What is Jaxbend

About JAXBEND

Every adventure starts with an investment. Whether the adventure is a trip to a favorite campground, travelling to another country, or even exploring the city you live in. You invest time, money, and energy in hopes of creating memories, lived experiences, or finding relaxation.

You save money to go on your adventures. You take time off of work. You pour hours into planning, organizing, scheduling, and packing.

We do this with a goal in our mind for the adventure – maybe it's seeing something awe inspiring, experiencing an adrenaline rush, reconnecting with friends and family, or just being spoiled. For each of us, the goal for an adventure may differ.

This is why JAXBEND was created. When planning, some of the most important information we can get is a first-person account of what to expect. JAXBEND aims to make that information available – we want you to feel confident that your adventure will meet the goals you have in mind and that your investment will be worthwhile.

When an adventure goes poorly, or is planned in a way that is counter to your personal goals, it can feel bad. You end up home at the end of it feeling like you need a vacation from your vacation. Exhausted and depleted, you half wish you hadn't invested what you did and the thought crosses your mind that it may have been better to just stay home.

We've been there – and we want to help you avoid it.

Confidence that your investment will be worthwhile is what we hope to foster. We want to help identify experiences that match your goals, provide you with first-person feedback about those experiences, and reduce the friction that can arise when planning an adventure with multiple people.

JAXBEND is here to help you enjoy your adventures your way.

Adventure is a Human Experience

JAXBEND is a platform that anyone can participate in. You don't need to be an influencer, professional photographer, or write like a novelist. Just be you, and tell others about your experience. Your experience and your voice are enough.

Always remember that you're not alone. For some people (like myself), the perfect adventure is getting away from everything and everyone. A quiet campsite deep in the woods with the people closest to me. For others, it may be Broadway in New York City – or a Comic con in San Diego. Others want to meet someone new, experience history, go skydiving, be awestruck, or maybe never even leave their resort.

We all adventure differently and a first-person account of the experience provides insight that is hard to find elsewhere. These accounts help to answer deeper questions like:

• What did each day actually look like?
• How was time spent and prioritized?
• What worked well, and what would be done differently?
• What difficulties did you encounter during the adventure?
• What did the adventure realistically cost?
• How did the experience feel as it unfolded?

Part of the agreement to be a Creator on JAXBEND is a commitment to not use AI generated content. To keep it simple, we actively strive to keep AI content off of the platform. Lived experience is critical to accurately capture an adventure – and AI cannot live the experience.

AI has not made it a few miles into a hike and realized that a sign-post is missing. It has not handled parking during a festival. It has not tasted the food, smelled a field of wildflowers, or met a stranger at the beach that showed you their favorite snorkeling location.

JAXBEND values your voice, your experience, and your story.

More Than a To-Do List

When it comes to an adventure – some of the best stories come from the most unexpected places. Looking up a travel destination online may give you some top places to go – Paris and the Eiffel Tower or New York and Times Square. These locations are amazing, but they are a single destination.

JAXBEND isn't designed to be a to-do list of major stops. We want our itineraries to give you the big picture. Experiencing Times Square is an adventure and is (technically) free, but how did travel work to get there? How did you handle meals? What else did you do with that day beyond the square? Were you hoping to do something else with the day, but ran out of time – or did you have more time than expected and wished you had planned something more?

Understanding the big picture shapes the decision making process. JAXBEND strives to be more than a destination to-do list, we want to be a collection of ideas and experiences that allow you to better handle your own planning process.

One major component of how much we enjoy a trip, is how prepared we are for the speedbumps. Anxiety and unrest can creep in quickly in the unknown – what if travel takes longer than anticipated, costs are higher than we expected, or the physical exertion leaves us exhausted.

Another component is the excitement of the unknown. We can get to a key destination and walk away with the true highlight and memory being from the random corner-store that we bought the best hotdog of our life from. An itinerary does not require every minute to be planned. Flexibility, autonomy, and random chance can create experiences that may otherwise be missed by overplanning or overscheduling an adventure.

Your Community Matters

Oftentimes, adventure occurs with others. Open collaboration is important to ensure a trip is successful and everyone is able to feel their personal goals and expectations are met.

JAXBEND wants to support this – there is no subscription needed to plan a trip, invite any number of your friends and family, and access any features you may need.

Each individual can contribute to the trip, add content and event ideas, provide photos and actively participate in the process. Flexibility in the planning process is designed to be a collaboration and we've done our best to remove any barriers to participate.

The only individual who can publish a trip, is the original creator – but that does not mean every trip has to be published. Some adventures are private – you don't want to fight traffic, or worry about getting your favorite campsite. Keep these to yourself and share them with your personal circle by inviting them to it. There is no obligation to publish.

JAXBEND strives to be a collaborative environment – not only in your trip planning process, but in the marketplace as well. JAXBEND doesn't advertise any 3rd parties or push any specific experiences. There is no option to pay to be higher in our search results and, unless requested, we return results in a random order. We believe that a community functions best when everyone's voice is heard, not just the one who speaks loudest (or has the biggest wallet).

A Mutually Beneficial Platform

JAXBEND was started as a passion project. An idea that a community willing to share their adventures, ideas, and experiences would be beneficial to everyone – and that it could be done in a way to foster a true community.

JAXBEND's revenue relies on the platform's marketplace. Creators receive the majority of each sale and JAXBEND takes the minority. No advertising revenue, shareholders, or investors. The only data that JAXBEND sells is the itinerary data you have chosen to publish to our marketplace.

To ensure the integrity of the platform, JAXBEND reviews every trip before it becomes available on the platform's marketplace. We reserve the right to reject publication requests if we feel it does not meet the standards in our Acceptable Use Policy.

JAXBEND may not be able to remove all of the uncertainty from your planning process – and the itineraries created by others likely won't be a simple "cut and paste" adventure. Instead, JAXBEND should inspire, help provide clarity, improve your planning confidence, and give insight that would otherwise be inaccessible. We hope to be a community for you to use as a resource so that every adventure you plan is a success.