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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup – itripd.com on Friday August 15, 2014 @11:03PM (#8185268)
Hi giarc, i always ad the thought to add in 'activities' or 'tags' later on. But, the more i think about it the more important it becomes to implement as soon as possible. The big question i need to answer is if they are predefined or user submitted (as you mentioned in your post). If it just activities then pre-defined would be ok (there are only so many activities you can do).But, if I want a user to be able to tag just about anything (for example a user went to a basketball game and wants to tag a place with 'miamivsdallas') then it must be user defined. Do you have any more thoughts on this?
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup – itripd.com on Thursday August 14, 2014 @12:01PM (#8178081)
A good point nirajd. We hope that travel bloggers who are fighting to generate more views for their trips will generally choose to upload interesting and attractive photos in order to stand out from their competitors. But of course being a site with 100% user generated content (travel bloggers or non travel bloggers) we expect to see a diverse range of quality.
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup – itripd.com on Thursday August 14, 2014 @11:06AM (#8177820)
Hi personlurking, well it's not really a huge problem right now because the site has hardly any content :) But, to answer your question the trips are generally ordered by popularity (views and likes). Thanks for the feedback
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup – itripd.com on Thursday August 14, 2014 @11:01AM (#8177799)
hi archagon, thanks for the feedback. it's nice to hear from people who would consider using itripd. Yes, at the moment we only support one pin style. But, the current pin system does cluster very well so you may find that the existing clustering system works well for your trips with many pins in close proximity to each other. I will experiment with some other pin designs in the meantime. There is no mobile app at the moment but the site functions well in the browser on tablets and phones. Thanks for the link to your trip :)
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup – itripd.com on Thursday August 14, 2014 @10:51AM (#8177765)
thanks Mister_Snuggles for pointing that one out. I have never seen what you described and will be sure to try to reproduce it asap.
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup – itripd.com on Thursday August 14, 2014 @10:49AM (#8177742)
hi yitchelle, the search feature needs to be improved. One big problem with search eature is that it can only be so useful to he user if there is not much content to display in the results. That is the reason i left if off the homepage to begin with. Once we have more content im sure a nice big search bar will find its way on to the homepage :)
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup – itripd.com on Thursday August 14, 2014 @10:46AM (#8177730)
thanks chrisseaton for pointing out that bug i will add it straight to the list... should be an easy one to fix
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup – itripd.com on Thursday August 14, 2014 @10:45AM (#8177720)
Thanks lukasm, I will be looking at improving the on-boarding of users very soon. I agree that an empty profile isn't the most enticing sight for a new user.

Ask HN: Review my startup – itripd.com

Hi HN, http://itripd.com is a travel startup where you can "share your travel adventures and discover others". Looking for any constructive (or destructive) criticism people may have to offer. Initial target audience is travel bloggers. itripd is intended to be used by travel bloggers in a similar way they already use facebook, pinterest and twitter (to show case their trips) and will act as...

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup - tripstamp.com on Saturday November 23, 2013 @09:12PM (#6788362)
thank you, we had actually recently discussed the idea putting more emphasis on the description of each place for those users who r looking for more of a journal. if we go down that road the user would probably want to include more information about each stop such as transportation mode, amount of time spent etc... useful comments mike which we will take on board :)
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup - tripstamp.com on Saturday November 23, 2013 @09:05PM (#6788343)
thank you, we will test further on that particular device
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup - tripstamp.com on Saturday November 23, 2013 @09:03PM (#6788340)
allowing the user the host the resulting content themselves is not something we had thought about. We have however discussed the possibility of allowing bloggers and the like to 'embed' a trip into their own web page. thanks for your input and we will think about how we can implement your idea.