Indie dev cuts 5,672 lines rebuilding trip planner's Days screen into one-drag editing

SeanOliver · x · 2026-11-06

Indie developer Sean Oliver rebuilt his AI trip planner's Days screen: long-press a stop to reorder or drop it on another date, tap a time to slide it — moving a ferry before lunch went from 3 taps and 2 screens to one drag.
The redesign removed Plan mode and Arrange-on-map, deleting 5,672 lines of code while consolidating all date edits into one place.
In a follow-up he explains the tricky part: dragging ideas from a tray. The old version faded the tray but still occluded drop targets and added ideas on any release; the new tray docks to a strip above the tabs, and dropping back on the strip cancels.

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