Realtime location share feature makes me remember Glympse (http://glympse.com/) but your UX rocks man, it's pretty easy to use and I really like the interactions.
Great app.
Super cool! My company had a similar situation where we wanted to build a social app with a background location focus but ran into the same battery drain issue. We solved it and ended up pivoting to focus on free efficient location tracking and analysis tools (Cintric.com if you're curious).
Location is a really interesting space at the moment. Marketing and ad-tech use cases for location data have been advancing steadily, using location data to build rich profiles on consumers for better targeting. Many companies even measure the effectiveness of marketing on driving in-store visits and can optimize the timing of campaigns based on when they think you're going to go grocery shopping, etc. In the next year, we're even going to see the ability to use IDFA tied location data to bridge addresses & dollar amounts of anonymous credit card swipes to mobile-ad views tied to IDFAs. Which has very significant implications for measuring the effectiveness of campaigns.
On the consumer side, I've been surprised that use cases for location data are lagging a bit, and are overwhelmingly about a user's current location instead of going a step further into understanding that user or their context. Acceptance of background location tracking is certainly the first step though, any plans to dive further into context with Zenly? The new Android Awareness API and Sense 360 are pretty neat tools for this.
Hi @connorbowlan, we share the exact same vision around data & context.
We had to crack precise, low-power, and realtime location first in order to work on context next.
It's the path we chose to ensure enough user value to justify continuous location.
Now that our users generate a hundred million location points a day, we are able to start learning from them.
In the next few weeks we'll be pushing frictionless content around things like togetherness, predictions and places.
Our data team has been hard at work on the subject for over a year now!
Android Awareness is going to be awesome for that, and we also expect / hope for announcements @ WWDC.
@connorbowlan just discovered cintric. looks awesome what you can do with location analytics. is there a server side API as well? what would IDFA be?
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I got introduced to this product a few months ago; it's incredibly helpful to see in a glance where friends are (and love that it displays percentage battery life left) in real-time. I use it daily + eliminates the need to text "Where are you?" Thanks for building a beautiful product.
On top of having cracked the code of seamless location sharing technology, you guys are bringing new UX patterns on the table. You did better what A LOT of teams already tried to achieve. The best is ahead of you guys! Congrats 🏅
Let's make it happen!
PM me on Twitter and we'll find time for a coffee @bouazizalex ;)
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Hello, I have a question, to know the location of your friends, family, they need to share it with you, right? I guess many people wouldn't like to be monitored by other friends..
You are right @soniallatas.
It's not for everyone just yet, and we are fine with that.
Just like every benefit that comes with a little less privacy it will take time.
5-7 years ago most people didn't have a Linkedin profile picture because they didn't want their name & picture associated publicly online.
Our users tend to become confortable with the act of sharing their location after a few weeks, sometimes months.
They grow their networks over time, and vacations are generally a great stimulator.
They generally start out with people they live with + 1 bf, and only bring in their second circle later on.
Try it out, I'd love to hear what you think after a few weeks :)
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