Gabriele Mazzola 🧭

- Do not waste time on streak, kitty points and all that BS. - Do not think that launching on PH should be the objecting, see it more as the starting point.

For those new to Touring - a little backstory: In November 2023, we launched the initial concept for Touring here on Product Hunt, reaching 2nd Product of the Day. The overwhelming response from this community motivated us to dedicate several months to creating a powerful product for the modern traveler. With continuous testing and iterations involving over 1,000 early adopters, we are now...

For me, having reached 2nd Product of the Day, it's not so much about the credibility. To be honest, when I see other people bragging about the position on PH, it does not have a great effect on me. Rather, I think, it's about the traffic and visibility you get. Become one of the top products, means A LOT of people will check out your product. IMHO, that's it.

Validating the willingness to pay. We've got many users who are using the app, but we're struggling to validate whether Touring has the potential of being a profitable product. Any opinion about that?

I honestly don't get the whole idea behind PH's streak: once you realize that most people in the top streak leaderboard just use bots that perform daily clicks and interactions automatically, it loses the entire credibility. I think PH's users should be better than this, and rely on some other measure of "how active a person is in the community" rather than a click on random stuff, daily.

Yes, indeed. Touring | Explore the world uses a complex pipeline to be able to craft insightful stories about any place in the world. It relies on several different LLMs, leveraging their different aspect according to the specific task within the pipeline. This makes it possible to create these stories in just a matter of seconds!

Yes, and for the better!

Take a day off

Brain interfaces!

We're gonna try a few initiatives soon for Touring - recruited a few travel influencers to push some content about our app - we're making fliers and we'll go to some of the most popular places in Milan and other major cities, to try and give tourists a few coupons for a time-limited usage of the app - we're going to post and share in our personal networks - we implemented a referral program in...

I'm all for cross platform frameworks. For me, react-native does the job incredibly well!

Good luck guys!

The pros, in my opinion, are endless: the opportunities that this technology has opened are really countless. So, everyone can follow their creativity and pursue their goal in a much easier way, compared to some years ago. On the other side, and I am also experiencing this myself, I believe this has led to an inflated market where everyone is launching something new everyday, and most things...

between 4/5 months, in react native.

Hey Konrad! Cool, are you developing natively or using some cross-platform technology? I am currently working on Touring | Explore the world , which is a react-native mobile app, and we'll launch in a few days on PH! Would love to hear what you think of it! I'll check out your App Finder later on today 💪

I've found that forcing myself to do something active in the morning (like a run, a long walk, a session at the gym, ...) REALLY improves my focus during the rest of the day. Initially, I refused to do it because I kept thinking "I could use this time for work instead, and be more productive", but I then realised it was the actual opposite.

Maaaan you're on fire 🔥