TraveloBuddies is an interesting startup that aims to build a community around travelers.
Before you ask – why another social network/community site?
Well, the TOB portal has comprehensive information on things related to travel – right from features like Home stay to Famous Recipes etc.
TravelOBuddies has added 243 destinations worldwide so far and also has couple of useful sections like classified, search a buddy.
What’s missing is a) Focus and b) the community angle to the entire product?
I believe TOB is trying to be everything right from the day one – instead, they should probably focus on one aspect of the product – i.e. do they want to give away comprehensive info and build a community around that?
Or
Do they want to build an intention-based community (intention based on travel route/destination etc) ?
The difference is huge and is also a function of how TOB wants to position itself as.
Will you use TOB? What feedback do you have for them?
An interesting startup in travel/exploration space: GeoBeats
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HI! Ashish,
Thank you very much for writing a review, when we started travelobuddies.com, it was well, with out focus, we only thought of one thing that we should give something to traveler community, as all of us involved in the project are avid traveler. As we realized the potential of travelobuddies.com and building a community around our focus has been on providing authentic informations to travelers coming to India. Though, our aim is to become global in few years of time. Home Stay is something where we will focus more and more. Our aim is to have an inventory of 1500 rooms by the end next quarter.
Thank you once again,
Neeraj
yeah..looks more like a casual attempt..not sure what are they actually trying to address