After about four months in private beta, social travel site TripSay is now open to all travelers. TripSay combines travel search with user-generated travel guides and ratings. When you enter a city or place, it comes up on a map, along with recommendations from other TripSay users that can be sorted by restaurants, hotels, bars, beaches, transportation, sights, and other categories. I described the service in my initial review:
TripSay combines social recommendations with a travel search engine that auto-suggests cities, pubs, hotels, and the like as you type them in. They appear as icons on a map, with a photo (pulled from Flickr) and description on the side, a tag cloud below, and minifeed of all the places you and your friends have rated or recommended. The detail page for each city shows other TripSay members who have visited, tips from members, the most interesting Flickr photos tagged with the name of the city, links elsewhere on the Web, and a list of the top-rated places shown on a map.
Since then, the site has added a few more features, including better editing tools, ways to collect and save your favorite tips, group message boards, and the ability to filter recommendations by groups. And, of course, it’s kept its signature rating system, which goes from smiley face to a full moon. TripSay competes with Dopplr, Driftr, and many other social travel sites, but it is worth a look.
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looks like a kids site with ui
Make room in the deadpool.
QA for the site is horrible!
– The homepage has weird characters (see “e-mail” in their homepage when you are signing up)
– When I tried to send feedback for the weird characters, I get this:
An error report has been mailed to our developers.
If you have any further information or questions, please leave feedback!
Message:
not-null property references a null or transient value: com.tripnetic.model.generated.MailNotification.originator
Not the best launch.
– Savan
ha! Java.
Don’t they have any regression testing tool like iMacros or Selenium?
contrary to my fellow commenters i really like the site’s design. i am just wondering if a goolgle map makes sense in every travel startup (however we have it as well ;))..
so you also might wanna check out ours http://www.tripwolf.com
all the best
lukas
Hmm it doesn’t seem like a new concept by any means but I guess it’s worth a look!
Hi guys,
We pushed quite hard to get some features for the public release and although we tested the site extensively, looks like we didn’t catch all the bugs :(. But thanks for noticing Savan! It is fixed now and hopefully nobody got hurt.
Leo
Welcome to the public, TripSay. I do like their graphics a lot and the map on the home page is elegant. So, you guys did a great job on the design.
I didn’t like how YowTRIP - http://www.yowtrip.com was left out of the “competitors” list this time… We’re more about connecting travelers than sharing tips/advices, anyway.
Welcome, we look forward to seeing new things from you guys.
Full moon? Haha!
Cheer, smile, nothing, sad and then bottom. Full moon… come on don’t be so naive. That smiley is a butt.
In the US, “to moon” = to show someone your butt
Congratulations to Leo and the guys for putting in the effort and believing in their concept to get this out. It’s true that sometimes, when you least want it, some bugs are left unsquashed. Happens to bigger companies too (hmm.. MobileMe…). The important thing is to react quickly, which you did. Wishing you the best and as Timo on Startupbin puts it, this is where the work really starts.
I also read on your blog you guys took 2 years to launch the site… It seems like a lot of time to me. Any reason for all that time? I was up and running with YowTRIP in four months (1 person only - working part-time).
As far as bugs, it’s totally acceptable… Anybody who has used any website/software… large or small should expect and be sensitive to a certain level of defects. It shouldn’t even be an issue. As Kristoffer said, as long as you react fast.
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I think the idea is excellent! It will be interesting to see what the response is from the public.
K
Looks fun!