Ualki.com
Ualki.com is an innovative tours marketplace revolutionizing how travelers explore cities and how local guides share their expertise. Our platform seamlessly connects adventurous tourists with passionate local tour guides, offering a dynamic new way to experience destinations.
For tour guides (especially those currently leading popular “free walking tours”), Ualki provides an intuitive app to create and monetize unique, self-guided tours. Showcase your local knowledge and reach a global audience, all while setting your own terms.
For tourists, Ualki offers an unparalleled level of freedom and affordability. Discover and purchase (or even get for free!) a diverse range of AI-powered mobile tours designed by locals. Follow engaging narratives, navigate hidden gems, and immerse yourself in the culture — all at your own pace, on your own schedule, directly from your smartphone. Ualki empowers you to explore independently, without the constraints of fixed schedules or large groups, offering a truly personalized and enriching travel experience
- Location :Barcelona, Spain
- Client :Me 🙂
- Project Type :Market Place + AI
- URLhttps://www.ualki.com
The Strategy
Every market place face the chicken-egg dilema (without users how will bring partners, and without partners, how we will create the content to bring users?) – So we decided to do the following:
- 1. Search Google Maps routes (tours) for free
- 2. Travel to main destinations and learn more about the places
- 3. Incorporate AI, first manually to enhance the content
- 4. Connect our platform to 3rd party tools
“I got early access and used the app in one of my trips. It works great! The UI can be improved and I would love to be able to connect with other people travelling. But for an initial version it looks very promising!”
Alvaro Molina -
Traveller
My approach
Before Covid, I tested the idea building a very simple prototype, where I added a list of 20 (most-visited) cities and links to Google Maps routes with details and analysed the traffic generated during 6 months.
Once we detected people were clicking the links (we can’t confirm if they actually followed the tours) we decided to start building the app.
We started building a PWA, but since there were some features we couldn’t get access, we decided to migrate it to a Flutter App.
Resieved goals
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Results
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