TrailKeep self-hosted trips

A friendly Amap-trajectory replacement: auto-record, review by day, export and share

Problem

After Amap shut down its trajectory-recording service, people who liked reviewing their own trips found the remaining options either sports-oriented or developer-oriented; self-hosted tools like Dawarich are clunkier for browsing historical routes than the old Amap experience, leaving ordinary users stranded.

Solution

A location-recording app that captures tracks in the background with low battery impact, aggregates them into a browsable day/week trip timeline with map playback, frequent-place labels, GPX export and shareable images. Data stays local or in the user's own cloud storage.

Users

Commuters, business travelers and road-trippers who review where they've been; privacy-minded self-hosters

MVP

Background location capture; daily timeline playback; automatic frequent-place tagging; GPX and image export; encrypted local storage

Revenue

Free basic recording, subscription for cloud backup, multi-device sync and advanced exports; partnerships with dashcam and outdoor content creators

Why now

When a big platform kills a service it orphans a user base, and trajectory recording is mature tech a solo dev can ship a better experience for in weeks