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Andrew Farah@andrewfarah · CEO, Density
Product Hunt, I'm Cofounder / CEO. At first, we just wanted to know if our coffee shop was busy. Then we thought, how cool would it be to see a whole city moving from our phone? So that's what we're trying to do without scraping personally identifiable information (video surveillance, facial recog, etc). To get the data we're after you'd have to build and… See more
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Lindsay Martin@lindzora · i design / build stuff
@andrewfarah Cool product. I've been intrigued by this space for a while now & I've seen a lot of failed attempts. But this looks promising. Questions: Have you experienced any push back from merchants of popular venues more likely to have longer queues? I can see how this data would be valuable for venue-owners long-term, but initially are they afrai… See more
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Chris Becker@cbeck527 · Infrastructure Engineer, Warby Parker
@andrewfarah how does the app find locations? Does it hook into an external API like GMaps for Foursquare? When I was searching for a place to request, I was looking for some suggested places close to my location. An attribution line a la old style instagram: ) would make me sure that the data is accurate. See more
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Andrew Farah@andrewfarah · CEO, Density
@lindzora That's a really good question. Couple things. - Merchants have pretty crazy peaks and valleys; super busy for an hour then really quiet. They've told us they'd prefer a more even distribution throughout the day. Something we can do. - Coupa Cafe, one of our locations, actually asked for the "reverse Density" for his managers. They want notifica… See more
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Andrew Farah@andrewfarah · CEO, Density
@cbeck527 Welp... we should probably do attribution. Thanks for that! We backfill locations using Foursquare. And then when someone requests a location with that fun "slide to request" bit we store the location data ourselves and keep a running tally of how many votes for a place there have been. The cool thing is... this sort-of-straightforward / really … See more
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Luis Solano@luisobo · Lead Platform Engineer @ Pixable
@lindzora @rrhoover @andrewfarah Congrats, really interesting idea. I like the "reverse Density" idea in particular, I think it could play really well with ShopKeep. Have you looked in integrating with any Point of Sale?
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Andrew Farah@andrewfarah · CEO, Density
@lindzora @rrhoover @luisobo That's a good idea. Integration with a POS could also be a really good distribution strategy. Trade the data for distro... Come to think of it, I think I've met @olkie over at ShopKeep.
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Ben Redfield@benredfield · Co-Founder, Density
@luisobo @andrewfarah P.S. Thanks for all the work on Nocilla, used it extensively :)
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Shane V.@shanev · iOS @ TED, Developer of Drum Kit
@andrewfarah I'm guessing this is a wrapper around the Foursquare trending API? I've been missing the feature since they removed it from the app. I didn't realize the API was still around. They could bring it back at any point though!
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Ben Redfield@benredfield · Co-Founder, Density
@andrewfarah @shanev Hey Shane, it's currently using the Foursquare venue search API: https://developer.foursquare.com.... It does look like they still have a trending endpoint they support, though! https://developer.foursquare.com...
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Charlie Lawrance@charlielawrance · Founder Gecko²
@andrewfarah this is so awesome. Any plans to launch in the UK?
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Andrew Farah@andrewfarah · CEO, Density
@charlielawrance I hear there are lots of doorways in the UK. Some day...
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