Building a Travel Portal in 2026: Our Story, Our Stack and Why We Are Still Here

Hey Dev.to community 👋 We are the development team behind letsjourney.info - an independent travel deals and destination platform. We wanted to introduce ourselves and be honest about what building something like this actually looks like in 2026, because the reality is considerably messier than most startup introductions suggest. How It Started We launched as a fairly conventional affiliate portal. The idea was straightforward: aggregate travel deals from multiple provider APIs, build clean des