Hi everyone! Max here, Co-Founder of Journy! We started on Journy about a year ago to create a digital profile of ourselves as travelers. We figured a game was one of the best ways to go about it!
We wanted to capture a single, easy to digest, indicator that gave some sort of an illustration of what kind of a traveler we were, which is why we landed on experience and levels. We also wanted to provide some richer information in the form of trophies that show some of the highlights of your travels and give you something to chase after while you are traveling. But we aren’t going to stop there, thats just the start. We are working on building out social functions that will help you travel more and with more people which will in turn increase your experience and level on Journy. Think a form of social discovery for travel, but based on where your friends are now, where they have been in the past, and where their friends are. We want to help people connect friends to each other while they travel since we believe part of the travel experience is who you meet up with along the way.
Currently we are using social media to get information on you as a traveler to minimize friction for our users, which we understand for many of you may not be ideal as you are not all avid social media fanatics. However we found that if there was ever a time to post its while traveling. In the future we hope to solve this problem and make it so even if you don’t like to post your travels to social media you will still be able to claim your deserved level on Journy.
We would love to hear your thoughts and ideas for future features as we are bootstrapped and very much building this out based off of user feedback! Thanks for the up votes! <3
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