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OpenCoffee 6/16 at Andala in Cambridge, MA

6 points by sanj 16y ago

My team's first big release here at TripAdvisor just went live! I was going to be heading to OpenCoffee tmw, partly to blow off some steam, partly because I'm solo w/ the baby and partly to talk to folks that might be interested in joining us to build the next big thing. I'm happy to buy breakfast for anyone that shows up that, at a minimum, can explain what we built. Or why its cool. I'm aiming to be there at 9am: www.andalacafe.com

sanj 16y ago
I'm going to Andala. What should I order?
sanj 16y ago
My team's pointed out that I didn't actually say what we built. TripAdvisor runs the Cities I've Visited Facebook app: http://apps.facebook.com/tripadvisortravelmap http://apps.facebook.com/tripadvisortravelmap Over the last 3 years, we've collected over a billion "pins" worth of data across millions of users. Our MAU is about 5m. We've added Facebook Connect to our site and now have a box on each geo-specific page on our site which shows you which of your friends know about that location, based on their data in our pin database. What this means is that we find the short list of friends that can actually help and influence your travel decisions. The tools also pulls together responses from email & wall posts so that they don't disappear into the Facebook limbo. The part that I think is awesome is that we got to build something truly valuable and useful based on data gathered from a compelling and popular Facebook app. See it yourself: http://www.tripadvisor.com/cambridge,ma http://www.tripadvisor.com/cambridge,ma
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ynniv 16y ago
TripAdvisor is a big (by startup standards), well established company, but we're a small, young team and built this feature in a startup timeframe (~ 3 months). Much of our effort was rapidly executing on some ideas of how to make travel planning more social, while coping with changes to Facebook's API's and their various announcements at f8. Now we get to leverage ~10 million unique monthly site visitors and scale for those ~5 million active Cities I've Visited users sanj mentioned. Sure beats fighting for 10,000 views while eating ramen. We've heard many folks say they will "change the game" in travel planning, but only have some VC funding to show for it. Seems like you might want a product to go with those claims... Consider the gauntlet thrown. east ~ side

6 points by sanj 16y ago

sanj 16y ago

I'm going to Andala. What should I order?

sanj 16y ago

My team's pointed out that I didn't actually say what we built. TripAdvisor runs the Cities I've Visited Facebook app: http://apps.facebook.com/tripadvisortravelmap http://apps.facebook.com/tripadvisortravelmap Over the last 3 years, we've collected over a billion "pins" worth of data across millions of users. Our MAU is about 5m. We've added Facebook Connect to our site and now have a box on each geo-specific page on our site which shows you which of your friends know about that location, based on their data in our pin database. What this means is that we find the short list of friends that can actually help and influence your travel decisions. The tools also pulls together responses from email & wall posts so that they don't disappear into the Facebook limbo. The part that I think is awesome is that we got to build something truly valuable and useful based on data gathered from a compelling and popular Facebook app. See it yourself: http://www.tripadvisor.com/cambridge,ma http://www.tripadvisor.com/cambridge,ma

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ynniv 16y ago

TripAdvisor is a big (by startup standards), well established company, but we're a small, young team and built this feature in a startup timeframe (~ 3 months). Much of our effort was rapidly executing on some ideas of how to make travel planning more social, while coping with changes to Facebook's API's and their various announcements at f8. Now we get to leverage ~10 million unique monthly site visitors and scale for those ~5 million active Cities I've Visited users sanj mentioned. Sure beats fighting for 10,000 views while eating ramen. We've heard many folks say they will "change the game" in travel planning, but only have some VC funding to show for it. Seems like you might want a product to go with those claims... Consider the gauntlet thrown. east ~ side