The best part of a trip is usually the stop you didn't plan for.

Detourd started with a familiar frustration: driving past something incredible and only finding out about it after the trip was over.

Mapping apps are extraordinary at getting you from point A to point B. What they're not built for is everything in between - the diner locals actually eat at, the trailhead five minutes off the highway, the overlook that isn't on any list, the small inn that's better than the chain hotel at the same price.

That information exists. It's scattered across a dozen different platforms - reviews on one site, trail data on another, booking availability somewhere else entirely. Nobody has stitched it together around the one thing that actually matters when you're driving: your route.

"We're not building another map. We're building the layer on top of the map you already use - the one that tells you what's actually worth stopping for."

Detourd pulls together restaurants, trails, national parks, lodging, scenic overlooks, and wellness stops - all ranked by real user ratings, all surfaced based on how far they are from your actual route. No guesswork, no fifteen open tabs, no missing the place that would have made the trip.

We're a small team building this because we wanted it to exist for our own trips. We hope it ends up doing the same for yours.