Online Marketing

Are you listed on TripAdvisor yet? Are you listed on TripAdvisor yet?

You now have your New Year’s resolution! First things first - why should a tour or an activity operator be listed on TripAdvisor? Isn’t it meant for Hotels? (more…)

Travel Website

Top 10 questions travelers ask before booking a tour Top 10 questions travelers ask before booking a tour

What are the top 10 questions travelers ask before they book a tour with you? Most of you will be able to answer this in your sleep! So we are not going to tell you something that you already know....

Fun at Work

How we converted an MBA to a kickass developer How we converted an MBA to a kickass developer

From being yet another engineer+MBA to a kickass developer. Ashwin has truly come a long way. (more…)

Technical

AngularJS – How to get a directive & controller to “talk” AngularJS – How to get a directive & controller to “talk”

We’ve been building Single Page Apps” (SPAs) with AngularJS over the last few months and have been blown away with what it enables us to achieve. Our front-end code was a stinking pile of jQuery DOM manipulation, ad-hoc data attributes,...

Fun at Work Technical

The Ruby Hackathon Roundup The Ruby Hackathon Roundup

48 Hours. 4 Coders. 1 Awesome Web-app. Last month we hosted a Ruby Hackathon over the weekend. We had a truckload of applications from college students, working professionals, college professors (!), and one application from Gujarat! We weren’t geared to host such...

Online Marketing

Brilliant creative by AdRoll.com Brilliant creative by AdRoll.com

Brilliant creative by AdRoll.com — a re-targeting platform for online ads. It gets the message across AND demonstrates their product! PS: I had visited their website to research something on Facebook re-targeting.

Technical

An Unpluggd Demo – Quantified! An Unpluggd Demo – Quantified!

lot of people have asked me whether demoing at Unpluggd last year was useful for Vacation Labs. As a B2B product in the travel space I didn't expect potential customers to be at the event. (more…)

Fun at Work

MakeMyTrip taking dig at Cleartrip MakeMyTrip taking dig at Cleartrip

Spotted this awesome comeback from MakeMyTrip. Context: Cleartrip’s obvious and tad unoriginal dig at MakeMyTrip on April Fool’s Day (more…)

Technical

Installing mysql2 gem on Mac OSX Installing mysql2 gem on Mac OSX

Just spent 20 mins trying to install the mysql2 gem on my Mac OSX dev machine. Here’s the solution for anyone else who’s stuck with the same problem. (more…)