06Aug2008

We’re PUBLIC!

We’re releasing TripSay to public today! Almost two years of hard work and lots of beta testing and we’re ready to go public. After today, you no longer need an invite to join the service. Anyone can join and start discovering and sharing interesting places to go to. We’re all very happy and excited to see how it all works out now we have opened the doors to everyone. We’ve done a lot of work and testing to make the user experience as good as possible and we hope you like it as much we do.

The site is by no means complete and we have a ton of ideas how to make it even more usable, which we start to work on after the launch. We also welcome your ideas and feedback, they are very much appreciated.

So go ahead, join in at http://www.tripsay.com and start discovering!

Read more about TripSay in the press here:
http://www.tripsay.com/public/press

Date: Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 at 8:56 pm | Category: Uncategorized | RSS Feed: RSS 2.0 feed.
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5 Responses to “We’re PUBLIC!”

  1. August 6th, 2008 at 10:57 pm TripSay Launches - Gets Good PR Says:

    […] the Finnish social travel startup, that I’ve covered a few times before has opened up to public beta.  The company has done good PR work, since the launch is covered - among others - in two of the […]

  2. August 7th, 2008 at 12:00 am ArcticStartup Says:

    Congrats guys from ArcticStartup! Well done!

  3. August 7th, 2008 at 6:17 am Felipe Says:

    Hey guys, congratulations and welcome to the wild! A couple of questions for you… I’m just curious:

    1) Two years? It sounds like a lot of time to me. Did you guys have any issues that came up that might have delayed your original plans (that you can/want to share)? Or any other reason for it?

    2) Any marketing tips. You guys were on techCrunch 3 times or something (besides the fact that you know Erick)?

    Anyway, site looks great. Looking forward to seeing where it will go.

  4. August 8th, 2008 at 5:03 pm juha Says:

    Hi Felipe,

    1) No real problems or anything like that. Just a lot of work to do. Of course we got the first version finished much earlier but decided to build the product much further before going public. All the things done in the backend like the recommendation engine and natural language processing that aren’t necessarily instantly visible to the users caused a lot of work for us.

    2) Use a good PR agency. :) We hired a very good agency that understands our service and knows the industry. They have helped us tremendously.

  5. August 12th, 2008 at 1:14 pm Kristoffer Lawson Says:

    Congratulations guys and thanks for a nice launch event!

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