Last weekend I mentored the participants of the Startup Hackathon here in Melbourne (startuphack.org). In theirs words, "Startup Hackathon is…
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Morocco is a fascinating place to visit, and it's just a 1-hour ferry ride away from Europe by crossing the strait of Gibraltar from Algeciras, Spain to Tangier, Morocco. Morocco was once a French protectorate, and the influence is still…
The Caribbean is littered with fascinating islands, and hopping between them makes for a unique travel experience. The islands are not as well connected by ferry as, say, the Greek islands. This is largely due to the greater distances between…
It's been a busy week for the rome2rio team. After a bunch of engineering groundwork over the past two months we've been shipping a bunch of changes to the site and adding more transport coverage (mostly trains) around the globe.…
We pushed out another rome2rio release this week. Amongst the changes were the addition of the NYC subway, San Francisco BART and Seattle airport lightrail. We made more routing engine improvements, especially the handling of travel between island...
We pushed out a new version of rome2rio this week. Here are some of the improvements we made: Support entering a country, state or airport code We regularly analyze our search logs to see what sort of queries users are…
The French are known for some pretty impressive engineering feats, such as the Eiffel Tower or TGV Train network. Less well known however is the amazing engineering accomplished by the Les Machines de l'île, an artistic and tourist project based…
Since rome2rio launched, we've received advice from various people in the startup and travel tech industries about rome2rio, and how we can improve the product going forward. The advice has been invaluable and offered freely. So it's only fair tha...
We are excited to announce a new member of the rome2rio team. Ed Hooper will be joining us part-time as Business Development Manager. Ed is a business-minded technology enthusiast and no stranger to the world of startups. For the past…
A few weeks ago Bernie and I visited San Francisco to kick off the launch of the beta version of rome2rio. The launch went well and we received a healthy spike in traffic, some great user feedback, and interest from…
rome2rio can save you money. A lot of money. I'm going to show you how. Image you live in Quebec City. You need to travel to Brussels for business. You do a search on a travel search site like Orbitz…
We've spent a lot of time thinking about rome2rio's user interface. The graphic design has had a major revamp over the last few weeks, thanks largely due to the contributions of my talented sister, Lara Cameron. Lara is now busy…
We've spent the last few weeks working on cleaning up our UI, improving our flight results and increasing performance. I want to talk a little about performance and how we went about improving it. Why? Because performance, in my opinion,…
A few weeks ago we got an email from the BizSpark mailing list alerting us to a Startup Camp happening here in Melbourne. The agenda sounded pretty cool – one day of tech talks all about Azure and developing for…
At rome2rio we love to travel by train. We believe it's one of the most enjoyable form of transport. Often accompanied by great scenery, it offers a chance to travel with the locals. It's also often cheaper, and sometimes faster,…
It's been over four months since we both moved from Seattle back to Australia to start working full-time on rome2rio. With our inaugural blog post we've decided to reflect on those first few months, and what it has been like…