Essay · 4 min
Why we stopped letting people choose
On the tyranny of 40 open tabs.
By the Driftibo desk
27 Jun 2026 · faceless on purpose
Everyone we talked to wanted to travel more and planned less than they meant to. Not for lack of options — for too many. The trip dies in the research.
So we built a star that decides, and a promise that what it picks is real.
Tell it your limits. It sends you somewhere true — anchored to a real reference photo, no phantom places. You stop choosing. You just go.
It turns out the freedom people wanted was not more choice. It was permission to stop.