[noodle]

its a nice looking, easy to use application and the concept is good.

however, you're pushing your way into a market with a good number of existing applications. you need to make yourself stand out. the application is currently very simple. as you mentioned, you're going to be developing new features soon. pick what you do carefully and deliberately in order to make yourself stand out from the pack.

a few thoughts on features:

  - it took me a while to figure out how to delete places.  consider making it more clear, with a delete option on the city page where the "add pin" option used to be.
  - perhaps a friend suggester that bases suggestions off of cities that both people have visited.
  - perhaps a feature that allows you to also build routes/trips/itineraries where you can connect the cities that you've visited on a single trip.  
    then, you can visually display the itineraries (or browse other peoples') and write information on them beyond the information you write about the individual cities' reviews.
  - allow commenting on more things.  like individual users' profiles.  the user profile is a commonly traversed place.  allow for that interaction.
  - hook into wikipedia for the bigger cities.
  - add in some sort of landmark feature into individual cities that allows people to easily and quickly identify things to see and do that are special for the individual cities.  
    so that people don't have to read every review to see whats interesting.  allow people to add them onto the map by a right-click interface so that they will show up on the map of that single town only.
  - iphone application.
  - clickpass integration

what can you do to get more users?

  - consider building a facebook and myspace application and try and get your current userbase to make use of it and push it to their friends.
  - get to a point where you think your application is good, useful, and ready for people to really look at.
    then, ask your users nicely to spread the word about it.  send a short invitation to review the application to the larger web app and/or travel blogs.

hope these help. also, full disclosure, i think i might've applied a while ago to a job posting of yours on FS :) so, i've thought about what to do to improve the app in the past.

[missha]

Wow! A lot of food for though here! Thanks noodle!

The main problem with the Facebook application is that we would need to require a login and, since there are several facebook apps which does the same that currently Wolpy does, it would be a handicap for us.

By the way, I owe you an email about the FS offer!

[noodle]

no problem.

your application would do the same thing as some of the other apps, yes. but the point isn't to develop an awesome FB app, its to provide another outlet of passive advertising for your web app, bringing people in to try it and hopefully love it.