Comments on: My Startup – Plnnr.com

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:44:56 +0000

Mazal Tov!!!!
very cool!

By: arkon

arkon — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:19:55 +0000

Hey Imri
Way to go man, mazal tov!
I just entered the site from work with IE6 (not my comp) and you did a bold move with not letting in the site but suggesting me to download a new browser!
Dling…
It’s a shame you don’t have London cause I am flying there tomorrow. :)
It’s hard to really test the site, not talking about playing it, without a use case. Anyway, I think you should hilight the roads or places when you vote (no-way, maybe, etc), so it’s clearer where they are positioned.
Also for taxis, it’s important to know how much you should pay, cause they usually fool tourists.
It seems calculating get stuck for some reason after playing with the daily plan. hmmm.

Bottom line, it looks really impressive and professional.
Wishing you all the best!

By: ripper234

ripper234 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:43:47 +0000

Good luck to you guys, amazing work so far.

By: rmn

rmn — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:03:10 +0000

Wow, congratulations on opening the site to the public!

It looks awesome, gotta love simplistic and useful design. Good luck with it.

By: lorg

lorg — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:43:41 +0000

Anthony:
The blog is fixed, thanks again for the heads up.

By: lorg

lorg — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:36:26 +0000

Anthony:
1. We are working on adding more destinations now, although we’ll probably add more destinations from Europe first. I’ll try to push Japan up though :)
2. Thanks, will fix that asap

Thanks!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:04:51 +0000

Cool site!

1) Wonder if you will expand the destination to cover Japan as well?

2) When trying to read the blog section, I got error “Error establishing a database connection” instead

Keep up the good work

By: lorg

lorg — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:20:09 +0000

Ofir:
First, Thanks! I really appreciate your comments!
As to your suggestions:
a. hotels: will do, I’m working on it now :)
b. anchors: you can do that already, although adding POI’s of your own (“custom POIs”) is currently not well supported, I will make it work better.
c. Will do. After a big revamping, the tag system will do that
d. I plan on adding alternatives, and there are even more features down the road that will answer this issue. Regarding where trip planning will go… Honestly, I don’t know, but I believe there is a market for this idea, and some people would like to just ‘let go’.

Re- enhancements – will do, working on it now.
Thanks again!

By: Ofir Israel

Ofir Israel — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:04:21 +0000

Hey Dude,
First I want to congratulate you for reaching this stage in the project, that is really great.
Second, the site looks great! I love the GUI and the front page (though it looks a bit off on my FF 3.5 for some reason..). Did you design yourself or did you hire someone?
Third, I have to say, from my own point of view, the idea is cool, but:
a) You need to expand the hotel choosing options (sometimes you get a “deal” and are “stuck” with a certain hotel, which might not be in your list.
b) I would add “anchors” so that if I know I want to see a flamenco show that I heard is good so it can be added to the route.
c) I don’t know how you decide which places are at most interesting but perhaps in your ripping algorithm you can add keywords so that someone who’s interested in sports will get a route visiting BarcelonaFC’s stadium..
d) Perhaps adding alternatives. I’ll try to explain myself better: Personally, when I plan a trip, I ENJOY viewing alternatives and choosing where to go, even leaving some optional places if I don’t like my original route. I know a lot of people (my dad, for instance) enjoy planning and reading about the places they’ll be visiting almost as much as they enjoy at the trip eventually. The idea of automatic time-saving trip planning is great, but do you really think it would replace a more thorough trip planning? I don’t…

But again- really looks good and professional. Maybe enhance a bit ’bout the back-end? :)

later,
Ofir