Articles tagged “trippy”

Online Travel

Interview: Trippy’s CEO on Travel Startups and the Art of the Pivot

Trippy is banking on the premise that its new question and answer platform for travel will be a cut above the rest in terms of quality, and that it will distinguish itself in the way it maps attractions and concisely summarises their basics for travel planning. That begs the question: Will it be enough?

Interview: Trippy’s CEO on Travel Startups and the Art of the Pivot

Online Travel

Social travel service Trippy notifies users it’s shutting down for “significant evolution”

Being the Facebook or Pinterest of travel was always going to be tough when there was a Facebook and Pinterest around.

Social travel service Trippy notifies users it’s shutting down for “significant evolution”

Media and PR

Will any social travel startup survive? It doesn’t look good

The sad fact of most social travel sites is that despite cool design and nice apps, there are plenty of social sites -- Facebook, Pinterest, and, yes, TripAdvisor -- that already did what they're trying to do.

Online Travel

Trippy reboots as another social travel site searches for inspiration and answers

There's definitely a time and place for trip-planning, and while social networks help, they may not be the optimum forum.

Media and PR

Trippy adds new profiles from travel brands to help out where your friends don’t

The speed at which Trippy is both pivoting and innovating likely gives it one of the better chances to emerge from the mass of social trip planning sites with a product that people will actually use.