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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)
What is your favorite travel destination?
Q&AEast Coast, Tasmania
Where do you dream of traveling to?
Q&AVladivostok
What was your first travel job?
Q&AI wrote a booking engine for a small airline.
What do you want to learn more about?
Q&AThe most remote places in the world
Three words that describe why we should travel?
Q&ATravel with purpose
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I think it's fine to have an AI generated site so long as a) it works, and b) it's accurate. The skepticism from users comes from thinking "oh, this site was made in 5 minutes, is it real?". So you need to work on humanising your site. One idea is put ... show more
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This was such a fun event, and wonderful to meet so many members of our community in Tokyo and Japan. Thanks Scott and Ally for bringing this chapter back to life! We can't wait to visit again.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one recognising AI coded sites! I did give Krish some feedback a few weeks ago and he addressed it before we published his post. Now comes the hard part - getting human visitors and customers.
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This is a great resource, thanks for sharing! As someone who lives on a beach, I'm always curious about the rules of beach access in other places. For example here in Australia all beaches are free to access, there's no "private beach" concept. Wate... show more
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Most successful tourism destinations benefit from having an attractive currency - look at Japan, Thailand, Australia, etc. What matters is spending your money where it goes into the local economy and won't get extracted (eg via foreign owned hotels or m... show more
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