WTF is Tangoroo?!

BY Tangoroo

Howdy! If you’re here, I’m guessing you have one question: WTF is Tangoroo®?

Tangoroo is a site that wants to help you go out and have fun. We’re building a community around our evolving platform that helps you provide each other with the information you need. And if you’ve ever been frustrated with those other massive review sites like TripCounselor, Welp, or Gurgle, we think you should give us a shot.  

But please pardon our dust, we’re still just a joey of a site trying to get started.

So what makes us the best and them the rest?

We give users reviews and ratings that mean something to them. Imagine you’re a film buff and there are two main film genres: movies about people leaving the Outback to go to New York and movies about people surviving in the Outback in a post-apocalyptic future. You hate one genre and love the other. When judging whether or not to watch a movie, wouldn’t you want to know what other people with similar tastes as your own thought about a movie without having your information polluted by the opinions of a bunch of uncultured cretins?

We are the TL;DR of review sites. We won’t waste your time with long narratives, revenge, and useless or outdated information that plagues the other sites. We get straight to the point: what you want to know and nothing else. And if we don’t have what you want to know, we’ll get it.

And that sounds awesome, right? But you’re probably wondering who is writing all these reviews and giving these ratings. The answer is you are. But don’t worry, we’re going to help! And we’re going to make it fun, with opportunities to win.

So in short, Tangoroo is your solution to review pollution.

We’re about you

Okay, great – Tangoroo can give you all this personalized content. How do we do it? Mind reading? Sorcery?

Well, it’s kind of like magic. A special kind of magic we like to call “common sense”. You help us by answering a few quick, easy questions and we help you by figuring out your Style and your Scene. And just like that, you’ll have access to ratings and content that’s created, filtered, and cultivated by people like you.

What’s your Style?

Everyone has their own style for hair, fashion, music, gangnam, etc. Your various styles are what make you amazing and unique.  

One style you might not have thought about before is your discovery and exploration Style. Put simply, this style describes how you find new things to do and then decide to do them or not: everything from how often you look for new things to do to how do you search for them and what kind of information do you want to know about them first.

Today we have five distinct styles that describe most people:

Adventurers are up for most adventures

Scientists demand research and peer reviews

Connoisseurs judge for themselves

Trailblazers dare to go where few have gone before

Independents do their own thing

Which one are you? Register with Tangoroo to find out!

Just Press to Play

This is a super important button. Remember it. Do you need to see it again? Here you go:

You see, when you’re part of the TangoCroo and go somewhere that’s on our site, you’ll see this little button on its page. Press

and you’ll find yourself playing a Tangocache.

What is this madness? Well, most people don’t like writing reviews. And most reviews are just awful (not any reviews you’ve ever written, of course… we’re talking about everyone else… your reviews have all been masterpieces). So we’re never going to ask you to write a review. Instead, we want you to play little sets of games we call Tangocaches.

These are quick, easy, and fun, and the more you play, the more opportunities you’ll have to win prizes! But most importantly, as you play them, you’ll be providing rating and review information to your fellow TangoCroo to help them discover new things to do.

Remember, it looks a little exactly like this:

Leveling up your ratings

So now you have a good idea of how our reviews and ratings are different. But we aren’t quite done leveling up your experience yet. Once you’ve joined the TangoCroo and you have a Style, you’re going to see the Tangoroo Quad.

Put simply, the Quad is four squares. And with each rating out of 5 stars you see on Tangoroo, you’re going to see one of those squares highlighted. That square tells you whether your peers felt the activity met or exceeded their expectations for it and whether or not they felt it was a good value.

Pardon the dust of 2020 2021

Okay, you know it’s 2021. We know it’s 2021. And we know that you know it’s 2021. So, we also know that you might have had to cancel or postpone some incredible travel plans recently. And if and when you do go out and have fun, whether you travel somewhere to do it or not, planning and preparing is trickier than it used to be.

We want to help make this a little easier too, which is why you’ll find the information we know about Covid-19 safety requirements on the page of every place we review. And you’ll be able to report the safety requirements you experience at different places in the Tangocaches as well.

The DFW area is our home base and so our focus is on Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. We’re working hard to grow our coverage, but for now we’re trying to find cool, unique things you can do around North Texas and on day and weekend trips from North Texas.  

Needless to say our ambitions are global. And we hope you’ll join us on this journey.

So what are you waiting for?  Hop to it!