Why This Project Exists
This is personal.
Living in the EU, we noticed something absurd: people leave vacation days on the table because they don’t realize a single day off, placed next to a public holiday and a weekend, can turn into a 5-day break. Multiply that across the year and you’re looking at weeks of potential leisure time — wasted.
We didn’t build BridgeDays for a client. We built it because the problem annoyed us enough to solve it.
The Belief Behind the Product
Time off isn’t a luxury — it’s essential. And the information needed to optimize it already exists (public holiday calendars, weekends, bridge day patterns). The only missing piece was a tool smart enough to connect the dots. We believe technology should give people more life, not less.
What We Built
- AI-powered optimization engine — analyses public holidays across 150+ countries and calculates the optimal vacation day placement for maximum consecutive time off
- Personalized recommendations — tell it how many vacation days you have and your preferred travel months; it returns the smartest plan in under 60 seconds
- Multi-country support — 150+ countries, each with accurate public holiday data, regional variations, and local naming
- Clean, accessible interface — designed to feel effortless. Three steps: set preferences, get plans, book your holiday
- SEO-first content strategy — optimized landing pages for country-specific vacation planning queries
The Result
BridgeDays has grown to over 50,000 active users across 150+ countries, optimizing over 2.1 million vacation days. It’s rated 4.9 stars, and it started with a frustration we felt personally.
This is the kind of project that reminds us why we do this: build things that give people more of what matters.
