Building TravelMate: Part 1 — Why I Built a Social Travel Platform (And Why My Last Project Failed)

This is Part 1 of a 4-part series documenting the build of TravelMate, my 3rd-year engineering project. Part 2 covers architecture and tech decisions, Part 3 dives into the hardest engineering problems I solved, and Part 4 (coming after the project ships) covers what I learned. The project that didn't make it Last year, in my 2nd year, I tried to...