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PlanMy.Travel wants to solve travel planning woes with human expertise

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Re: PlanMy.Travel wants to solve travel planning woes with human expertise

#11

Not sure how big the market would be. I feel that a lot of people can get enough "knowledge" from http://wikitravel.org/

Better to use http://wikivoyage.org/ than wikitravel. It's a fork after there were some complaints about the owners of Wikitravel.

Re: PlanMy.Travel wants to solve travel planning woes with human expertise

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post #11

Not sure how big the market would be. I feel that a lot of people can get enough "knowledge" from http://wikitravel.org/

Better to use http://wikivoyage.org/ than wikitravel. It's a fork after there were some complaints about the owners of Wikitravel.

What happend? Is the content the same?

Re: PlanMy.Travel wants to solve travel planning woes with human expertise

#13
really like the idea. good stuff guys!

just want to know how do I choose who is a good travel planner? for example if her profile states she is a food + wine expert, can I get a glimpse of how does she think about them? like links to their blog posts etc?

Re: PlanMy.Travel wants to solve travel planning woes with human expertise

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Better to use http://wikivoyage.org/ than wikitravel. It's a fork after there were some complaints about the owners of Wikitravel.

What happend? Is the content the same?

Like any fork, the content was the same at the time of the fork. Obviously the content is no longer the same.

http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Wikivoyage_and_Wiki...

Re: PlanMy.Travel wants to solve travel planning woes with human expertise

#17

The page broke and was stuck at /index.php when I tried to ask a question. Come on folks! I wouldn't want to type out my whole query again.

Ouch, sorry :(

We are in beta and this is the sort of feedback that's really useful. We'll be fixing the flow so that we ask the user to sign in before they enter the question - that way its less likely to cause this problem. Sorry again about that.

Re: PlanMy.Travel wants to solve travel planning woes with human expertise

#18

Not sure how big the market would be. I feel that a lot of people can get enough "knowledge" from http://wikitravel.org/

Wikitravel is a great tool (so are many of the other content sites like lonelyplanet, frommers, etc) for those who don't mind plowing through dozens of sites to get the information they need and then putting it all together.

We believe that the market for seeking out expertise is pretty big though. Do check out recent news about Vayable's pivot into a similar space.

Re: PlanMy.Travel wants to solve travel planning woes with human expertise

#20

A bit off topic, but this is the first site I've seen to the use the .travel extension in quite some time. Why not just pick up the planmytravel.com?

Short answer: because it's taken and expensive.

Long answer: http://blog.planmy.travel/post/61015163485/planmy-dot-what

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