Currently building the Travel Massive community platform — you're using it now 😀
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
Los Angeles
I wrote a booking engine for a small airline.
The most remote places in the world
Travel with purpose
There's a great game on Alexa devices ("play music quiz") that does exactly that, you would be a champion at it!
Hi Nick, thanks for sharing your project with the Travel Massive community. It's fantastic to see a new open-source travel project so thoughtfully presented. As a developer I know how much effort went into preparing this for an open-source package, an... show more
A quick followup on this post — here's a recent article about Japan's abandoned houses: "Interest in the term “Akiya” (“empty house” in Japanese) has ballooned in recent years on TikTok and YouTube, largely driven by the viral exploits of expat influe... show more
RadioGuessr is a fun game where you listen to live radio streams from around the world and guess their location on a 3D globe. If you get stuck trying to guess, you can get a hint of either language, city, or region to narrow down your results. This is... show more
Hi Tasos, thanks for sharing updates on your project. Looks like you're making lots of great improvements to your app. A few quick questions: 1. What are the most common kinds of trips that your users are generating? 2. Have you considered spinning of... show more