Comments on: Ruba: An Online Travel Guide Where Photos Speak Louder Than Words

By: مركز تحميل

مركز تحميل — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:55:09 +0000

Wow. This looks like a blatant ripoff of nextstop.com….

By: منتديات

منتديات — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:43:09 +0000

Seems quite good

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:58:06 +0000

Good luck to them — but perhaps they (or their users) could stop spamming the Travelfish forum telling our readers to go read the Vietnam section on their site…

By: GOTO CHINA | Gabyu

GOTO CHINA | Gabyu — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:50:02 +0000

[...] Réalisé par des étudiants norvégiens en 2008. Si ces photos sont relativement ‘classiques’ pour tout visiteur ou touriste, leur mise en valeur révèle l’intérêt de créer des guides visuels plutot que textuels. Une initiative qui séduit Ruba, un guide fraîchement sorti qui lance ses guides visuels. [...]

By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:18:33 +0000

@Isabel. Yeah totally — it seems like a rip off of wayfaring.com, epictrip.com, and nextstop.com.

By: trip2

trip2 — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:44:13 +0000

Very good travel website, and nice pics too!

By: Steve - Money Online

Steve - Money Online — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:14:58 +0000

What a great concept as probably the biggest drawback of booking anywhere you haven’t been before is knowing what to expect.
Travel companies will always give you a slanted view of the location so real photos from real people is a great idea if it gets off the ground

By: Stefan Klumpp

Stefan Klumpp — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:10:12 +0000

My favorite travel website is still http://wikitravel.org
Maybe not as many pictures, but a lot of useful information and usually very up-to-date.

By: Robbie

Robbie — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:51:23 +0000

Nice work MIke! Jason, thanks for the thoughtful review.

By: Jason Jones

Jason Jones — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:01:41 +0000

Just checked out http://tripntal...om/search/Italy, I love that the site has so many beautiful pictures from Italy. Thanks for the tip

By: Darwin Widjaja

Darwin Widjaja — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:57:02 +0000

Ruba looks neat.

*shameless plug* I’m the creator of TripnTale (http://tripntale.com) and you can see more coherent pictures on a place like Italy: http://tripntal...om/search/Italy or http://tripntal...m/search/Turkey

By: Dave Panos

Dave Panos — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:50:48 +0000

Looks like Mike has another winner on his hands. Nobody plays the first two years of a start-up better than Cassidy. Super intense and wicked smart.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:06:36 +0000

A travel guide that uses images organised by lifestyle and category to help you navigate a city?

There’s an app for that:

http://bit.ly/ZL9ry

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:44:02 +0000

How do they plan on monetizing this site? I’m sure they could do ads and possibly a booking engine, but that would take a ton of traffic to make any money. I think that with so many travel planning sites entering the market in the last year or two a lot will end up in the deadpool!

By: technotopia

technotopia — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:13:59 +0000

Wow this is great news. these are the smartest people in the room http://iamned.com/blog/

By: Isabel

Isabel — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:00:24 +0000

Wow. This looks like a blatant ripoff of nextstop.com….

By: TypeForms

TypeForms — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:58:53 +0000

Finally a travel site that actually show you places, its some sort of preview of places you can go to.

By: TravelJournal.com

TravelJournal.com — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:48:21 +0000

TravelJournal.com to arrive shortly…

By: Ashish Kundra

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:31:06 +0000

Mike Cassidy is one of the sharpest guys you will meet.

Best of luck, guys.

By: RahulC

RahulC — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:17:56 +0000

Absolutely with travel sites its mostly the chicken egg situation – content is extremely important with first experience. If user wont find any relevant content on their first visit… its very unlikely they will come again if there are other options available.

By: VirginTech

VirginTech — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:28:20 +0000

Seems quite good , i will ckeck it out for sure! BTW thanks jason for sharing!