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2015 · EU · Startups · Mobile · Consumer · Travel

Historik — a travel tours and packages proof-of-concept

A travel proof-of-concept pairing a consumer mobile app with a tour-operator backend — in-app ticket purchase, complete itineraries, and guide content for curated history-led tours.

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Historik — a travel tours and packages proof-of-concept

In one breath

  • Proof-of-concept travel app with in-app ticket purchase and complete itineraries
  • Paired a consumer mobile app with a tour-operator management backend
  • Shipped to validate the product hypothesis before a full-scale build
Proof-of-concept

Scope

iOS + Android

Platforms

Browse · Purchase · Itinerary

Core flows

01 · The challenge

What was broken, what was at stake

Historik's founders had a thesis — history-led curated tours with strong guide content could attract a specific traveller segment. They needed a working product to validate the idea before committing to full-scale development.

02 · The approach

How we thought about it

Scoped tightly as a PoC. Enough functionality to show the full user journey — browse, buy, travel with itinerary in hand — but no optimisation for scale, no multi-operator support. Clear path to extend if the PoC validated the thesis.

03 · What we built

The actual solution

Mobile app on iOS and Android paired with a lightweight tour-operator backend. In-app ticket purchase, complete digital itineraries, tour-guide content delivered per trip. Content management for Historik's curation team.

04 · The results

What shipped, what changed

Delivered the PoC on time. The founders now had a functional product to validate with real travellers rather than decks and mock-ups.

Timeline

Phase by phase.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    1 week

    PoC scope. Feature cut to protect the timeline.

  2. 02

    Design

    2 weeks

    Browse → buy → travel user journey. Itinerary format.

  3. 03

    Build

    5 weeks

    Parallel iOS, Android and backend. Weekly demos.

  4. 04

    Launch

    1 week

    Content seeding with Historik's team, store submission.

Stack

Tools and tech used.

iOSAndroidTour-operator CMSPayment integration

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