Participate desirable: The Internet Business Guide Qype is the opinion of the users are asked
The bar at 103 Chestnut Avenue has not only fans: Internet User “bububu” finds it “totally unspectacular”. “Anchor” however, describes them as “unobtrusively stylish”. Also on the club at the White Trash Schönhauser Allee, the opinions differ: “At least the vodka cucumber makes White Trash on the tip,” said one user, another complains, after a concert there are still 5 euro entry pay for it .
To discuss the web on the side www.qype.de about restaurants, bars and other locations in the city. Qype is not just an online business directory, but a kind of city magazine, the Internet users themselves. Similar to Wikipedia can anyone, mitbewerten and mitkommentieren. Also, the indexing of so-called “tags”, search key words like “cocktails”, “Friedrichshain” or “child-friendly”, the authors themselves. A search function allows users to search for an Italian in Kreuzberg or non-smoking restaurants in the middle.
The diligent writer appear in a ranking as a “top Qyper”. User “Alchen” recently won with 121 contributions rank 66th Behind the pseudonym Alchen puts the 26-year-old Alexandra Karpov, dentistry student from Prenzlauer Berg. Recently, she wrote an article on the Municipal Neukölln: “You know that if you only out of curiosity where reingeht? With very stylish, antique atmosphere and a varied landscape sauna comes this Sunday-afternoon-therefore employment. Especially I remember the steam room wohnzimmergroße . a real breakthrough. Well just right for the cold season. ” About the Bahlsen Factory Sale in Tempelhof she wrote, “caution is the mother of all biscuit boxes. About It threatens consumer! Especially the cardboard product (kiloweise neutral packaged), I can recommend that the not so small packages.”
With up to five stars are the locations of the users. The Municipal given by Alexandra Best Guest, Bahlsen four stars. Their entries will turn from the other users rated: your text on Bahlsen have other twice with “helpful” and twice with “well written” graded.
As a “favorite place” Alexandra has the shop Waahnsinn Berlin Secondhand New expelled: “This was my Discoverer Spirit have sometimes rewarded. Whether with a coat from the 60s in very good condition, or, most recently, with a beautiful DDR Ceiling Lamp for only 70 Euro. The shop houses a wide selection of classic and sometimes shrill design lamps and furniture. prices may / must be negotiated. ” They even use Qype to inquire about restaurants, cafes and other locations in their residential area to inform it still does not know - and, according to the type - and-take mentality, which nutzerbasierten Web content until such work: “I want to The site not only to read the thoughts of others, but in return, other recommendations from my benefit. ”
User “ix_”, in the Top 20 of Qyper, pushing a “Notice need” for contributions. And the motivation, “perhaps the first to be the site describes.” Ix_ Schwenzel alias Felix, 37-year-old developer from Prenzlauer Berg, is not unknown in the Internet scene: With his blog wirres.net he was already in the top ten of the German blog charts. Among his more than 160 entries on Qype recommends his laundry and his pharmacy in the vicinity, and even the Tiergarten tunnel ( “the most hotly undiscovered construction of Berlin”). The anchor Klause he describes as “a very commendable dirt hole”, and he told his experience in a restaurant with Australian fleddrigen paper napkins, “something oberlehrerhaften” operation and the Spare-Ribs, consisting of “vertrocknetem, fasrigen Gewöll to brittle bones around.” With the plethora of entries there Schwenzel a large part of his daily life price. “I had even considered, my family doctor recommended, but that was me then too intimate.”
Always with the notebook on the go, judged Schwenzel the WLAN opportunities in cafes, such as the Manolo on Schönhauser Allee: “Lately there is a very, very lame Wlan only with the sales slip, on which a felt-achtzigstelliger code , which you enter into a web interface, and then 30 minutes free to surf and paralyzed, “said his last entry to this cafe early February.
Holders of localities that are their own restaurant or business to describe Qype want to be stopped, it must be disclosed. This game usually has the Café Berio in Schöneberg. In a damning critique of an author - “expensive” and “unfriendly” - have the responsibility of the cafe with a self-representation responds: “Cafe Berio is, of course, not the cheapest cafe in the Schöneberger Gay & Lesbian scene, but the best,” stands at the top this execution. The users are weiterdiskutieren.
The idea for Qype born when Stephan watches Bacher in Hamburg, a kindergarten was looking for his son - in vain for useful recommendations researched. Bacher saw demand watches and built with Qype a portal on the Internet User their personal tips and recommendations for the best addresses in the city could publish. “Wikipedia has shown that the intelligence work of the masses,” said Bacher watches. In contrast to Wikipedia go on Qype personal opinions - “and instead of words to places.”
So far, investors have the start-up with a “clear seven” amount financed. In future, advertising revenue at the company’s expense.
