This weekend, Telegram's CEO and Founder Pavel Durov was arrested when he landed in France. There's a hundred news articles about it if you'd like to learn the specifics. Here's a story about it from Wired: www.wired.com/story/telegram-ceo-pavel-durov-arrest/ You might be wondering what this story has to do with travel, or Travel Massive. If you're a member of Travel Massive, you've probably heard of Telegram or use it. It's a chat app similar to WhatsApp, Messenger, LINE (popular in Thailand, Japan), KakaoTalk (Korea), WeChat (China), etc. If you travel to parts of Central Asia, Russia, or Indonesia you'll probably need Telegram to keep in touch with locals you meet. In terms of community building, Telegram excels at group chat. For example — we've got an Almaty Travel Massive Telegram group that is very active with our community in Kazakhstan. I'm a regular user of Telegram and keep in touch with a few people on it from other countries, thanks to the in-built translat...

Hey Travel Massive Community, My name is Martin, and I'm navigating the exciting yet challenging journey of being a first-time cofounder and product leader. We're currently in the process of refining the second iteration of our MVP. As we prepare for our beta launch, our primary goal is to nail down product-market fit. From what I've gathered, product-market fit seems to encompass two major areas: our vision (our definition of success and the unique value we aim to deliver to our users) as founders and the empirical data or benchmarks set by others who've successfully launched in similar markets. Here's where I like to gain more perspective from the Travel Massive Community: 1. Is this dual-sided approach to product-market fit consistent with your experiences? 2. For those who've journeyed through the startup landscape, in the travel space, how did you define and achieve product-market fit for your projects? 3. What metrics, feedback strategies, or milestones have you found crit...