I've been the trip planner of my group for as long as I can remember — the friend with 27 browser tabs open at 1 a.m. and a spreadsheet nobody else looked at. Every travel app I tried felt built for someone else: the big ones treat you like inventory, the AI ones treat you like a chat transcript. Nobody was building for the part I actually care about — the plan itself.
So I'm building RIKAR. One sentence in, a real plan out. Day-by-day, map on the right, weather-aware gear, hotel ideas grouped by tier, a calendar you can hand to your phone. No fake bookings, no invented prices, no award-availability theater. Every line on this page has to be true today, or we label it “coming.”
If you want a quiet, useful tool to plan trips with, I'd love to have you. Try Free, try Founder Pass, or write me at karan@rikar.ai if you have a destination I haven't planned well yet. Every email I get changes the next thing I build.
Karan Desai
Founder, RIKAR · September 2026