The Travel App I Couldn't Find, So I Built It

I've always been that person staring out the plane window wondering about the towns below—what's their history, what do people do there, what's it like to live there? On road trips, I'd see signs for towns I'd never visit and wish I could just know something about them as I passed.

But I couldn't find anything that just told me about places as I passed them in real time.

So I built JollyTango. I spent the past eight months working on it full-time, and it launches October 30th on the App Store and Google Play Store. The hard part wasn't the audio or the GPS—it was orchestrating everything to work seamlessly across flights, cars, trains, cruises, and walking tours while being smart about battery life and context. It needed to know when to talk, when to be quiet, and how to adapt what it says based on your speed, location, and interests.

I've loved building this thing, and I'm hoping it clicks with people who are curious about the world around them.