User search
Another little feature. Since we are growing fast, it’s becoming difficult to find friends among all Wolpy users, so we have added an user search box in the users page.
Archive for the ‘Features’ Category
Static image map
Just a little break (we are working hard those days in the beta version of Wolpy) to launch a cool feature.
Since some web services (like flickr or myspace) don’t admit embed code for inserting interactive maps in their pages, we have created an image version of your map of visited places so you can insert it even in this kind of web sites.
As a static image it cannot be zoomed neither the points can be clicked to go to each place’s page in Wolpy, but this method should work on every site you’ll try to insert your map.
Here it is the code for inserting your image map. And, as an example, that’s lebowsky’s image map:
Comment other people’s travels
A lot of users requested us a way of communicate with other users, so we decided implemment a comment system.
Now, there is a page for each of your visited places (where, in the future you will be able to publish all your travel experience, like photos or tips) and there people can leave their comments.
This is, for example, the page of my visit to Tokio, with several comments.
Back from Barcelona
Back from the beautiful Barcelona where we attended the Startup 2.0 (congratulations to the winners: Zilok, UnLtdWorld and iFoods), we are now finishing a comment system for Wolpy, that will let you to contact with other users and ask them anything about their trips and visited places.
After that, we are going to focus on all the features requested by you these days: user search, an easy way of suggesting new places, several ways to order your visited places… We have so much work to do!
Oh! By the way, El País, one of the most important newspapers in Spain, has published an article about the three Spanish projects who were finalists in Startup 2.0: Bubok, Planetaki and Wolpy. Although they mispelled our names and age, it’s a cool article. You can read an automatic translated version here.
Search for places
We have added a search box for places in the header of each page in Wolpy. Many users had requested this feature and we had already planned to launch it soon after making Wolpy public.
By searching for a place you will also discover how many places on Earth have the same name. It’s very funny!
For example, did you know that there are 109 “springfield” in USA? or 39 “madrid” in the whole Earth? Of course, the main one is Madrid, Spain, visited by 55% of Wolpy users!
We hope that you all find this feature useful :)
Thank you, early adopters!
We are very excited about how our early preview was received by users, bloggers and friends everywhere. We wanted to thank you all for that. We appreciate a lot all the blog posts, tweets and mails received during this five days since we launched.
All the feedback received is very valuable and we are working hard on some new features inspired on it.
We have fixed several small bugs and also we released two small features you can enjoy now:
- Enlarge your map. This allows you to see your map in full screen mode. Some of you asked for that and we agree it’s cool to see the map with your visited places this way. Here is an example of an enlarged map.
- New reviews displayed in home page. If you want to see the fresh activity happening in Wolpy now we are listing last reviews and registered users in our home page.
We are also planning to launch, in a few days, a search engine for places. You will be able to search places by name and discover who have visited this location and read the reviews shared by the visitors.
One more time, thank you all! We are now more than 300 registered users in Wolpy and we hope to continue growing this community with your help!
Oh! I almost forget! We are participating in the Startup 2.0 contest, a competition of European startups where all the contestants are very interesting projects that make us feel very proud to be there, fighting for a position in the top 10, being only five days old. If you have enjoyed Wolpy, please, consider voting for us :)