*Drums, Lights, Camera and…. ACTION!!*
Since this is our first post, I would like to introduce ourselves a little bit… and to tell you how PlanetRate.com, (the place to rate, review and share your opinions) was created.
On a sunny day of late April 2007, my best friend (currently my partner & co-founder) and I, finished our last days of University life. We both just graduated from Computer Science at the University of Windsor and let me tell you, we were pretty excited!! This was the moment that every student’s dream came true: WE GRADUATED!
We asked ourselves.. “What now?” We thought to find a job (thanks Jeff for your support), move out of the city, in other words making a change in life. Gurel told me he had an idea for few years to develop a rating/review website in Europe. An online community, dedicated to provide the necessary tools for people to share their opinions and gain useful information. Great! Now, we had a goal, a possibility to change something. Without wasting more time, we started brainstorming for a website name and a domain to register. It didn’t take long until we came up with the name: RateMyEurope.
At the end of the day we accomplished quite few things: we moved Gurel to his new house, we decided to be self-employed and we came up with a name for our website.
It didn’t take long until we thought: “Why not the whole world”? So we came up with few new names, but it took us few days before we finally decided: PlanetRate.com
In meantime, Gurel has moved again… this time a nicer place and a more central location: Downtown Windsor. Soon enough, his new place became “PlanetRate’s Headquarters”, like we like to name it 
We have spent countless sleepless nights there working late, designing, writing code and sharing ideas.
In late January 2008, we have finally incorporated our business: PlanetRate Inc. We celebrated with more work, design and writing even more code. We were on the roll
We made PlanetRate.com public on August 14 2008 for anyone to visit, rate, review, get informed and share their opinions on anything. It was a very exciting day that paid off our hard work.
PlanetRate is not any kind of review/rating website. The site is totally free of charge, fun, and easy to use. It allows you to rate, review, and share your opinions with other users while accessing their opinions on the quality of any product, place, or specific interest you may have.
With its broad category base, in-depth rating system, and user-personalized rating profiles, PlanetRate.com is a great online information resource, buying experience guide as well as a social networking site. There are many different categories on the site such as fashion, business, education, music, sports, travel and more, and each of them include various items for you to rate or review. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, simply add an item. If you want to know what others think or want to share your own views, take a look at PlanetRate.com for yourself.
Phew.. I made it through my first post! Oh yes, almost forgot.. I am George and thanks for your time! We can’t wait to hear your comments and feedback (good or bad).
“… and… CUT”.
