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Care2Meet - Finding nearby friends willing to meet up

Page history last edited by Terry 11 years ago

A rough idea that came to mind.

Sometimes on my off days, whilst spending my time walking around town, I sometimes wonder if I am able to have a quick catch up with any of my friends who is working around the area, probably just for a meal.

The problem is, it's kind of hard to constantly keep track of where your friends are working and also I don't want to bother them when they are busy with their schedule.

What I plan to come up with is an application that allows me to notify my list of friends that I am free for a specific period of time. My friends with this application has the option of receiving notifications that I am nearby and is free to have a quick meet up. They can then at a push of a button, reply that notification and a meeting will be setup between myself and my friend.

Open to comments about my idea, feasible? useable?

P.S. Do let me know if you are a rockstar designer or hardcore programmer who might be interested in working on this with me. Maybe we can work something out. Also, I personally do lack the ability to churn out beautiful design.

Looking for Us: Anyone who is interested in helping out/have ideas to help grow this project/think this is worth working for, kindly look for us. We're 2 lonely individuals in black on the 2nd floor facing the windows near the end of the room.

Comments (13)

gather.at does this. And I guess it what Foursquare is good for as well.

I don't understand why no location based service managed to deliver on this promise: "Check in and meet real people in the real world". It seems to be THE usecase for location based services, yet I have never ever met anyone in the real life because of a checkin.

Maybe Google Glass could change that. If I had a little pop-up right in my face saying "Diana is 45 meters north-west of you right now", I'd actually change my dinner plans. People suck at changing their schedules spontaneously.

Thanks for the feedback.

I have not used both gather.at and Foursquares. However from my knowledge of Foursquare, it basically spams your facebook walls with places you check into. Like you mentioned, the likelihood of someone meeting up due to a check-in is probably very very low. My concept works in a way where your friends can explicitly reply to your request to meetup. Well, we might give them say maybe 15 mins to reply if they are interested.

I have also read some comments in the gather.at app. There was a comment mentioning that the use of this app in Singapore is low and some other bugs. Feature wise, gather.at seem to cater to events as well. What I plan to have is just a simple meetup, now, at that point of time. Probably similar to your take on the popup, except that we can have a functioning app now instead of waiting for Google Glass to come out with it.