data
From a spreadsheet to a line.
- Stop 1A spreadsheet with ambitions
Tabs for days, a column for “booked?”, and a lot of pasted links. It worked until someone opened it on a phone.
- Stop 2Every day on its own line
Days became lines on a map, like a metro: stops in order, the walk between them, the hotel where they all meet.
- Stop 3It came with us
Offline copies, driver cards in the local script and a view of what’s next, because a plan you can’t open on the day isn’t one.
- Stop 4Shanghai, planned end to end
The first trip planned in it from the first screenshot to the last booking: nine days, 35 plans, two people still talking to each other.
- Next stopEveryone else
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