Yesterday evening, a Tamil Nadu travel creator, Karthikeyan (@karthik_travel_studio), shared this Instagram reel calling SearchSpot one of a few travel apps worth installing. We had never reached out to him, paid for a feature, or known the video was coming. He just liked the product enough to put it in front of his audience.
Within hours, signups jumped roughly 15 times above our usual pace and kept climbing into this morning, driven by real travelers across Tamil Nadu and Bengaluru on iOS and Android. Our India App Store rankings climbed overnight too, with itinerary review reaching #2 and group trip planner jumping into the top 25.
Even better was watching how fast people made it part of their own plans. Roughly three out of four new users started planning a real trip within minutes of opening the app.
We built SearchSpot to take the weight off whoever is carrying the trip, so seeing someone recommend it completely on their own, and watching hundreds of travelers immediately use it for their next journey, means more than any ad campaign ever could.
If you have a trip coming up, grab the SearchSpot app and try planning it there: searchspot.ai/get-app?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=searchspot-community
