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Review my startup: Mentaway.com

by eduardosasso on 3/1/11, 2:36 PM with 11 comments

Mentaway is a Facebook app to automatically track your travels. It integrates geolocation services like Facebook Places, Foursquare, Flickr and Twitter and helps to collect and organize all the countries you have visited and also see the places your friends have been visiting.

http://mentaway.com

Would love your feedback on the idea and its direction.

Thanks!

  • by ffumarola on 3/1/11, 4:05 PM

    How much traffic is needed to make this supportable by an ad-based model?

    Other than that, who are your major competitors? I know I've seen a ton of people use travel apps on facebook, but I don't think any aggregate all of their social feeds.

    Have you considered a demo for someone who wants to tour the service before joining?

  • by yoseph on 3/1/11, 5:03 PM

    Interesting idea. It sounds cool.

    My only piece of feedback would be about the name. When I first read the title of this post, I thought your company was a mentoring service.

    TripAdvisor and Where I've Been certainly sound like travel apps.

  • by RiderOfGiraffes on 3/1/11, 2:38 PM

  • by JohnTitus on 3/1/11, 2:49 PM

    Curious: How'd you come up with the name? Also: How do you plan to make money?