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Local recommendations based on where you go. By Foursquare.
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MarsBot - Local recommendations based on where you go. By Foursquare.

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"Marsbot quietly pays attention to the places you bring your phone" What a huge change from the company that trained us to check-in and publicly declare our presence. Now they're automatically recording our location and offering us private value on that data
Maker
Yeah, but that's actually exactly what we do in Foursquare today. Marsbot's location engine is built off of the same technology that powers Foursquare.
Any early data on increased propensity to check-in with Marsbot? Really curious!
Doesn't seem to allow my UK number despite displaying +44. This is US only right now, right?
Same for france.
it is US only, right. A screen telling you that it is would've been nice..
it's available in the German store as well.
yup, it's gone.
Love this concept! I've been playing around with -Rex from The , and this sounds kinda similar. Let me in! Long-time Foursquare, Swarm (and Dodgeball) user here. ;)
Maker
Everyone is waitlisted now. I'll start taking people off once I finish answering questions!
First bot I've seen I might actually appreciate!
Damn, waitlisted. Looks neat, they definitely have the data to make this rock. Interested to see how this does as conversational ui-- I'd imagine this kind of functionality also being right at home coming from Swarm post check-in.
Maker
Nothing personal - everyone is waitlisted! We'll be starting to take people off soon.
This looks great - excited to try it out right now - we actually build something similar but it's just a phone number 😋 All the best guys!
What's happening in the background? When I say ' find a beer bar'. Right now, what's driving that one recommendation? Also, why launch now? It seems to have a ways to go to be super useful to users. What's going to be the process to improve?
Maker
If you search "find a beer bar", it'll run Foursquare's recommendation algorithm, and give you the top-listed result. You can text Marsbot and get a response (it's fun!) but we're not emphasizing that as the killer feature, since opening the Foursquare app would get you something similar. The main idea here is going to be how Marsbot begins to fill out your profile (in the notebook) automatically as you live your life, and then repackages notifications in a more lightweight and timely way. To improve over the coming weeks, we're going to look at the messages we're sending to users and find ways to increase the valuable ones and remove the less valuable ones.
Interesting chatbot app that leverages Foursquare data – and a cute mascot!
Internationalization fail. I may be currently located in a different country, but I have a US phone number. Why can't I change my country code?
Maker
SMS is really difficult to do internationally. Dealing with the regulations and pricing alone would be a nightmare! I'm the only engineer on this full time so we can't have that right away - we're going to test and iterate on what we've got first.
yes, but I WANT to use my US number! However I'm locked into the country code based on my geo-location. Why can't I choose my country code?
have to try this for awhile
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