Hello Everyone,
We have just launched Tripoto.com and wanted to share more information about it with you guys @therodinhoods. At Tripoto we are bringing together travelers from around the world to share and discover – real, actionable, crowd-sourced travel stories. We are mapping every single destination in the story – along with the associated content and pictures.
We started out by listening to stories of 1000’s of travelers. We realized that these amazing travel stories need to be bought together on a single platform for easy discovery. We also realized that the information in these stories needs to be presented in a way that other travelers can use it.Somehow finding actionable travel itineraries is still a problem and we decided to take a shot at solving this problem via crowd-sourcing. Tripoto aims to solve the above mentioned problems. For our sharing user base – i.e – active travel writers, bloggers and journalists – we want to enable them to do the following – a) Share their stories easily and beautifully b) Create their personal brand c) Act as independent guides
Product Usage: The product and the content are the two most important elements on Tripoto. We are continuously building new features to make sharing and discovering easier, smoother and fun. While Tripoto allows anyone to share a trip with friends and family (through the private trip feature) – only a trip that meets the minimal quality threshold is published on Tripoto.com
Sharing a trip is easy on Tripoto and the trips come out beautifully with a minimal effort. The trips can be shared either publicly or privately using a simple toggle button. Public trips go through an approval process before being published on Tripoto (Only high quality and useful content makes it to Tripoto), whereas private content can be shared via a url with your friends and family.
Below is a snapshot of our four step sharing process.
You can see below is a snapshot of how a trip would look on Tripoto.I am posting a snapshot from a trip created by Baichung Bhutia, Former Indian Football Captain, on Sikkim
First you can see the creator profile (an important element for personalized trips), duration of trip and high resolution images.
Below this you can see the trip overview, trip type, costs and other people on trip which are useful information for another traveler
Scrolling further below you can see the trip itinerary with all the places in the trip plotted on the map with associated images and descriptions:
The profile of the traveler who has shared the trip is an important piece of information for any traveler that wants to use this trip. You can get to know more about the traveler in the Profile section:
Sistla Venkata Abhishek
Great work Anirudh .. !!! Keep it up !! Will definitely check for the amazing experiences and if possible will post one soon 🙂
Anirudh Gupta
thanks a lot Abhishek 🙂 Look forward to your experience on Tripoto soon.
Pawan Deokule
Pretty cool stuff this tripoto.
Do keep us posted on the progress. Will share the link with friends who travel.
Anirudh Gupta
Thanks a lot of Pawan. Definitely will keep you posted on the progress.
Here is a recent article about tripoto on tnooz that might interest you.
https://www.tnooz.com/article/startup-pitch-tripoto-enables-travellers-generate-money-structuring-travel-stor
Would love to get and insights and feedback from the rodinhoods
Akanksha Bumb Sachdeva
Hi Anirudh!
Great work. I would like you to go through my post https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/self-sustain-travel-stint-to-learn-and-research?commentId=6328457%3AComment%3A195285&xg_source=msg_com_forum
and see if there can be a way to collaborate.
All the best!
Anirudh Gupta
Akanksha,
Great stuff!. Would love to collaborate. Lets talk more about things we can do together in further detail.You can email me at anirudh.gupta@tripoto.com. What is your email address?
asha chaudhry
many congrats anirudh!
just read the funding news…. exciting times for your team!!
https://techcircle.vccircle.com/2014/11/12/travel-startup-tripoto-raises-400k-from-outbox-ventures-palaash-ventures-others/
we’d love to hear more from you! do share some learnings and what next….
Anirudh Gupta
Thanks Asha. Excited as well for the future. Learnings have been that in fundraise the first commit is the most important to get if building a syndicate.
Future course of action is to scale up our tech team both on the web and mobile side. Looking for exceptional technology talent interested in technology startup jobs out of delhi to join us at http://www.tripoto.com. We are building some interesting stuff on the mobile side and also venturing into using big data on the shared information by the community, using some NLP and building a travel planner. So if there are any techies who are looking to solve such problems we will be happy to have them on board with us 🙂