How we kept giving up on friend trips

We built Weno because we kept failing to plan a trip with friends.

The pattern was always the same. Someone screenshots a place from TikTok. Someone else sends a Booking link. Three people half-agree. The cheapest dates quietly expire. Someone bails. The trip dies in a WhatsApp thread that nobody opens again.

We tried again with the same people six months later. Same result.

What kept breaking

Looking at it after the fact, it's usually four things:

• The decision lives nowhere. Chat scrolls past. Nobody can remember which place we said yes to.
• Nobody owns the booking. Either one person fronts the whole cost and stresses about who pays them back, or nobody books and the dates die.
• The math is fuzzy. A spreadsheet, four versions of "I think I owe you?", and an argument about exchange rates.
• Good ideas don't survive the trip from inspiration to checkout. A reel that looked perfect on Tuesday is unbookable by Friday.

What we wanted instead

One app. The trip lives there from the first idea to the last reimbursement. The group can chat, vote, and book without leaving it. The cost is split as the booking happens, not three weeks later. And if you want to plan a trip alone, you can — same app, fewer screens.

That's what we're building.

We're a small team in Amsterdam. Weno is in pre-launch beta. If this sounds like a problem you also have, join the waitlist.