Last updated: . This update adds selected current GoWhee membership and support details; the founder’s April 2020 launch and offer plans remain historical. Date information added October 28, 2026.
A historical founder feature, originally published February 7, 2020. Maud, Justin and their son Luc share the family travel experiences behind GoWhee. The original account below is preserved in their own words, including their plans for an April 2020 launch.
The family’s ages, early team, remote-work goals, proposed features, early-access invitation and 2020–2021 plans describe the time of this interview. The original screenshots, captions and promotional artwork are historical material, rather than a guide to the current interface or a promise that an old offer remains available.
GoWhee’s current official site describes a family travel service for discovering kid-friendly places, with parent reviews and an All Access membership. Check that site for current features, availability, prices and any trial terms before signing up. For an existing subscription, use GoWhee’s customer support guidance; the management steps depend on whether you subscribed through iOS, Android or the desktop service. The launch plans and free-trial invitation in the original interview below are preserved as historical statements.
Meet our fellow insta friends @GoWheeApp! They are putting together something super awesome and right up our alley. We applaud anything that makes family travel better!
Hello! We are Maud (mom), Justin (dad) and Luc (age 3.5). We are a family looking to make family travel even better!
It all started when we rented out our house, packed all of our belongings into a storage unit, and traveled full time for months in an RV all over Europe with our 3 year old son… Sound crazy? You bet!
Our trip was about bonding, working, and seeing new places. However, after a week into it we realized that organizing each day with our son Luc proved to be challenging. Finding playgrounds in foreign countries is not easy (sometimes they are not even on Google Maps) and everything including our much needed date night became difficult and stressful to set up.
GOWhee was born out of a need that we faced personally, but we also realized that this need was common to the majority of parents traveling or relocating somewhere new.
Gowhee is an app that allows parents to find kid-friendly locations anywhere in the world. Each location is added by other parents, so you know that it is kid tested and parent approved!
Gowhee app will be launching in April 2020 and the name came totally naturally for us: Our son was always yelling “wheeeee” when going down the slide. So when he wanted to go to the playground he used to ask us: “can we go whee?” Children are the best inspiration sometimes!!
Watch the originally linked 7Wayfinders film: Instagram Controls Our Day in Queenstown, New Zealand. This is a separate 7Wayfinders trip, rather than a GoWhee product demonstration.
The app idea came out from many challenges we faced while traveling abroad full time with our 3 year-old. We know first hand what it means to have a kid in tow while on the road.
In the spirit of helping the traveling families community, we are developing a company model that will be 100% remote! It is our goal to hire primarily, traveling parents, military spouses and digital nomads. As a CEO I would feel a bit hypocritical to force my staff to be behind a desk all day. We are promoting travel after all!!
More than just launching an app, we hope that we can help an entire community of parents to connect! Some great stuff are in the planning such as meet-ups facilitation, events etc. The launch is just the beginning.
We are launching officially before spring break in April 2020. We are hoping for both iOS and Android. After that launch we will develop some fun extra functions. They are kinda secret for now! But I can tell you that it will allow families to connect.
Watch the originally linked GoWhee promotional film about finding kid-friendly locations. It is retained here as part of the original feature.
The app launches in April but for a special few, we are opening it up as an early launch. So don’t forget to sign up for the early access and get a free trial.
IG Handle: @gowheeapp
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