Challenges

The challenges just stepped up a notch today. With our date for coming online around the corner we are starting to realize just how much work we still have left. We are now in the phase of designing and determining how the intelligent aspects of our machine will work. We started by designing our own imaginary itineraries, as if we were potential visitors to South Africa who had no idea about where to find the things we were interested in. Through this exercise we determined the potential needs of the user and established how the machine would go about grouping and sorting points of interest according to the user's interests.

While this is going on, we are still soldiering on, adding new places to stay and finding out from social networks the grooviest nightspots for visitors who don't just want to have fun in the daytime.
We may be busy but our office is never boring. A recalcitrant dog and a steady stream of international visitors from the couch surfing network keep us on our toes when we aren't building the database and going on virtual fact finding missions.