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cesidio | 7 years ago | on: How TripAdvisor Changed Travel

I hope that many reviews help having a better idea of the place before going, but I don't trust them too much, for they can be not authentic, or driven by personal feelings. I rely more on qualified reviews like lonely planet guides, 8 out of 10 times they work well for me, and the remaining times are just average, nothing too bad.

cesidio | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development?

Support for Linux will enable you to create, test and run Android and web app for phones, tablets and laptops all on one Chromebook. Run popular editors, code in your favorite language and launch projects to Google Cloud with the command-line. Everything works directly on a Chromebook.

Linux runs inside a virtual machine that was designed from scratch for Chromebooks. That means it starts in seconds and integrates completely with Chromebook features. Linux apps can start with a click of an icon, windows can be moved around, and files can be opened directly from apps

cesidio | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Books you read in 2017?

I had the same feeling with The Hunger Games. The first one is amazing, the second starts to be repetitive. Didn't manage to get to the third one.

cesidio | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you stay healthy?

I run every other day, this is the best advice I can give. I run in a park and do some exercises too. Spending some time in the open air has improved my mood considerably. I guess that what is most unhealthy about our current modern life is not only sitting for too long, but not breathing outside fresh air.

Also follow the simple rule: 'eat food, not too much, mostly plants'

cesidio | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell?

CompanyCarpool Carooling app for companies and organizations: http://www.companycarpool.com/ I keep on receiving interest from big companies, but don't manage to convert it into a sell. Not sure I want to sell it, but would be interested in some help and potential partners. The algorithm that finds compatible rides along the whole route is quite advanced (BlaBlaCar does not have it)

cesidio | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Itinerary matching service (carpooling)

Hello, creator here. Do you guys have any suggestions on how to make this product successful? I am trying to sell this service to businesses, in order to offer it to their employees, but it has not been successful so far. Should I write an API? I am also trying to sell it as white-label software. I think there are many cases where such a simple tool can help millions of people doing carpooling efficiently, but struggling to get it in the hands of people, even not making much money.

cesidio | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: a better couchsurfing platform?

I also loved couchsurfing (http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/cesidio) and wanted to fix couchsurfing creating another product, but I struggle to create interest around it and a viable business model...

http://beta.minstrels.com/

any help or advices would be very helpful. It is built in ruby on rails and uses mongodb as database and deployed on heroku. it is just a prototype at the moment, a working prototype but with fake data in it.

The product is different from couchsurfing in the following things:

1) there are stories that form a user 'travel resume' that help users host real travelers and not just people wanting to get hosted for free

2) there is the concept of 'incentives' so a traveler can increase the chances of being hosted by providing something useful/entertaining to the potential host (small present, cooking a meal, sharing some knowledge on something)

3) there are 2 types of meetings: open meetings (where everyone can participate), close meetings (organizer can approve requests to participate)

cesidio | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: icare - Open Source carpooling application built with RoR and MongoDB

Hi, we are using Facebook at the moment because icare is in a demo state and Facebook provides personal information that is important for a ride sharing project. Unfortunately twitter doesn't provide us e-mail address and people do not use their real name: we think we need our own authentication system to allow pepole linking their own twitter account. Google+ is an option we are considering. It's not just a matter of API because we are caching facebook likes and friends with their ids to highlight common interests.
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