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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.

Let the star send me ✦Dream My Trip instead