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Farebones
What your trip will actually cost
Free AI travel budget calculator. Get honest daily cost breakdowns for any destination — Bangkok, Tokyo, Lisbon, Bali and 80+ more. Includes visa info, best months, and money-saving tips.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Apurv, a data analyst who travels whenever he can and spends too much time staring at spreadsheets.
The problem that started this:
Every time I planned a trip, I'd search "how much does Tokyo cost" and get a different answer on every blog, ranging from $40/day to $200/day with no context on what's included. Travel budget content is either vague, outdated, or subtly incentivised to make destinations look affordable so you click an affiliate booking link.
I wanted one honest tool that just told me the real number.
What Farebones does:
You enter a destination, travel style (backpacker through luxury), trip length and where you're from, and it gives you a full daily cost breakdown across 6 categories, a return flight estimate, visa requirements, the best months to visit, honest reality checks (the things people always underestimate), and money-saving tips specific to that destination. Everything converts into your home currency automatically.
No booking commissions. No affiliate incentives. The only goal is accuracy.
How it evolved:
It started as a simple cost estimator. Through building it I realised the most valuable thing wasn't the numbers, it was the context around them. The "reality checks" section (e.g. "most people underestimate food costs in Tokyo by 40%") turned out to be what people found most useful. So that became a core feature rather than an afterthought.
What's next:
Real-time flight prices when a good free API becomes available, and more destination coverage. For now it's 170+ cities worldwide and completely free.
Would genuinely love feedback: considering the loading speeds and especially if the numbers feel off for somewhere you've been. 🙏
About Farebones on Product Hunt
“What your trip will actually cost”
Farebones was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #107 on the daily leaderboard. Free AI travel budget calculator. Get honest daily cost breakdowns for any destination — Bangkok, Tokyo, Lisbon, Bali and 80+ more. Includes visa info, best months, and money-saving tips.
On the analytics side, Farebones competes within Productivity, Artificial Intelligence and Finance — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Farebones performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Farebones?
Farebones was hunted by Apurv Gedam. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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