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Looks interesting...my main concern with these apps is always battery life. My battery gets slammed even without location updates running in the background.
I just gave it a go and my battery didn't seem to drain any faster than usual. I can't wait till these guys make an Android version.
That is in the works as I type this. We're hoping to get it out as soon as possible!
Looks great guys, slick UI, intuitive, and something I have actually been thinking about for a while.
Hi, I'm one of the co-founders. Althought there will always be a certain level of battery drain from use of GPS hareware, we've done extensive research to intelligently balance location updates with energy consumption based on a number of context based factors.
been using it for about 30 minutes - and the battery life actually seems great
I like that I can watch as people arrive.

Nice to see a real time view rather than call people to find out how far off they are.

Would be awesome to see a large number of people descend on a big party or similar.

For a second I was really excited about this, until I realised I don't have an iPhone. Not saying as a startup you should shift your focus on other platforms at all, but are you guys working on an Android app at the moment?
We sure are. Android is an awesome mobile platform and we're coding it up now!
I'd love an Android version of this that hooks up into the calendars that I sync. I love the idea that I can automatically let people know roughly where I am (or more importantly, others are) if I'm running late to a meeting. A cool feature I could think of is that the app can give estimates of how long it will take for person x to arrive given that they are walking/driving on public transportation.

Also, I find it incredibly amusing that the Moojive team is based in Sydney. Knowing the public transportation/traffic there it's only logical that this app came from there. If there's one constant in life, it's that you're going to be late to something in Sydney.