Investors Say “Count Me In” To Plancast

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12 points·aditya··8 comments

Agreed, it's a great concept and nice execution.

Suggestion: If any of the devs see this thread, it'd be great to have privacy settings, so (optionally) only approved folks could see your travel plans.

Edit: After RTFA, I see that "...And after the SXSW madness, the plan is to implement more privacy features, we’re told."

Cool.

You are not alone in your desire for better privacy controls. Here's kind of what our roadmap has been/will be:

The last few weeks have been focused on the iPhone app and API. I'm guessing the next few weeks will be focused on keeping the site up (it's already gone down once today because of traffic) and working on the overall speed of the site (that's what I'm working on right now).

But after that, Privacy is the next major item on our todo list.

yay! i'm also thrilled about the new logo.

I know right? I wanted to be manly about it but that little Penguin just melted my heart.

If anyone wants to know more about how the Penguin logo was designed, Alex (the designer) has a great blog post here:

http://blog.iso50.com/2010/03/10/plancast-penguin-developmen...

Though I am working as a competitor in the same segment of the market. I am glad that they secured fund and working on the new product.

Let's all make something that people want.

Congrats to Jaymon (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Jaymon) and Mark for building a kick-ass service!

i havent really started using plancast yet (theres not enough of a community in miami trying it). I will say, it's one of those things that is useful, has a point, and really could crossover (unlike foursquare imho). I'm very very bullish on the product. congrats on the funding!

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