Family Trips was a very interesting app that we made. We started this app in early October 2025. We faced a common problem: we were planning a Christmas trip in December with a group of my parents’ friends. There were about 20 people, and everyone was using different apps to store their information. Some used WhatsApp, some used Telegram, some used iMessages, who knows what. It was hard to communicate because there was no single place for everything. If someone needed to announce something to everyone, they’d have to post the same message across three different apps. It was even harder to find important trip information.
We decided to create a web app, so we set out to make Family Trips. I’m not sure why we called it Family Trips, honestly. We started using Firebase and began building the app. We were laying the foundations and getting things in good shape. That was when xNicolo started. We bought the xNicolo.com domain, and that’s where everything began afterward.
In late November, we ran into a deployment issue. It slowed us down significantly, taking about five days to solve. It just wouldn’t deploy, and we fixed it after five days. We still don’t know exactly why we fixed it or what caused the problem, but it’s resolved now.
After that, things went smoothly. We finished it and tried to push it to the app store, but we didn’t have enough time. It didn’t work because it was a web wrapper and related constraints.
And now it’s due for refurbishment because it’s old and We might need to rebrand it to X trips instead of Family Trips. And We’re going to have to move it because Firebase Studio is sunsetting.
That’s how we made Family Trips.