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By Zaid Al Husseini, VP of Product, Gogobot
Most of the apps on your phone are old school. They haven’t gone past search. They require hunting and pecking. They’re generic search-based products that help you find things, but you need to know what you’re searching for in order for them to be “helpful,” and even after searching, they show generic results targeting the lowest common denominator. All that tapping around can get old and is a complete time suck for you.
We want you to spend your time having amazing experiences, not searching for them on your tiny bright screen. Enter the new Gogobot App for iOS …a smarter way to discover places to go and things to do.
Imagine it’s Saturday morning and the sun is shining bright on a balmy 70° San Francisco day. There are an endless number of options for a great weekend, but you don’t want to waste precious time staring at a phone, searching and searching. Without lifting a finger, Gogobot is sentient paying close attention to your context, predicting what you might be looking for and surfacing it for you automatically.
The new Gogobot app uses a combination of contextual signals like the time of day, weather, location (if you’re at home or traveling) and your tribes (your personal style) to automatically give you recommendations. If it’s warm and sunny, you can “Get Outside” and enjoy the nice weather at one of SF’s great weather hangouts like Dolores Park or Baker Beach. Another option is to “Get Caffeinated” with some great coffee shops like Philz Coffee or Blue Bottle. Or perhaps you’d prefer to enjoy a great meal at one of SF’s awesome “Breakfast and Brunch Spots.” If you have kids, it recommends fun events to take the little ones to.
No more searching, hunting or pecking. Gogobot’s intelligent assistant provides instant ideas in real time for how to have the most fun today. The new Gogobot App for iOS is like having a personal assistant in your pocket who is able to give you intelligent recommendations on what to see and where to go all day, every day, rain or shine.
Our brand new app helps you explore your current surroundings paying close attention to the current context and moment you’re in (whether you’re just hanging out at home in San Francisco or off on an epic vacation in Singapore). Your new Gogobot home screen is all about opportunities… it’s purely focused on what you can discover today, so you can spend your day doing (not planning) and make the most of your free time.
Gogobot puts you in control of what you might want to explore next. If you’re a local, we’ll skip the tourist traps and serve up hip new places that might be a fit for you. If you’re in a city that’s new to you, we’ll still dig up local treasures for you, but we’ll also include some of the must see spots too. When it’s sunny outside, we might suggest parks or hikes that are nearby. If it’s raining we’ll suggest creative things you can do indoors like visiting museums or interesting new coffee shops. When you can almost taste the weekend (for most of us that’s Wednesday, Thursday and Friday), we’ll start shifting your view of the app to focus on local getaways that are within a few short hours of your current home base; from San Francisco that could be places like Napa & Sonoma Valley, Half Moon Bay and Tahoe, so you can seamlessly plan a romantic staycation or a fun family weekend outing.
We know context matters, so this latest version of Gogobot’s app is meant to be smart; finding you the right thing to do at the right time. During the daytime it focuses on activities you might want to partake in after you’ve had your Wheaties, things like coffee shops, museums, etc. At night, Gogobot’s app will suggest night owl activities like bars, clubs or late night bites.
If you are looking for something more specific, we have also included a new lightning fast map based search product that lets you drill down into a specific neighborhood to find the perfect place to go. You will always have the option to search for something specific if that’s what you’re in the mood for; things like Italian Restaurants or Museums Nearby, and we’ve made it easy for you with our new and improved map search.
Best of all, this incredible new functionality is layered on top of the wonderful foundation you already have come to know and love from Gogobot. When the Gogobot app (a.k.a your pocket assistant) serves up recommendations, it will also be doing so based on the Gogobot Tribes you have selected, so if you’re a Budget / Family Traveler you’ll see completely different recommendations than your buddy who is a Luxury Traveler / Nightlife Lover / Wellness tribes member.
Oh, and did we mention this is all free? Yep, that’s right. Gogobot’s new app does all of this for you for free. Phew. Aren’t you glad you don’t have to worry about digging around in your pockets to tip it? We thought so.
These features are now live on our iOS app and will be coming to our Android app soon.
Adventure On.
Source: gogobot.com