Product design question

Build a product for group travel.

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What this question tests

Product design for a specific travel use case with coordination and budgeting complexity across multiple people.

Clarify the target group: friends or family planning a trip together, needing to align on dates, budget, and itinerary.
Identify pain points: scattered planning across chat apps and spreadsheets, and disagreement on budget or activities.
Prioritize coordination over inspiration content, since the core friction is aligning a group, not finding ideas.
Propose a shared trip board with polls for dates and activities, and a running shared expense tracker.
Add a feature to split costs automatically and settle up at the end of the trip.
Define success as trips fully planned and booked through the app and reduction in planning related group chat volume.

Focuses on the coordination problem, the real friction in group travel, rather than another trip inspiration or booking app.
Proposes concrete mechanisms, polls and shared expense tracking, instead of vague 'collaboration features'.
Gives an illustrative number, e.g. assumes reducing planning time from 10 back and forth messages to 2 poll responses per decision.
Adds expense settlement, addressing the well known friction of splitting costs after a group trip.

Building another generic travel booking or inspiration app instead of solving the coordination problem.
Ignoring the expense splitting pain point, which is a major real world friction in group travel.
No metric tied to actual reduction in planning friction.

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