Starting today, we will release a weekly update summarizing all the “behind the scene” action at Please.com. Sharing this will give you an idea of what we’re currently working on and what to expect from us in the future.

Feel free to reach out to us if you have any doubts or suggestions regarding the product. We’re all ears when it comes to feedback. So without further ado, let’s begin our first update.

Last week the development team focused on the usability of trips and services. At Please.com, ‘services’ act as building blocks of our entire platform because many features are built on top of a service or are directly related to a service.

Just to be clear, currently, when we say ‘services’ it means accommodations, activities, and meals. We are planning to provide trips, tours, transfers, events, ride sharing, event tickets and more as a service in the near future.

This week the process of adding a service was streamlined. Now users can add a service, directly from the homepage. The team also made some tweaks in the service structure.

By the end of the week, it was decided that we will not only add more services to the platform but add additional experiences as well — like meeting the locals for rock climbing or joining a pub crawl in the city.

List of features that were added:

1. The Trip Page was made editable: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159063251

2. Users can now add a service to any day of their trip with a minimal amount of clicks. To make this possible, the information is now available when a user hovers the mouse around that service or day:

https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159062647

3. External users can only view a trip not edit it: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159267392

4. On “Edit Trip” page, tags are now editable: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159063969

5. Trip owners can edit more details on Trips: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159063518

6. Users can edit the duration of days for their trip: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/2104508/stories/159078714

List of bugs that were fixed:

1. Locations were not showing on search results and main page.

Fixed.

https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159228312

2. “Book Now” button on services did not redirect users to log in.

Fixed.

https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159360586

3. Service URLs were missing when the cart was clicked.

Fixed.

https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159302048

4. Map was not showing the correct location of a trip.

Fixed.

https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/159228722

This week the dev team will re-build a wide range of service structures that fits a variety of services, like trips, tours, transfers, hotel accommodation, events, ride hauling, tickets, etc.

Mobile app development will also begin this week.

Marketing

The marketing team is focused on gaining visibility through content syndication and distribution. We are focused on highly-credible sites that focus on travel, business and crypto technology.

Social media marketing and community outreach are already in full swing.

New team member

Tyler Buchea joined our development team last week. He is a Full Stack and React native engineer who will kick off the mobile app development. We’re super excited to have Tyler in our team and looking forward to working with him.

We’re hiring

If you think you have what it takes to make Please.com a successful product, we’d love to speak with you. Please write to the CEO, Romain Barissat at Hello@please.com

Until next week!