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Show HN: Meet me for lunch

44 pointsby 12y agocolunchers.com
18 comments
12y agoHN ↗

I have been wanting this exact app for years. I have no idea why no one built it yet. Unfortunately I'm an Android user haha

12y agoHN ↗

The app is the easy bit. It needs a community.

12y agoHN ↗

Why does it have to be an app? I don't have an iPhone and don't intend to get one, so I can't even try out your project.

12y agoHN ↗

A mobile app makes sense for one reason: geo-location. Your phone knows where you are, so it can find lunches instantly without having to do anything. And that's the one thing you keep with you on your way to lunch, you don't carry your laptop around usually :-)

EDIT: also, notifications are important, you want to know whether your lunch is on or not. Emails would work too, but that's kind of old school.

12y agoHN ↗

True. Don't take this the wrong way: As a programmer, I would also add that it was a pleasure to work with a real UX API again, and not have to deal with HTML's crazy issues, centering text, jQuery, browser incompatibilities, etc. I always had a <div> that didn't quite work the way I wanted.

In the end, a native app looks much better for fewer lines of code (assuming you can stand Objective-C).

12y agoHN ↗

But if it was built in html, js, etc it'd be accessible on all platforms for far fewer lines code than building separate apps.

12y agoHN ↗

MVP priority list for a calendaring application:

#1 UI looks pretty #2 Functionality is avaialble to potential users.

12y agoHN ↗

It would also be handy if it worked without location services... just let me enter a suburb/ city.

12y agoHN ↗

Too few categories.

I don't want to meet venture captialists. I want to meet other marketers, authors, and artists.

12y agoHN ↗

You can create your own categories (there is an add button).

12y agoHN ↗

Orly.

I only scrolled through the startup portion and then said fuck it.

I'll have to give it another shot.

12y agoHN ↗

Not available on the Google app store? Bummer.

12y agoHN ↗

I would actually pay for an Android version

12y agoHN ↗

I like the general concept;

It would be great as a web app too. I'd like to post on my linkedIn / personal sites / profiles:

"Want to meet me for lunch? join me via colunchers.com/########"

They could see what public lunches I was hosting / attending . Or create a lunch and invite me.

12y agoHN ↗

Reminds me of the messages you get from camgirls on Tinder...