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PivtTravel finds the smartest route across trains, state buses, metro and local transit — scored by safety, comfort and door-to-door time. One search. Every option.
The idea came from a genuinely painful personal experience — trying to plan a long-distance train journey from Kanpur to Parli. What should have been a simple search turned into 2 hours across IRCTC, NTES, Google Maps, an MSRTC portal, and a Reddit thread just to figure out whether a connection at Jhansi was actually safe or a disaster waiting to happen.
The core problem isn't that the trains are bad — it's that the information is completely fragmented. No tool tells you the probability of missing a connection based on how that specific train actually performs historically. No tool shows you that getting off one station early and taking a 20-minute auto unlocks a faster express. No tool tells you where the AC lounge is at Nagpur Junction when you have a 2-hour wait.
So I started building PivtTravel — a journey optimizer that connects Indian Railways, state road transport (MSRTC, APSRTC, UPSRTC and more), metro networks, and local transit into a single ranked, risk-scored result.
The approach evolved a lot. I started thinking purely about train routing, but quickly realized the real gap was multimodal — the bus to a nearby station, the auto to the metro, the MSRTC connection that nobody surfaces. Adding a connection safety score (Safe / Tight / Risky) based on historical delay data was the moment it clicked as something genuinely different from what exists today.
Still early — launching the waitlist now to validate demand before building the full data pipeline. Would love feedback from anyone who's felt this pain. 🚆
India has 23 million daily rail passengers but zero tools that tell you whether your connection is actually safe — or whether a 20-minute bus to a nearby station unlocks a faster express train.
We built PivtTravel to fix that. But we want to hear from you:
If you've ever planned a complex train journey in India — what was the most frustrating part?
Was it not knowing if your connection buffer was enough? Finding out about a better route too late? Hunting for the AC lounge at midnight at Jhansi Junction?
Every answer helps us prioritize what to build next — connection scoring, station amenity maps, state bus integration, or something we haven't thought of yet.
Drop your worst Indian train planning horror story below 👇
About PivtTravel on Product Hunt
“Optimize travel easily.”
PivtTravel was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #93 on the daily leaderboard. PivtTravel finds the smartest route across trains, state buses, metro and local transit — scored by safety, comfort and door-to-door time. One search. Every option.
PivtTravel was featured in User Experience (366.6k followers), Travel (42.3k followers), Transportation (5.5k followers) and Vercel Day (20 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 46.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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