Ptumpa.com - Helping Travelers Find A Ride

Ptumpa.com is a site for travelers looking for a place to crash or a ride. Create a user name and you can search for rides and places to crash. On the homepage there are a “rides” and “beds” sections that list the recent posts. The posts include information about the person who submitted the post, where the ride is originating, where it is going, where the bed in located, the maximum amount of time you can spend there, and the cost if any. If you want to be helpful you can offer a ride or bed. If you are looking for a ride or bed you can search these sections or search for a user. When you are looking for a user you can use filters such as gender age, and country of residence. Users can also post their travel plans for other people to take a look at. Ptumpa.com is a great site for travelers who need some help or want to discover new travel ideas.

“create and share your travel, find cool people to go.”

Ptumpa has an attractive interface. The site is easy to navigate and doesn’t have any clutter. Ptumpa is well organized and has all of its categories clearly marked. The google map is always a useful feature for visualizing travels and routes. It is nice that as a user you can add a post to your watch lists so you can easily monitor it. It is also useful that you can look through users by country.

There are many traveling sites such as CouchSurfing.com, which help travelers find places to stay among other traveling issues. How will Ptumpa.com deal with the competition posed by similar traveling sites? It would be nice if Ptumpa.com included a review section that posted reviews about hostels, cafes, museums, etc…