Sherpa

Instagram’s best photos as a travel guide

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Instagram’s best photos as a travel guide

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Launch tags:iOS•Global Nomad•Travel

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I know people (@suzywillow being one) that use Instagram to get a feel for what a place is like. Being community-created, it feels more authentic and WYSYG than the manicured photo galleries on official websites. Nice work, @paul_aaron and team. 👍🏼 Separately, this app represents a possible unbundling of Instagram.

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9yr ago

Sherpa

Maker

@rrhoover @suzywillow Thanks Ryan!

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9yr ago

Venice Co-Manager

@paul_aaron getting this for Helsinki, will use tomorrow!!!!

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9yr ago

Axius

@rrhoover @suzywillow @paul_aaron Go where the people are!!! (conveniently works for both Product/Audience and Travel)

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9yr ago

Brilliant idea and great execution. I love how there's already content everywhere. I actually use Instagram as a travel guide plenty of times, but it's hard to sift through hundreds of selfies to find the one picture that best captures a place. How will you prevent Sherpa from becoming a selfie-infested place (as far as curation goes)? Also, what's the meaning of the name?

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9yr ago

Sherpa

Maker

@nscmnto hi Bruno! The name just sounded catchy to us. I suppose there is a bit of implied meaning, whereby everyone who signs up and creates a profile is helping others travel through their pictures - similar to how a Sherpa helps you reach your destination in a climb. Regarding the Selfie problem, we have done quite a bit of work from an algorithm standpoint to boost the very best content to the top (stuff that is specific to travel, versus selfies). Of course, it's not perfect, but something we will continue to work on as more people sign up.

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9yr ago

@paul_aaron definitely, and I think that creating that community from the beginning will help with the high quality content. I searched for some cities immediately after signing up and was really impressed with the content - good job with the algorithm!

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9yr ago

Linear

Love it! 😍 One of the most exciting new products I've discovered on PH this year! 1) Are you curating all of the content manually? 2) I'd love to filter results (hotel/airbnb; food, photo opportunities, etc) 3) Android version please :) 🙏

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9yr ago

@paul_aaron So awesome! Love this. How’d you manage to source all of the amazing user location content before launch? Well done!

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9yr ago

Pensaba que la aplicación había sido adquirida por google y que ya no funcionaba, de hecho la página web oficial no responde. ¿Podéis aclararlo?. Gracias.

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4yr ago

Truecaller

I'm excited to try it out, but I cannot login. Even though I provide a valid email, I get this error: {"error_type": "OAuthException", "code": 400, "error_message": "Client Disabled"}

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9yr ago

Josh Parnham

@behrooz_a I also receive this error 😔

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9yr ago

Looks clean, nice idea but freezes constantly for me. And I would love to see the option to edit a profile.

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9yr ago

Sherpa

Maker

@kirstenalana can you make sure you have the very latest in the app store? I believe you were on the beta version, and it might still be on your phone. Those freezing issues should be fixed now. Also, you can edit your own profile via the menu (three dots in the top right). Does that answer your question?

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9yr ago

@paul_aaron Sorry I forgot to reply here, Paul! Thanks for the continued improvements. Looking forward to seeing where you take the app.

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9yr ago

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