Brad Bitler

I'm building the travel app that I wished existed. I used to plan trips with 50 browser tabs and Google Sheets or worse, trying to figure out what to prompt or even worse drowning all night in TripAdvisor reviews. So I 'm going all in on Takeoff. Start with trip vibes or a travel video you love, and it creates itineraries in seconds. Still early, but here's a peek:

@thomasehendrix Spring Break 2006 baby!

Defense-tech VC: “I didn’t see you at Hill and Valley this week…” Me: “I didn’t see you in Baghdad ever.”

for educational purposes only

Claude, when I bully it into violating its ethical code and "do it anyways":

@NWischoff Welcome to the wild west! We ended up moving to Marin and love it.

Moved to SF in Sept and have been house hunting for myself and office hunting on behalf of portcos. The average home I looked at in Q4 sold within 10 days and at or slightly above asking (100k). The same type/size of home listed in Q1 sells in 3 days, entirely all cash deals and some up to $1.7M over asking. Office space per sf in FiDi/Soma was barely $30 in Sept. Toured spaces today and the average was $79/sf with multiple offers up and down 2nd St. Doubt this is even close to the top. No better place to be for a builder right now but hold on tight.

@ashleymayer Ha! Hey, the brand story post really was engaging.

I’m new to substack, but does the post views chart always look like this? First time I saw it I was like, wow!! This essay is going hyperbolic. But then I check back and it’s always this shape 🤣

@tedhosmann Great work @tedhosmann!

Hello Video! You can update to iOS 26.4 now to watch your favorites, on Apple Podcasts. I've had the privilege of working side-by-side with many of you to collaborate, iterate, and get shows ready for distribution. To see for yourself go to apple.co/video-podcasts.

@batukrskl I enjoy using it at a component level, closing the loop between code, design, iterations, and back to code. It's also proved helpful converting the react native portions of my app to design primitives for the new in progress web version.

wait, what's the use case of this? designers, can anyone explain why do we need this?

@terenzeyuen Thank you!

@BradBitler Love the clean design!

Today we hit 1k trips planned on Takeoff. A cool milestone for something just starting.

@hthieblot agentic travel orchestration

pitch me your company in 3 word.

@liuyuxxd Great idea Yu, I'd love to export directly to claude!

Designers are skipping Figma and decks and going straight to code and live prototypes. But collecting feedback during reviews is still messy. You keep jumping between the demo and your notes and lose context every time. Built a small Chrome extension to fix this. Select any element or the full page, add a note, and keep going. When you're done, export a clean report with screenshots and notes side by side. GitHub link in comments. Coming to Chrome Web Store soon.

@mweinbach I honestly, just had to google what Aluminum OS was. 🥲

Out of curiosity, why does anyone think aluminum OS is a big deal? ChromeOS today supports Android apps but runs on Chromium as the OS What new capabilities will swapping to Android allow, given the main benefit of Android (apps) already run?

@aaronp613 I still catch myself saying OS X sometimes!

Apple released the first version of macOS (known as Mac OS X back then) 25 years ago today. It's crazy to see how far it's come! What do you hope to see in macOS 27 later this year?

@sonofalli hahah its wild out there

if you’re flying next week you better start getting to the airport now

Sad to hear about Chuck Norris! He came to Iraq during the height of the war to boost our morale. He had legendary status, some humvees even had stenciled paintings of his face on them!

Thank you for the opportunity and support. Vercel's world class DX and AI infra are exactly what Takeoff needed to build at the speed travel planning deserves. The future of how people explore the world starts with AI that truly understands the journey. Let's go! ✈️

@nikitabier 4 hours for an update for @Trytakeoff

iOS developers: How long is App Review taking for everyone these days? It is now taking longer to get our app approved than it is to build the actual features.

@askOkara Congrats! I'm looking forward to checking it out for @Trytakeoff

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@karrisaarinen @linear you forgot Takeoff.to

At this point, it feels like most teams building great products are on @linear (even if not mentioned here, they're probably on or currently trialing): Polymarket Perplexity Supabase Cash App Coinbase Substack Mercury Raycast Lovable OpenAI Cursor Vercel Replit Ramp Boom Brex Clay

@bykahlil @naturalpay incredible, congrats!

The new @naturalpay office is loading…

@garrytan Because we're locked TF in!

Great designers are suddenly an extremely limited resource