u/mmhway

Have you ever tried to meet someone from another city and wondered where the best place for both of you would actually be?

We ran into this problem ourselves. At first, we assumed the answer should simply be a city somewhere in the middle. But once we compared real travel options, it turned out that the most sensible meeting point was often somewhere completely different.

For example, Majorca might not look like the obvious choice on a map, but for two people starting in different cities, it can sometimes be faster and cheaper to reach than places that seem much more “central”.

We looked for a search engine where you enter two different starting points and it automatically finds a shared destination based on real travel time and cost, but we couldn’t find one that did exactly that.

Do you know this problem?

So two friends and I decided to build it ourselves for Europe.

The idea is simple: you enter two starting points, and the tool suggests the fairest places to meet. You can also decide how much travel time and price should matter in the result.

Would you use something like this?
Or is this too niche to be useful?

Feedback is very welcome.

The idea came from a problem we had ourselves: we wanted to meet a friend in another city and first assumed we should just choose a place somewhere in the middle.

But after comparing real travel options, we realized that the best meeting point was not the obvious in-between location. Majorca, for example, was completely elsewhere geographically, but for both of us it could be reached faster and cheaper by plane than many places that seemed logical on a map.

That became the core idea: the best place to meet is often not just the geographic middle, but the place with the best combination of travel time and cost for everyone involved.

MeetMeHalfway is meant to help friends, couples or groups in different cities find exactly that. Our algorithm compares possible destinations and suggests the fairest options based on travel time and cost.

Demo:

https://tribrains.eu/mmhw.html?lang=en

What’s your honest opinion: useful idea or something you probably wouldn’t use?

Feedback is very welcome.