I'm the CTO at Voo! I'm super excited with our new app. We had a lot of fun experimenting with the new iMessage Applications and iOS10. I'm here to answer any questions about what we're doing. Our goal is to provide the best way for people to plan directly from within their actual tools, in this case iMessage.
A bit of personal background, I'm a technology enthusiast, particularly everything that touches programming. I love react and react-native. This app is actually all made up with react-native! So if you have any questions about the technology we used I'll be happy to answer! You can email me at hugo@letsroundup.com.
Here's a photo taken during the development, when you develop on beta software, using the Force always help!
I've used a lot of products that attempt to get me together with friends. The new beta is awesome.
I talked to the founder and he's updating new things in the app that will make the next version even better.
This is going to be the future of o-authing calendars. I think Meekan was the first step, this is the 2nd layer of abstraction and a new type of user behavior that is likely to be embraced for its capability to be impromptu and still hit the calendar as an event.
@datarade Thanks a lot for the hunt. Much appreciated. We wanted a simple and fast way to get people together while integrating smart analytics and integrations for places people love going to. iOS 10 gave us the perfect platform to do that with the iMessage apps. Since it's within people's workflow it removes the messiness of convincing friends to join another chat platform. As a nice sidenote, Apple is featuring us on the front page of the App Store for the iOS 10 launch so we're really humbled by that. Full Calendar integration is coming very soon. Which calendars would you like supported?
@cturlica gcal and as well outlook. I have friends in legacy industries and they swear by outlook. Not sure if it's the same standard format at large... but yeah just supporting outlook and Google calendar would be great.
@mirceap Thanks Mircea! Should be out as soon as Apple starts pushing out iOS10 -- should be about now lol It's all built in React Native as well so we went a bit all out. What did you think of the new design?
@cturlica Much cleaner than before! Looking forward to a Facebook Messenger version of Voo, hopefully it will be technically feasible soon :D
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This looks great and as Kumar said there are a ton of these get-together apps that have popped up but none that I've seen that work straight from iMessage. This is a game changer I'm excited to put it to use. When are you adding the full calendar integration?
@alex_tatem Thanks a lot Alex, we're actively working on that. It's already live on our side so 2-3 days it should be out. What do you think of being able to suggest dates to your friends? Yoni above was asking about that. Would that be useful to you?
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@cturlica yes, definitely useful I find myself always sending 3 dates / times with people when arranging to meet up. It depends, the use case if this is with close buddies I'm meeting up with for drinks or if I am arranging a lunch meeting with someone. I could even see suggesting locations as a cool thing in the future.
@alex_tatem Alex, we spent over a year perfecting our group recommendation engine. You can follow your favorite places in the city and get smart recommendations of where to go depending on the people in the group and the time you want to do something. You should try it ;) We also integrate Opentable, Groupon, Mogl, Eventbrite, Ticketfly for your places.
@laur_ion Perhaps it's people that you intersected with in the past. We can monitor your phone sensors and show you people that you can grab coffee with =D
Love the innovative approach to getting together plus iOS 10's new iMessage functionality. Voo might've just cracked the nut and I'm excited to use this!
Great product, great team, only a matter of time before they get acquired or IPO!
@nickatloot Glad you find it useful Nick! We're working hard to make a good product for you guys. What else would you like to see in the product to make you like it even more?
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