Hunter Knoche

🏔️ Building @trymatterhorn: Letterboxd for the places you've been. Track, rate, share your travels. Waitlist ↓

[Hunter Knoche @hunterknoche]

there's a Letterboxd for movies and a Goodreads for books. now there's one for travel. the waitlist just opened 🏔️

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@taesdawn26 Just wait til @trymatterhorn comes out 👀 you can do the same for travel.

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@Damina_Dee_ To each their own😂

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Discover, save & rate every trip on your bucket list. Join the waitlist: https://t.co/fsnC19LJbY

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Your bucket list is a note you have not opened since January. Somewhere in it is the trip you have talked about for years. Matterhorn gives that list a real home. It launches this fall, and the waitlist is live.

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Unpopular travel opinion: when you go matters more than where you go. Torres del Paine in February and Torres del Paine in July are two different places. Timing is the most underrated decision in travel.

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Two years of building, and the beta keeps teaching me things I could not have learned alone. Testers find bugs where I thought Matterhorn was bulletproof. Every fix sharpens the version you will get this fall.

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Last call to be early. Everyone who joins the waitlist before Matterhorn's launch goes public is a founding member to me. You believed in this thing before you could download it. I will remember that list.

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The waitlist is open until we go public. Join now and you are in from day one: https://t.co/fsnC19LJbY

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You have a rating for every movie you watched this year. You have a rating for zero of the trips you took. The best week of your year deserves better than a camera roll. That is the gap Matterhorn closes when it launches this year.

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Shoulder season is the biggest cheat code in travel. Same places, half the crowds, better light, cheaper flights. September and May beat July almost everywhere. What is the one place that is actually better in peak season?

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@markgurman Iconic line from the original iPhone launch.

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Shipping the Macs clear of the iPhone is the underrated part. Two launches in one week means one of them gets eaten, and it is never the one you wanted. Worth stealing even if your launch is a video and a link.

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It's the most Tim Cook thing ever to have his final product launch be a Mac chip refresh and then let his successor be the one to introduce the biggest new iPhone ever just two weeks later.

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The waitlist is here: https://t.co/fsnC19LJbY

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Matterhorn launches publicly in early September. If you are on the waitlist before then, you are a founding member in my book. You will have opinions, and I will actually read them. The next few weeks are the whole point of the last two years.

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Fixing it for myself first, and for you in early September. The waitlist is open: https://t.co/fsnC19LJbY

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I have been to a lot of cities I can barely tell you anything about. Not because the trips were forgettable. There was just nowhere to put the memory. Your camera roll knows where you stood. Nothing knows what you thought. That gap is why Matterhorn exists.

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Everyone plans trips around the big sights. The days you end up telling stories about are the ones where you planned nothing. Build in an empty day. It can often beat the itinerary.

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@Jessicalessin @aatilley Whatever you make of the last fifteen years, Cook's Apple is why one person with a laptop can ship to a billion phones and actually get paid for it. Two years into building mine, that is the part I do not take for granted.

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Beta week two. The bug list is doing the thing you hope it does: getting shorter faster than it gets longer. Fixes ship, another wave of testers comes in, and the app gets harder to break. Public launch is starting to feel real.

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@marclou The stuff that actually changes a trip is never what gets written down. Everyone saves the sunset photo, nobody logs that the tap water was rough or that the metro only takes cash. Two years into building a travel app and that gap is still the whole reason I started.