With both the co-founders of Travelstormer now residing in Sydney we can have board meetings in places like this:

No really, Bondi beach is way too hot a place to do anything serious like run a business, so we will be working very hard indoors to bring you a beta version of TS very soon.

I’m going to take this chance to introduce a friend and partner of ours, Harmonypark.

This team of web app gurus are pushing their fantastic expense-management product Expensure into fruition with new features for new times. Most notably, Paypal support is going to mean you can pay back all those IOU’s with one click, right from within Expensure.

This functionality is hot off the Paypal press and makes use of a spanking new API allowing cool new things to be done with a well established product.

What’s exciting for us here at Travelstormer, is that we’re being fed Expensure’s coolness through integration with it’s API, so you can use Expensure’s tools right from within Travelstormer.

“Expensure looks at who you owe money to, who owes you money, and what money these other people owe to each other. Expensure then applies a Circular Debt Resolution™ algorithm to work out which debts cancel each other”

Its cool features like this that save you time by cutting back on transactions between your group, as well as handling that embarrassing task of telling your mates to pay you back!

In keeping with staying on the level and open about what we’re doing here with Travelstormer, I thought I’d share this email from Colin the other co-founder to myself, on July 28, 2008.

“Inspiration for the idea came from the hassle we are going through trying to organise a skiing trip to Japan for 5-10 people….i.e several emails each day on what dates people are available, what accommodation people want to stay in, what resort to go to, what flights are the best etc etc, all with links attached. I now have a folder of dozens of emails and each time I want to find anything have to search through them to find which one has the link or information I am looking for.”

The powerpoint masterpiece that was attached caught my attention instantly, and soon after we were in a frenzy of ideas about where this idea could lead and how it would find its way in the vast ocean that is online travel.

After finding a direction we wanted to take, Triphub took a dive into the deadpool.
While we were barely wet at this stage, we new exactly how we were going to do it differently.

Hi there. I was thinking we’d like to look back on this post one day and get all nostalgic and teary-eyed, but for now its just a quick introduction to Travelstormer because the rest of our site is in production, and it’s the only platform we’ve got right now where I can write more than 140 characters.

In a few words, Travelstormer is a tool to aid in the decision-making and organisation of travel planning for groups. The idea is that people use Travelstormer from the earliest possible  stage of their trip, being the brainstorming or ‘Travelstorming’ phase as we call it in our camp.

From the initial decision of where your going, through to the specifics of dates, times and group expenses, Travelstormer will be there to do your dirty work.

(However – I have nothing to back this up with since we are currently in the middle of development, so believe what you will, and do come back if you’re the slightest bit interested because we’re really psyched about this)