🚲 VeloPlanner helps you discover and plan cycling adventures - from after-work rides to multi-day tours! We focus on official cycling routes across Europe, North America, and Oceania, making it easy to find and plan your next cycling trip. Featuring detailed route guides, POI information (camping, hotels), and a custom trip planner in multiple languages. Making cycling adventures accessible to everyone! 🗺️ 🏕️
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Hi Travel Massive community! I'm excited to introduce VeloPlanner (veloplanner.com), a platform born from a simple mission: to make cycling adventures easier and inspire more people to choose cycling - whether for their holidays, weekend trips, or after-work adventures.
What makes VeloPlanner unique is our focus on official, signposted cycling routes like the Alpe Adria, EuroVelo network, and the Danube cycle path. We believe that by making these routes more discoverable and easier to plan, we can help transform more people into cycling enthusiasts. We're building a comprehensive platform that combines:
- A route viewer for exploring established cycling routes and nearby points of interest
- A custom trip planner that integrates with existing cycling infrastructure
- Detailed guides for popular routes
- Multilingual support (English, German, Polish, Spanish, and French)
Our data is powered by OpenStreetMap, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information for cyclists worldwide.
This isn't my first venture in cycling tech - my previous project, Velomapa, focused on Poland and reached 900,000 visitors with 60,000 app downloads in 2024. That success, combined with feedback from the cycling community, showed me the potential for a global platform that could make cycling more accessible to everyone, from weekend warriors to long-distance tourers.
We're currently bootstrapping and building VeloPlanner with a small team of passionate individuals who share our vision of getting more people on bikes. I'm looking to connect with:
- Travel industry professionals interested in cycling tourism
- Potential partners in the cycling and outdoor adventure space
- Advisors with experience scaling travel tech platforms
- Investors interested in sustainable tourism and outdoor recreation
Would love to chat if you're passionate about cycling, sustainable tourism, or travel tech!
Feel free to reach out.
This is exciting! I'm more of a runner than a cyclist, but I do love to cycle when I'm traveling. If I'm in the U.S. and going overseas, or vice-versa, does the platform help you find places to rent bikes in those places near the routes?
Right now, no but that's a great idea to show places where you can rent bikes. I'm pulling data from OpenStreetMap which I bet also have info about bike renatls.
Cool, how will you compete with the Komoot or Strava?
Strava is not really my competitor because they are rather focusing on athletes and I want to serve more leisure cyclists.
Initially, I want to focus on people how are going on cycle tours (with backpacks or bike panniers). That's why I'm showing official cycle routes on the basemap and helpful layers with campsites, shelters etc In the near future, I also want to show hotels.
So I want to compete by focusing on single niche and making helpful product for that particular niche.
This is amazing! I went on a bike trip a few days ago with my son and thought I'd test out the routing on your system to see how well I could do it. It worked perfectly! And it also straight away made clear to me where we could have taken some better, more scenic routes.
Definitely going to be using this for our next trip.
Some small points of feedback:
1. A search option to add locations would be nice. Having to zoom into my home and click it was a bit tedious.
2. The elevation data is great, but the way it's laid out at the bottom makes me feel like it's cropped off. The tooltip looks like it has more info.
3. I really, really like the road types break down. I'm keen to avoid main roads and stick to trails, so this is super helpful information. What I wanted to do though was to click on the road type so I could see which bits were that road type. I could see that hovering over them worked, but it didn't hide the other road types so when I hovered over the 0.6km main road type on my 100km trip, I couldn't actually see where it was. I think maybe on click, the other trip lines could be set to 0.2 opacity or something like that.
I'm really glad you find it useful.
Those are great suggestions ,thanks.
1. Search will be added soon for sure. Just need to find affordable provider.
2. Not sure what do you mean about that. Maybe there is some bug on some devices.
3. That's really great. I will add it for sure. Right now, you can click on the "eye" icon to see surfaces on the map but clicking on the particular surface type and highlighting it on the map sounds useful as well.
Thanks!
I dropped you a PM with my email address so I can send you a screenshot of the tightly cropped elevation data.
Totally understand the issue with reverse geocoding search. Not an easy problem to fix.