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Fun stuff I've been involved in:
🌎 Built the world's first search engine for ocean research datasets (2005)
✈️ Developed Airlines of Tasmania's first online reservation system (2006)
💬 Launched World Nomads' "Ask A Nomad" Q&A Community (2009-2011)
🤑 Launched Australia's first flight deals website "GetFlight" (2011-2012)
👶 Investor in TinyBeans.com family photo sharing app which floated on ASX (2014)
🇨🇳 Built Jambo — a crowdsourced interpreter network, trialed MVP in China (2014)
🔥 Investor in Firechat (mesh chat app) — until the CEO disappeared! 🙃 (2019)
📱 Investor in SkyHi — the world's first subscription flight service (2019-2021)
💡 Founding team of the Social Entrepreneurship in Tourism Competition (2019-now)
🥾 CTO of MappyHour.org — a community for outdoor enthusiasts in the US (2016-2025)
East Coast, Tasmania
East Africa
I wrote a booking engine for a small airline.
The most remote places in the world
Travel with purpose
Hi Maxim, thanks for sharing your updates and lots of new features! One question about friend's flights. Is there a similar option but in reverse? e.g. Where I can share a series of flights (e.g. this trip to Vietnam for our conference) with friends. I... show more
Summer updates from byAir 2 days ago
Can confirm that of the Top 500 North American and UK creators on Travel Massive that traffic is up 10% on their blogs in aggregate in July. However some blogs lost traffic, while others gained. If I get a chance to look more closely at the data and spo... show more
I can't believe the startup competition is only a week away! Congratulations to the finalists, and thank you to everyone who submitted an application to our call-out last month — we received many high quality applications from the around the world. N... show more
Hi everyone, we're so excited to be putting this event together! I've just arrived in Vietnam to help @natalya and the team set up for next week. The food in Da Nang is so good (and very affordable), and it's easy to get around using Grab app (download... show more
Hi Andreas, thanks for joining the Travel Massive community and sharing your discussion here. We've been tracking the impact of AI in travel for a few years now (see our #AI topic). There's two camps on this in terms of the content creation space: • "... show more
Ideas, AI, and the Meaning of Travel 16 days ago
