Tripstir

This is great. Imagine it could be really powerful for the growing "bleisure" market. @thejundi have you considered any features for business travelers trying to explore their destinations (either in free time or by extending)? My guess is those will be your most valuable return users.

How are you addressing the privacy concerns? If I am going to broadcast when I am going to not be home, I probably would like to have control over who can see that information.

Tripstir allows you to share future trips. All you have to do is put in your future plans and you'll see who will also be in that city. You can share and discover city wide travel recommendations with a trusted network of friends and followers. It's like checkin on Swarm...in the future. Instead of posting a status on Facebook or twitter asking for recommendations for your upcoming trip, it automates that. It also has great single user value with guides for travel destinations created by users. This app was created by my classmate at Columbia Business School. The network you make as an MBA is global. Tripstir allows you to tap into that network to track travel plans and recommendations.

Swarm for future travel is a good way of characterizing this pretty awesome app; if Swarm is too "new school millennial" for you, then think of Tripstir as mobile TripAdvisor meets Instagram, but with better and more modern features to capture and incorporate the personal travel preferences of you and your social network. I travel out of my home city at least twice a month for work and play, and I've got more than twenty travel apps on my phone. Honestly, Tripstir is hands-down the most useful - not to mention most entertaining and visually appealing - travel app to come along in years!

Finally I can always find out what my friends travel plans are or who I know will be living/visiting a destination when I plan to travel there. And no recommendations provide more value to me than those of my family and friends who generally like the same stuff I do!

What sorts of people are you finding using the app heavily/consistently?

I've never liked a single travel app until Tripstir. Hats off to the team here.