andrewjiang/palantir-for-family-trips
A Palantir-ish dashboard for family trip planning. - andrewjiang/palantir-for-family-trips
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Family Trip Command Center
A Palantir-ish dashboard for a very non-Palantir problem: getting a few families to Pine Mountain Lake and Yosemite without losing the plot.
Instead of a normal trip planner, this repo treats a long weekend like an operation: convoy routes, arrival windows, mission launches, meal logistics, family checklists, and a giant map that makes everything feel more serious than it needs to be.
What It Does
Tracks multiple families arriving from different cities. Simulates driving routes, convoy departures, and day-by-day timeline playback. Organizes the trip into itinerary, stay, meals, activities, expenses, and family views. Presents the whole thing as a dark, command-center-style dashboard because that is more fun than a spreadsheet.
Screens Mission launch overlay
Activity planning surface
Meal logistics surface
Why This Exists Because “three families are trying to get to the same cabin” is already a systems problem. The repo is intentionally overbuilt for a small real-life use case. That is the point. It is a fun UI experiment, a trip-planning toy, and a mildly absurd attempt to make a family weekend feel like a live operations room. Stack
React 19 Vite Google Maps JavaScript API Lucide icons Framer Motion
Running It Locally npm install cp .env.example .env npm run dev Open http://127.0.0.1:5173 or whatever Vite prints. Environment For the full map experience, add a browser Maps key to .env: VITE_GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY=your_browser_maps_key_here Optional: VITE_GOOGLE_MAP_ID=your_optional_google_map_id Without a key, the app still renders its UI but the live Google map layer will not fully initialize. Data / Privacy The trip data in this repo is intentionally sanitized for public sharing.
Family names are demo names. The basecamp address is generalized. Access instructions, Wi-Fi, host details, and other private trip notes are removed.
If you publish this with your own Google Maps key, usage is billed to your Google Cloud project. Repo Notes
State is stored locally in the browser. The project is optimized for desktop and large-screen dashboard vibes. The UI intentionally leans dense, dramatic, and slightly over-the-top.
If You Want To Hack On It Good places to start:
src/App.jsx for the main shell, timeline, and overlays src/CommandMap.jsx for route rendering, playback, and map behavior src/tripModel.js for the seeded trip document and helper logic
Status Built for fun. Surprisingly usable. Not pretending to be enterprise software.