GigPark Blog

Welcome

Today Noah, Paul and I are excited to tell you a little bit about the startup weâ€™re building:

Whatâ€™s it called?
GigPark

What will GigPark do?
GigPark will help you:
> recommend your favorite service providers to friends and family
> instantly get service recommendations from people you trust
> build your service business through word-of-mouth

Who will use GigPark?
You, we hope.

People like you and I will be able to quickly and easily tell all of our friends about our favorite service providers: our wonderful hairdresser, accountant or interior designer. And when weâ€™re looking to hire a new service provider, weâ€™ll be able to see if our friends recommend anyone. Better service recommendations from people we trust will mean we all receive better service.

If you are a service provider, GigPark will help you attract new customers by amplifying all of the great word of mouth already generated by your happy existing customers.

Why are we building GigPark?
Because we love great service and we believe great service providers should be celebrated and rewarded.

Why did we choose the name?
Well, a gig is a fun name for a job or a service you provide, and what better place than a park to share recommendations with your friends about great gigs? Makes perfect sense, doesnâ€™t it?

Watch this space for more news and, in a few months, invitations to give GigPark a try before we release it to the public.

This is only the first step on a long road for GigPark but we’d like to thank everyone who has helped us so much already. Thanks for the advice, the thoughtful critiques and the encouragement.

Posted on March 14th, 2007 by Pema. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.

20 Comments

Introducing GigPark « SCHOOLBOY ERROR Said

[...] friends about great gigs? Makes perfect sense, doesnâ€™t it? In the future you can check out the GigPark blog (looking a little sparse at the moment ) for more news and, in a few months, invitations to give [...]

March 14th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Ian Barr Said

Interesting concept guys - can’t wait to see how it unfolds. Best of luck.

March 14th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Jim Rudnick Said

nice one guys! I too await with bated breath!
:-)
J

March 15th, 2007 at 9:21 am
Michael Levin Said

very cool - best of luck guys

March 15th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Rick Camilleri Said

Well done mates, change the world !!!

March 15th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Efe Cakarel Said

I’ve been looking for a service like this. right on.. good luck..

March 15th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Marc Lostracco Said

I’m looking forward to the day when I see GigPark stickers on sanctioned business windows everywhere! Great idea — can’t wait to see it in action.

March 15th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Pema Said

Thanks very much for your nice comments Marc, Efe, Rick, Michael, Jim and Ian.

Noah, Paul and I are extremely excited about the next year and it is fantastic to have so much support. We’re looking forward to creating a great service for you!

March 15th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Jordy Koski Said

Guys, looking forward to checking out the service when it launches - best of luck with the ramp up.

Jordy

March 16th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Mark Kuznicki Said

This is great! All the best and check in with the TorCamp Sype chat swarm from time to time to update us on your progress.

March 16th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
David Phillips Said

Can’t wait to use it! Also can’t wait to stay in the horribly massive cottage complex that you will get from Gigpark being a vulgar success.
David

March 20th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Sandy Hunter Said

Nicely done gents. I can’t wait to be recommended as…well, maybe i will wait for a while. But lovely to see this bird lift offa the ground.

March 21st, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Tony Said

Nifty.

Will this be a latent semantic indexing (or similar technique) sort of recommendations, or a more blunt select * from friends left join recommendations where service = ‘choice’ list?

I would go for with the former, looking for people with similar service preferences. Otherwise it’s much easier to just ask my existing friends (who don’t always share my choices anyways), instead of getting them to sign up and actually use a new website.

March 26th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Paul Dowman » Blog Archive » Announcing GigPark Said

[...] check out the GigPark blog for more [...]

April 1st, 2007 at 11:51 am
Stephen Friedman Said

Pema,

Can’t wait to see it unfold. Please keep me in the loop.

Stephen

April 3rd, 2007 at 9:40 am
Steve Munday Said

Great idea guys!
Its such a simple idea it makes you wonder why no one’s done it before. But the simplest ideas are the best, so I’m confident this will be huge.

April 11th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Steve Hulford Said

Sounds pretty cool guys. Good luck with it. We will be watching.

Steve

April 11th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Jocelyn Said

Hello NOAH and PEMA! I was wondering what you both were up to….. Good luck !

April 26th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Michael Cuddihy Said

Good luck with the new adventure.

May 8th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Ron Freiman Said

A very interesting and creative concept.
Noah, I wish you and the gigpark group the best of luck in this venture.

September 24th, 2007 at 2:40 pm