Tern is your personalized AI travel planner ⚡️ Fast and easy (< 1 minute to get your personalized itinerary) ✏️ Editable 🤝 Collaborate with friends 🗺️ Visualize your trip on a map ✨ Integrated AI for further personalized assistance 👉 Give it a try: tern.app

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

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

Phew, solved so many of the issues I have as an expat living in the US

have been looking for something like this! with a map and everything. very fun and powerful app!

Great to hear this Chloe! Thank you for the review!

I really love Tern App. I can use Tern for all my travel plans.

Happy to be able to assist! Thank you Kaushik!

Phew, solved so many of the issues I have as an expat living in the US

have been looking for something like this! with a map and everything. very fun and powerful app!

Great to hear this Chloe! Thank you for the review!

I really love Tern App. I can use Tern for all my travel plans.

Happy to be able to assist! Thank you Kaushik!

Instantly check where your passport can take you. ✅ Get visa requirements - See if you can enter a country, with visa type, cost, docs and advisories. 🌍 See where you can go - Discover ranked destinations based on popularity, safety and visa accessibility.

Hey PH! 👋

I’m Tavishi, founder of Tern - and we're back with something we think every traveler needs: instant visa clarity.

Whether you're dreaming of a destination or already picked one, Tern now tells you if your passport and visas can get you in, plus what type of visa you need, how much it costs, what documents are required, and links to official advisories.

But we didn’t stop there.

By popular demand, you can now also see where you can go, with destinations ranked by our relevance score (safety, popularity and accessibility). No more googling or tab-hopping just to find your next trip.

This was a deeply personal pain point during my 3 years of slow travel. Even as a seasoned traveler, I constantly found myself asking, “Can I even go there?” - especially with an Indian passport, which is highly restrictive. We built this to remove that friction for everyone.

We’re a small, female-founded team building lean and fast - and this is just the beginning of the travel intelligence layer we’re rolling out across Tern’s growing tooling ecosystem.

🔗 Try it here: visa.travelwithtern.com
🐦 DM me anytime: itstavishi
💛 If you find it helpful, we’d love your support with an upvote, feedback, or share.

While Tern's visa tool is free, the cohesive AI travel planner is now a paid product. To celebrate our Product Hunt launch, we’re offering 50% off the Unlimited Plan for a limited time - exclusively for early adopters. Grab it while it lasts!!

Thank you for being part of our story - let’s make travel smarter, together.

Cheers,
Tavishi

Hey Fam! 🙋🏻‍♂️ I’m Chandrahaas, and I am absolutely thrilled to be part of this launch with Tern. A huge thank you to @tavishigupta for making this collaboration a reality. Reaching out to Tern with an idea and getting the chance to work alongside Tavishi has truly been a dream come true. This feature is born from my own story. My passion for travel has taken me to 11 countries, a journey I navigated with an Indian passport. For every trip, the first and biggest hurdle was the visa. I spent countless hours on my own, digging through confusing embassy websites and piecing together advice from the blessed communities on Reddit and Twitter. There was no single source of truth, just a constant sense of uncertainty. This personal struggle sparked a question: what if we could help people see the world through the lens of the visas they already have? That’s why we designed this application as an extension of Tern. It’s for the group of newbie traveler’s who, like me, feel overwhelmed. It’s built to show you that with your existing visas—be it a US, Schengen, or UK visa—a whole new map of countries might already be open to you, visa-free. Our goal is to help you understand that you can explore on your own, and that travel is every bit as adventurous and accessible as you imagine. This vision gets to the very heart of Tern's mission: to empower every traveler by making the world feel less complex and infinitely more accessible Taking this idea from an idea to a large-scale application would have been impossible without Tavishi. She supported this vision at every turn, helping me shape it into something that could genuinely help people. We believe that integrating this capability into Tern’s powerful planning suite is a game-changer. Now, not only can you plan your itinerary seamlessly with Tern, but you can also discover entirely new destinations you never knew were within your reach. I am incredibly proud of what we have built together and can’t wait for you to experience this new way of discovering the world. We're not just helping you plan a trip; we're hoping to expand your horizons. Thank you for being part of this journey. Your support means everything. Cheers, Chandrahaas.

@chandrahaas_vellanki Thank you for bringing this up to me! Its an incredibly useful tool in our AI travel toolkit! I've used this myself a lot recently ☺️

I really love this app

@parvathi_gannamraju Thank you so much Parvathi!! Appreciate the kind words!

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