Captain, AI Travel Agent
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I’m a software designer from Lagos exploring conversational interfaces and frameworks for building agents. I made Captain to help with everyday travel planning. It can explore an itinerary, check live flight prices, or watch for the right time to book. Captain is a Telegram bot powered by a generalist model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-5), with specialist models handling workflows such as trip interpretation and voice transcription. It also includes a visual workspace where users can review the agent’s work and directly manipulate their travel information. I'm building the agent to explore how conversation, tools, durable workflows, and direct manipulation can come together in one coherent product.
HN · launched Aug 14, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: ai personal assistant software · 354 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Travel & hospitality
- Agent / copilot
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes Captain was a Telegram bot travel assistant wrapping third-party flight APIs (Duffel) and an LLM to parse natural language constraints into search queries and alert users on fare changes.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #597 of 655 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 287 days after the earliest competitor.
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