Discover your secret experience

Ever been on a trip and thought “I want to go to an event or a place that’s for me, a place where I get to just be me”?

Personalised discovery is broken. We live in the age of excess, with too many choices to paralyse us. I started addressing this problem while travelling often, multiple links open, researching for hours, trying to find tailor-made experiences and events that resonated with my personality.

There’s no shortage of things happening around you, concerts, workshops, hikes, pop-ups, underground gigs, but finding the right one for you is exhausting. Generic listings, algorithm-driven popularity feeds, platforms that show you what’s trending. Nothing that feels personal, local, or truly tuned to who you are.

Tryptic starts from a different premise: what if the app understood you first? It’s a hyperlocal experience discovery app built for Indian cities, one that gets to know you first. Geared towards people with an affinity for creative introspection, whether you’re an adventurer, a wellness seeker, or a music nerd who needs to know about the right underground event. No generic listings, no endless scrolling through things that aren’t for you. Just a deeply personal feed that feels like it was curated by someone who actually knows you.

The entire product is built around a single design decision: persona mapping before content delivery. Before you see a single event, Tryptic runs you through a short onboarding quiz. Not a preferences checklist, but a situational question set. What do you do on a free Saturday? When you land in a new city, what’s your first instinct?

Your answers, combined with the hashtags you pick that resonate with you, feed a weighted scoring algorithm that maps you to one of three cohorts.

The Active Wellness Seeker: yoga retreats, mindful hikes, nature cafés. Your feed finds calm before the crowd does.

The Creative Self-Discoverer: galleries, street art, open mics, community meetups. Your feed is a map of what most people walk past.

The Music Lover: underground gigs, live sessions, jam nights. Your feed knows what’s on before the posters go up.

This isn’t a filter. It’s a lens. Everything the app surfaces, the home feed, nearby experiences, search results, is generated through this persona, in real time, for your location.

The onboarding is a moment, not a form. Tryptic’s onboarding isn’t a setup screen, it’s the first experience. A short series of situational questions draws out who you actually are, and by the end, the app reveals your persona with a quiet sense of occasion. You’re not just signed in. You’ve been introduced to yourself.

The home screen is alive. Events are pulled from live APIs, matched to your persona and GPS-detected location, and surfaced as a curated feed. The For You carousel and Nearby Experiences tiles update based on where you are and who you are. The Change button lets you fluidly switch personas, acknowledging that people contain multitudes.

Search is a unified discovery journey. Type what you’re looking for, or don’t. Browse by genre, filter by date, or let suggested experiences guide you. The booking flow is built end-to-end: identify the experience, pick a date, decide who’s coming, and land on the real event page. No dead ends, no handoffs to Google.

Most apps make you work for it. You search, you scroll, you tab between apps to figure out dates and prices and whether it’s actually worth going. Tryptic collapses that into a single flow: you, your feed, your plan, your experience.

Designed and built as one cohesive project. Tryptic is a fully functional vibe-coded product. Designed in Figma and built in React + Vite with an Express proxy backend, using Replit and Claude Code. The design system was built from the ground up, every animation, every transition, every sheet and modal considered as part of the experience, not bolted on. Demo available on request.