Introducing Explorio, the World's First Decentralized Travel Reviews Platform
Hello my Steemian friends and welcome back! This time I have something exciting to share with you!
Most of you know that I am totally into traveling and photography. I used to share my pictures on Facebook but stopped quite after I found out about Steemit. For the very first time, I had the feeling that my content is actually worth something. Despite the fact that we can earn with our own content I am overwhelmed by the amazing community and the exposure Steemit gives us.
Today I will proudly present you a new project in which I am involved as an advisor. Explorio is about to be the world's first decentralized travel reviews platform which rewards users for contributing and curating high-quality travel content.
Introduction video of Explorio
Similar to Steemit, Explorio wants to tackle the problem that content creators are not given the rewards they deserve. Travel review writers literally spend countless hours writing posts for platforms like TripAdvisor, Yelp etc. for nothing. In 2016, TripAdvisor made $1.4 billion in revenues and yet nothing went back to the users that give value to the plattform. With Exploriothis is about to change by rewarding its users with Explorio tokens.
If you have a look at the team you will see that it consists of highly reputable members. Their CEO, Jacob Laukaitis, is a serial online entrepreneur, who has been traveling the world for the last 4 years as a digital nomad. During that time, he co-founded a couple of successful online businesses (including a hotel booking platform Travel-Ticker that got acquired by HotelPlanner, and ChameleonJohn - a seven-figures online coupons website).
Furthermore, their CTO, Marijonas Petrauskas, is a passionate blockchain enthusiast and algorithm expert who has spent the last three years as an infrastructure engineer at Uber. Before that, he was a site reliability engineer at Google and a kernel developer at Microsoft.
Their advisors come from companies like Expedia, Google, Booking.com etc.
If you want to know more about how Explorio wants to realize their project I recommend you to have a look at their whitepaper.
There is a Steemit exclusive pre-Sale currently in progress and the official ICO is targeted for July. To learn about how to participate, you can visit their website https://explorio.com, join their Telegram or leave a comment.
Ok, how it will compete with trip advisor. People don't always want to make money on everything. Can't image shuffling thos platform for valuable info let say about Naples and get often low quality whale content or flood of even weaker content from plankton. Lets make it clear. People will do anything (which not always equals for good) to earn money. Free for all just work fine for me, and prestige point or any exp equivalent is enough reward for this
People are free to post whatever they want, it's the same as Steemit or any other platform. However, the problem you stated is explained in the whitepaper under 3.2. Submitted content is peer-reviewed to verify reliability and published on the platform:
Content submissions are not published on the platform before their reliability is
confirmed by a distributed consensus of peer reviewers. Every submission must also
meet certain criteria:
Woahhh this sounds like an amazing project! Would Explorio also be able to tackle the problem with fake reviews on these kinds of review platforms?
Not sure if you saw that video where some guy from Vice managed to get his "restaurant" to number 1 in London without even having a restaurant. Which really brings people to question the validity of these review websites (as much as I would love to trust them as it would just be so useful!)
Either way, Exploria sounds like it's gonna shake some things up - when can we expect to start contributing and getting involved?!
Hey buttpacker, thanks for your message! The problem you mentioned is widespread. Big corporations sitting on money simply buy their reviews. With Explorio however we will change things.
Submitted content is peer-reviewed to verify reliability and published on the platform. The content undergoes the process of peer review and, once approved by other travelers, is stored on the blockchain and subsequently rewarded by tokens.
Peer reviewers are chosen by prioritizing users who have reviewed places in close
proximity, thus maximizing the chances that they are able to accurately assess
content quality and reliability.
Users are incentivized to engage in peer review through Explorio Honor token (XPLH)
rewards, which are given out based on whether an individual reviewer’s decision
matches the majority’s decision (see section 5.1.: Explorio Honor tokens). This
helps ensure that all our content is unique, reliable, and does not infringe existing
copyrights.
More information is found in the whitepaper https://explorio.com/whitepaper.pdf or join the telegram https://t.me/teamexplorio
Possibly you should advise them to use SMT ...
just saying ;-)
Moin my friend! Been a long time. If you have a look at their white paper, their goal is to use SMT
Moin, moin. True, it has been some time ;-)
It's good to hear, it is already in the whitepaper, still MORE advice to use it, would do no harm. Just to write down something in a whitepaper doesn't lead to that end (I heard about that at some point in the past)
Awesome breakthrough for traveller
This will be a great platform. Without any manipulation of data from buying useless stuff.
This could be a good news for travelling photographer too, they don't have to be in steemit to earn more about their experience on exploring the hidden paradise that doesn't offering you just great hotels.
I will definitely use explorio!
I liked, well done .. good work
Not for extravagance and greed
Thanks for sharing..
This looks really promising owing to the fact that the team members consist of individuals with a great wealth of experience.
About the affiliate stuff, I see nothing wrong from earning with introducing someone to a great thing like this. You are earning honestly.
Thanks for sharing this, I will definitely take a look
Thanks for your feedback. I let everyone know about the referral just to keep things more transparent. Potential investors should know every little detail. Furthermore the reason I joined explorio’s team is simply because they are experienced, have great idea and Jacob, their CEO, is a awesome person
I recently started to learn about ICO's so I'll take a look, thanks)
Always do a lot of research when it comes to ICOs. If you have any questions feel free to contact me
Right now I'm curious about Sentinel protocol and Egretia :)
Note to self, check this out when I get to reliable internet