MarsBot

Local recommendations based on where you go. By Foursquare.

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Local recommendations based on where you go. By Foursquare.

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Super interesting to see Foursquare expand its app ecosystem over the past few years. They're sitting on a ton of a useful, proprietary data that can be used interesting ways (see this article on how Foursquare predicted Chipotle's sales based on foot traffic). @dens - why not build Marsbot functionality into the OG Foursquare app or Swarm?

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10yr ago

Momento 3

@marissachacko @cdohertyk @rrhoover @dens Notifications are dead, long live SMS! I dread the thought of the 'Messages' app becoming our new 'inbox'.

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10yr ago

Marsbot for AirPods

Maker

@oliverwaters @marissachacko @cdohertyk @rrhoover @dens The use of SMS was hotly debated here at Foursquare. I find SMS on the iPhone much more straightforward than push notifications, but we all have busy Messages App, so we designed something that fits in really well in terms of how often it messages you. We'll be listening closely over the coming weeks to see how this aspect of Marsbot is received.

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10yr ago

Deliveroo Widget

Couldn't this service simply be a number that you text instead of having to download a dedicated app?

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10yr ago

Marsbot for AirPods

Maker

@tollerton It is a number that you text, but we need the app in order to get your location.

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10yr ago

Stripe

@tollerton It's based on passively tracking where you go so needs an app running on your phone

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10yr ago

Deliveroo Widget

@maxsklar I was thinking more like Foursquare for Slack where the user would manually mention their location in the conversation. E.g “Mezcal cocktails in East Village”

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10yr ago

Raycast

Hunter

@tollerton that's how it was in the beta. Alas you can't give SMS apps your location!

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10yr ago

Humans Not Invited

@tollerton like your thinking :)

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10yr ago

Please, if you're gonna force users to verify using phone numbers, make sure you've covered all the country formats! The app detects automatically that I'm in Denmark (+45), but then it demands a XX-XX-XX format - you're missing two digits (I.e. XX-XX-XX-XX).

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10yr ago

Marsbot for AirPods

Maker

@vukovicnikola This is a very limited release right now - we're only accepting users in the United States.

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10yr ago

@maxsklar I think you should give non-US users some indication of this in the app. Right now it just seems like it's broken + builds wrong expectations

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10yr ago

Marsbot for AirPods

Maker

@vukovicnikola Yeah, it shouldn't have been in the non-US app stores. Sorry about that!

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10yr ago

Spot

@vukovicnikola same problem with 🇨🇭, +41 XX XXX XX XX

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10yr ago

Airtable

Love the idea of accessing 4sq data in a new, more lightweight way. Hopefully there'll be invites for Product Hunt users 😉

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10yr ago

Neat idea ... Is there any data attached to back up a recommendation?

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10yr ago

Marsbot for AirPods

Maker

@roryoo Each recommendations comes with a link to the Foursquare page. You'll also be able to type "MORE" or "MORE DETAILS" and Marsbot will give you information on when it's open, the address, what people like there, etc. In the future, maybe we can support more questions.

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10yr ago

Emisare Inc

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?

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10yr ago

Marsbot for AirPods

Maker

@coreyo 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.

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10yr ago

Block Republic

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?

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10yr ago

Marsbot for AirPods

Maker

@thomas_howard1 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.

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10yr ago

Block Republic

@maxsklar 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?

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10yr ago

Plain text back and forth yet still iPhone only 😖 Was hoping part of the bot revolution would reduce the barriers to developing cross- platform first apps. Much less to consider when it comes to different design language, form factors, device specs, etc... but alas here we are...

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10yr ago

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