Trail Craft
Draw a heart on a map. Watch it become a real trail.
The gap
Track Your Trail helps explorers keep long multi-stage trails organized in one place. Everything from planning to tracking, one place. But it assumed you already had a trail.
That was the gap. People could track a trail they found somewhere else. They couldn't create one from scratch inside the same world.
Trail Craft closes that loop.
Link: https://trailcraft.lovable.app/
Who it's for
Explorers. People who treat a map as a canvas rather than a lookup tool. The Strava crowd who draw routes in shapes just to see what they look like. Not serious athletes with GPS watches and training plans. People who want to wander with intention.
The work
The core mechanic is drawing. You go anywhere on the map and sketch a line or a shape — any shape, including a heart. Trail Craft takes that sketch and snaps it to real walking or cycling paths, matching your intended shape as closely as the actual road network allows.
Once you have a route, an AI assistant lets you search for things nearby — a castle, a lake, a place to stop. When you add a point, the trail adjusts to include it. The route stays yours, just with new stops worked in.
The product is split into ten equal stages automatically, so a long route becomes something you can actually plan around. Each stage can be exported as a GPX file for any GPS device or app.
How I built it
I used Lovable to build Trail Craft. Lovable is an AI-powered web app builder — I described what I wanted and iterated from there. The design decisions, the feature choices, and what made it into the product were mine. The implementation was AI-assisted throughout.
What I'm proudest of
The playfulness. Most route planning tools feel like spreadsheets. Trail Craft feels like sketching on a napkin. The moment you draw something on the map and watch it become a real path is the thing I kept coming back to during building. That feeling is the product.