HI Product Hunt!
Let me introduce you to our app. Dollop is an app that lets you give a real treat to a friend in the special moments big and small. They’ll get a real gift instantly via text and can redeem at a participating location of choice.
It’s quite easy to use. You can select the treat you want to send to your friend and send it via text message. Your friend would be able to redeem the treat at a venue close to her by scanning the code the cashier will provide.
Dollop offers a unique mobile payment backend which facilitates easy merchant sign on while making mobile gifting easier for customers.
I hope you guys like it. It’s currently available in New York and coming soon to San Francisco.
@leftearpod Thanks for your feedback Jake! A lot of people use it to send it to a friend when they are simply thinking about them. One interesting scenario that a user said they gifted someone was when he was running late to a coffee meeting at one of our merchants and sent one ahead to a date!
@leftearpod I used it to randomly send ice cream to my girlfriend's best friend who I hadn't seen in a while. The level of appreciation was priceless and totally worth it. I would never have sent a big gift, because that would have been weird. So this is really a great way to show people that you care.
Nice work, Anne. I've always been fascinated with this space and was lucky enough to work in it at Square with Square Wallet and other products. I found the biggest hurdle with products like this is seller-side availability, which you can make up for volume in the short term by signing with boutique merchants to a point. Then, for scale (assuming you want to go that route) is to make strategic partnerships with hardware providers that unlock large merchant cohorts, but the downside there is quality of service. It's a long road, but definitely exciting. Good luck!
@davidbyttow That was one of the challenges that we found as well! We solved that problem through making merchant sign up easy. Now all they need is a sticker at their register that the user can scan! Since we made this switch, we've seen a boost in venues and we have about 50 venues in NY.
@joshdance That's a great question! We help out retailers by allowing their customers to not just share reviews about their store, but actual items from them. It's about bringing more foot traffic to their stores through the social and organic gesture of gift giving! Sign up for merchants is also very easy--it takes 5 minutes and a sticker at their register!
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