A mobile app makes sense for one reason: geo-location. Your phone knows where you are, so it can find lunches instantly without having to do anything. And that's the one thing you keep with you on your way to lunch, you don't carry your laptop around usually :-)
EDIT: also, notifications are important, you want to know whether your lunch is on or not. Emails would work too, but that's kind of old school.
True. Don't take this the wrong way: As a programmer, I would also add that it was a pleasure to work with a real UX API again, and not have to deal with HTML's crazy issues, centering text, jQuery, browser incompatibilities, etc. I always had a <div> that didn't quite work the way I wanted.
In the end, a native app looks much better for fewer lines of code (assuming you can stand Objective-C).
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In the end, a native app looks much better for fewer lines of code (assuming you can stand Objective-C).
#1 UI looks pretty #2 Functionality is avaialble to potential users.
I don't want to meet venture captialists. I want to meet other marketers, authors, and artists.
I only scrolled through the startup portion and then said fuck it.
I'll have to give it another shot.
It would be great as a web app too. I'd like to post on my linkedIn / personal sites / profiles:
"Want to meet me for lunch? join me via colunchers.com/########"
They could see what public lunches I was hosting / attending . Or create a lunch and invite me.