DetourGolden-hour date night
1 Natural wine bar2 Rooftop tacos3 Pier walk at sunset
Pre-launch in Boston and NYC
Meant To Go.
Detour helps you turn everyday plans into memorable experiences. Discover date nights, food crawls, hidden gems, and weekend detours, then go together and keep the story after.
Sunday coffee crawl
Experience lifecycle
From “what should we do?” to “remember when?”
Find the spark 01
Browse everyday experiences for date nights, friend days, seasonal ideas, and local places worth leaving the house for.
Make the plan 02
Save an idea, remix the route, swap stops, and invite the people you want there without rebuilding it across five apps.
Keep the memory 03
After you go, add photos, notes, ratings, and the small details that make the experience worth remembering.
Why Detour
Your plans are scattered. Your experiences shouldn't be.
Discovery, planning, coordinating, navigating, documenting, and remembering all happen in different places today. Detour brings the whole journey into one shared home.
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DetourDiscover, plan, go, capture, remember.
Built around experiences
The itinerary is only the starting point. Detour keeps the people, stops, photos, notes, and memories together.
Less planning friction
A whole outing in one place: what to do, where to go next, who is coming, and what changed along the way.
Romanticize everyday life
Not just travel. Detour is for Friday nights, coffee crawls, bookstore afternoons, and the city you already live in.
Memories bring you back
Photos, reflections, and favorite moments turn each completed Detour into a shared archive you can revisit later.
Our mission
People are not looking for itineraries. They are looking for memorable moments. The itinerary is just how you get there.
We're building Detour to become the operating system for real-world experiences: the place a plan starts, happens, and becomes something you can come back to.
Meet the founders
The people building Detour.
Three friends from Northeastern building for the question every couple and friend group knows: what should we do this weekend?
Keith Yao
Co-founder & CEO
Leads product and vision at Detour. Previously a software engineering intern at Microsoft and Amazon.
Veda Ravi
Co-founder & CMO
Leads marketing and growth at Detour. Previously a product strategy intern at PwC and on the growth team at BlackRock.
Arav Goyal
Co-founder & CTO
Heads up engineering and builds the app. Previously a software engineering intern at Microsoft and Capital One.
Questions
Good to know
What is Detour?
Detour is an app for planning real-world experiences — date nights, food crawls, hidden gems, and weekend outings — then going together and keeping the memory after. Discovery, planning, and memories all live in one place.
When does Detour launch?
Detour is pre-launch. Join the waitlist and we'll email you once when early access opens — no spam.
Which cities does Detour support?
We're starting with Boston and New York City, then growing city by city based on where the waitlist demand is.
How much does Detour cost?
Joining the waitlist is free. Early explorers on the list get first access when Detour opens in their city.
Never ask what should we do tonight again.
We're starting with Boston and NYC, then growing city by city. Join the waitlist for early access to the first Detours.