Our Ten Years: A Road Trip Planner Built for One Journey

Ten years ago, Arjun and Priya drove from Bengaluru up the Karnataka coast for their honeymoon, stopping at coffee estates in Chikmagalur, a waterfall temple at Sringeri, the towering Murudeshwar gopura, and finally Om Beach at Gokarna, arriving just as the sky turned orange. This October, Arjun wants to do it again, in the same order, with the same person, on roughly the same budget. What he does not want is a spreadsheet open on one tab and a notes file open on another, with the sunset time for Om Beach buried somewhere in neither.

Our Ten Years is a single-trip road trip planner built for this exact situation: a sentimental self-drive journey where the schedule is emotional and the budget is real. Open it and your full route is already there, every stop named and timed, with a live budget tracker that knows the difference between petrol, a homestay, and a thali. The app in the frame below is interactive, so go ahead and drag a stop, edit a number, or tick something off.

The problem with one trip planned in two places

Generic trip apps are built for people who plan many trips. They want accounts, itinerary exports, and collaboration features. What Arjun needed was a single screen that held the entire Bengaluru-to-Gokarna journey at once, where reordering a stop did not mean rebuilding a formula in a spreadsheet and then updating a separate notes file by hand.

The harder problem was the sunset. Om Beach is the emotional anchor of the whole trip, the moment Arjun is planning toward. But when a temple visit runs long or a mountain road takes longer than maps suggests, it is easy to quietly sacrifice the timing on the stop you most care about. Most apps have no concept of a stop that matters in a way the others do not. Our Ten Years flags sunset-critical stops and surfaces a reminder as the day unfolds, so the arrival that matters does not get quietly bumped.

A route that opens ready, not blank

The timeline you see on first open is not a template. It is their actual route: Bengaluru, Chikmagalur, Sringeri, Murudeshwar, Om Beach, Gokarna, with arrival times, short memory notes at each stop, and a per-stop budget already filled in. The app opens ready to use, not ready to be filled in. That is a deliberate choice: a planner that starts blank puts the work of remembering the plan back on the person who already has it in their head.

Try tapping a stop in the demo. You can edit the arrival time, adjust the petrol or homestay or food figure, or add a note. Reorder stops by dragging. The total at the top updates immediately. The design is meant to feel like a shared notebook rather than a project management tool, because that is what a Sunday-morning planning session with coffee actually feels like.

A budget split that means something

₹46,000 is a real constraint. It covers fuel for roughly 1,000 kilometres, five or six nights of homestays, and daily food for two, but only just. The difference between a splurge homestay at Murudeshwar and a simpler one at Chikmagalur is the kind of trade-off that lives in Arjun's head but needs to be visible somewhere before it becomes a surprise.

The budget panel breaks spend by category: petrol, stay, food. Each stop has its own three-way split, and the chart shows how the totals are distributing across the trip. Over budget shows in red immediately. This is not accounting software. It is just enough visibility to make the trade-offs conscious, so the decision to spend more on a special dinner in Gokarna is a choice, not a discovery on the drive home.

Offline, always, with no account required

Karnataka's coastal roads are beautiful and not always connected. The Ghats stretch between Chikmagalur and Sringeri has pockets of no signal, and that is exactly where you want to pull up the next arrival time or check whether the homestay is paid for. Our Ten Years stores everything on the device. There is no login, no cloud sync, no account to create. The plan is on the phone, and the phone works offline.

This also means the app does one thing: this trip. It will not accumulate past trips or suggest future destinations. It is a focused tool for a specific journey, and when the journey is done, it holds the record of it. Total spent, every stop ticked off, the note Arjun will have written at Om Beach while the sky was still orange.

Built from a one-line idea, in an afternoon

Arjun described what he needed once, in plain language, and Leanfinit built it. Not a stripped-down demo, but the actual app: the seeded route, the live budget chart, the sunset flag, the offline persistence. The whole thing came together before he finished his second coffee.

That is the point. The tools you need for a specific moment in your life are usually specific too. A spreadsheet is too general. A notes file is too unstructured. An app built for exactly your trip, with your stops and your budget, is just right.