Turn a single Claude project into a travel planner with 20 years of experience, and sell custom itineraries at 1/10 what luxury agencies charge
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Shane Hummus's family hadn't all been together in six years, so they decided to do a big reunion: Thailand, one month, multiple cities, the whole family across generations. They went to a travel agency for the itinerary first, and the quote came back at $60,000 — he says he does fine financially, but spending sixty grand just to plan a trip isn't a vacation, it's a down payment on a house, and he wasn't paying it. So they dumped the whole thing into Claude — same itinerary framework, same dates, same group, same vibe — and asked it to build a one-month Thailand itinerary: best neighborhoods, best restaurants, hidden gems, broken down day by day. Claude came back better than the agency on a lot of dimensions: more personalized, more specific, sharper restaurant picks, better daily pacing. The one thing it couldn't do was call the hotels and book for them, so they spent a few hours booking it themselves and saved sixty thousand dollars. That trip is what made him realize what Claude is actually capable of, and it became the origin of this side hustle.
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Create free accountEmail code only. No password.Data credibility: In the video the creator uses Claude to avoid a travel agency's $60K quote and cites the corporate travel startup BizTrip AI as corroboration of the same model, but gives no real revenue from operating this side hustle himself, so it's logged as potential. All revenue figures are founder-reported or estimated by the video creator, unaudited.