Prapta.com - Not your average Social Networking
April 10, 2007
Intowit.com sits down with another start-up to get an inside look at what makes them tick. Prapta.com is truly an original idea and I think all who read this should go and try it out! It’s free and it’s enlightening. It really makes you want to ‘experience’ life and what it has to offer. Not only that but you should see what people have accomplished and the odd things that they have done.
What is Prapta? (A general description)
Prapta is a social network with over one million life experiences in which you can check off your “Life List”. It also has blogs, profiles, instant messaging, email, chat, and soul mate matching which compares your experiences against others’. You get ‘Life Points’ for marking off completed experiences. For example, if you have been skydiving, you get 100 points. If you have eaten an apple, you get 5 points. The points are determined by a complicated algorithm which is continually being improved.
What was your thought process behind starting the site?
The founders were tired of places like MySpace because they were filled with many spammers, random strangers, annoying ads, and fake profiles. We wanted to create a close-knit community with a clean interface, free of spam, where you will feel at home with while being useful at the same time by using our unique experience checklist.
How long has Prapta been up and running and how many users do you currently have?
Terapad In…Wordpress out? A Short Interview with TP
April 5, 2007
Before you comment….YES we do realize that we use Wordpress, This is an article to inform users that there are other options when starting a blog (or switching). Good ones too. In the end you be the judge.
So, how did Terapad get started?
Well, originally the Terapad engine was used by our developers to build corporate website for small businesses. As it’s a centralized framework, it allowed us to progressively add more and more features to our offering, such as online shop, forums, blog, image gallery, forums, etc. while keeping the cost very low for our customers.
Eventually we realized we had something very different on our hands and opened it up to the public, including both individuals and SMBs with ‘hands-on’ skills. So far the feedback has been fantastic and a lot of the features requested by the users have made it in the product.
Why did Terapad decide to venture into the blogging market when the
general public has access to many tried and tested applications?
Users see content as content, regardless if it’s a blog post, multimedia, or an item they want to sale. So far, the applications provided to manage an individual’s or small business online presence have been very fragmented: a Wordpress blog, a Flickr gallery, a PhpBB forum, an Ebay shop and so on.
To reproduce what you could do with a single Terapad site, you would need 8 different applications, each with their own login, design, learning curve and of course inherent cost. Terapad integrates all these elements under one roof, for free, with one simple interface and the look and feel of your choice. Blogging is just one of the things you can do with Terapad, but you could disable that module entirely if you wanted to.
So, to answer your question directly, we did not ‘choose’ to venture in the blogging market, we just added a blogging module to our existing software platform. The bloggers did the rest. We’re happy to see so many bloggers choose our service, and we have recently added import features from Wordpress and LiveJournal.
