Thanks FaceBook fans!

In less than a week, we have had enough FaceBook users fan TravelDice that we now qualify for an easy-to-remember URL!
Visit us now at http://www.facebook.com/TravelDice !
And keep checking TravelDice.com as we prepare to roll out our beta version. Wei’s working hard, and we anticipate it will be online soon!

Project Status

We had a successful demo of the technology on Sunday night at the finale of Startup Weekend. Turns out we probably got a bit over-aggressive with what we wanted it to — tying in some social media and other features we plan for future versions before they were really ready to go. So we’re working [...]

The Heavy Lifting

The algorithm on the back side is turning out to be more complex than I think any of us anticipated. I suppose it’s one of the “unwritten rules.” Wei has done some truly heavy lifting in the past 30 hours modeling the data and preparing it to deploy. When we demo tonight, it will be [...]

The Great Thing About Startup Weekend

It’s getting late in the day and the short mental re-focus breaks are becoming more frequent for all of us. But the things we talk about when all of us pull away are some of the highest-value times of the weekend.
For instance, we just spent about 5 minutes talking about a frequent theme of Seth [...]

Serendipity – The Story of the TravelDice Logo

When Adam presented the idea for TravelDice last night, one of the first things everyone “got” was the pleasant surprises one might get when they searched for travel with a budget and a time frame in mind, but no place.
Part of the UrbanSpoon cachet is discovering restaurants you had no idea existed. We wanted to [...]

The TravelDice Concept

“Show me some cool places I can afford to go.”
Online travel shopping takes only one form right now. Decide where you want to go, decide when you want to go, find out how much you’ll pay.  WHAT IF: a travel site turned that on its ear? Let’s start with how much you want to pay. [...]