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Around the app of the future?
4 points by Mrzapart on June 19, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
Ive dicovered an amazing app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/around-find-friends-nearby/id1366546491?ls=1&mt=8 have you ever used? What do you think of this concept



This feels more like a show HN, so I'll treat it accordingly.

The main image has to go. The two sides of the image don't line up properly and the effect is quite jarring.

Location based apps like this always disappoint me. I remember Color. When I first heard of it, I was so excited. I love music, had a few festivals ahead of me, and it just seemed like a perfect app. So, I installed it, tried it many times, never saw anyone else and gave up.

And, knowing what I know about marketing, honestly, it's hard to get excited enough about an app like this to even install it. I'm often an early adopter, but with these apps, if I'm too early, I'll likely never use it again.

It's tough. In theory, it's such a good idea and I suspect it could work as a white label networking app for conferences. But as a mass B2C product, honestly, I wouldn't even try it.


I had this exact idea (literally) and I guess I was thinking too much about how to get that initial set of users way too early and ended up quitting before even finishing the development of the app. This developer is at the stage where he/she should actually work on that now and I wish them all the best! :)


I wanted to use it but you have to sign in with facebook, and I dont use facebook :(




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