Mappyfriends is a travel app that lets you ask your friends for travel advice. You can then search within your friend’s experiences in order to create your own.
Other recommendation websites show endless lists of consumer options and inconclusive reviews from hundreds of strangers which do not result in feel good decisions. The Mappyfriends network on the other hand offers reliable and helpful recommendations based on content generated by your friends your network. Who needs a thousand opinions if you can ask the opinion of all your friends?
We have created an easy and fun to use web and mobile interfaces that give every user an interactive map to fill with their favourite places. It let’s you connect with Facebook and Twitter to share directly and bring your social network to Mappyfriends. This way you have access to trustworthy information so you can make better choices in the future.
This week some more blogs were written about Mappyfriends. It is really exciting as we are now working on a mobile application and I have seen the first screens and everything seems to work fine. It will soon be super easy to add and find places based on your friends opinions!
A big thanks to these blogs:
Mappyfriends 26-07-10: Philip presented Mappyfriends at Ultralight Startups this July. Have a look at his one minute pitch and questionaire here: http://rm3s.net/ulsvids/Default.aspx?mg=e3b551b4-789d-4411-852f-32838cc9c437&ti=id0.4007115898101927.
Mappyfriends, 16th of July 2010 While we are working hard to make our users biggest wish reality, the mobile application, Mappyfriends continues to receive attention by bloggers. This week the Territorio Creativo and Larry Ferlazzo wrote about us, and we were named as one of the seven most powerful map tools by Smashingapps. Also, thanks to your feedback, we will make small but very affective changes to the interface so it will be easier and more intuitive to use. Please add your favorite places and make sure your friends here about it on Facebook and Twitter!
Mappyfriends 22-06-2010 A new homepage, more ways to follow us and a first live presentation of Mappyfriends in the Gallery Bar in New York! While the team in Buenos Aires is working hard on some major improvements of the website, Philip is knocking doors and pitching everybody in the Big Apple. Tonight he will do a 5 minute pitch to the startup crowd at Orchard Street’s Gallery Bar in an event hosted by www.web2newyork.com, which is organized by fellow Dutchman Peter Verkooijen. It promises to be an interesting night with other companies pitching too. Here is a video taken by Peter on a roof in Brooklyn!
Mappyfriends 21-06-2010 Last weekend Mappyfriends was featured in the Make Use Of Us blog. And yes, we should make use of Mappyfriends, it is going to be the best way to share your travel adventures and find your next. Who doesn’t like looking at your friend’s pictures at one of world’s wonders? It is fun, easy, social and very local information about places you wish to see some day. And the best part? You are helping your friends!