Product Hunt@jw! The landing page is beautiful. Great example for others.
You made a splash in the press in early April when you announced your new company and funding. This was before Apple revealed iOS 8 custom keyboards (I think). Was something like Goji the plan from the beginning?
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Simplecast@rrhoover Great question, actually had the same one. Also, Josh has done a good job recruiting and many are ex-Apple so maybe they had some insight?
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Gowalla - The Social MapMaker
@rrhoover back in April we certainly weren't thinking keyboards, but we started this adventure with the desire to create multiple related experiences on top of a common platform and set of tools. Devices and context change frequently, so you can imagine a variety of different ways we could make it more fun to go out and get together. The decision to build a keyboard was a recent one, spurred on by the release of iOS 8. Communicating plans and things to do (and emoji) were already parts of our natural conversation — so building a keyboard seemed like an obvious match for us.
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@jw This answers my question. When the keyboard was announced today, I thought, you guys must be releasing a few apps. I can't wait commute back to SF shortly to try this out.
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ZoeyLove the landing page, and the idea, a bit confused on how it knows what coffee shop to pick though. Is it using location data to find local businesses around you?
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Gowalla - The Social MapMaker
@torbahax the recommendations Goji provides are handpicked by our team, then given to you based on your situation (location, time, weather...). We're just getting started, and there's more fun coming here.
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Zoey@jw Very cool idea, great work!
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Made with Sora@jw nice job, added to http://keyboards.club :)
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Momento 3Nice idea @jw! Certainly one of the most interesting I've seen for a 3rd-party keyboard. On-boarding was also great... up until the point I discovered Goji isn't available "in these parts" :( — is this the entire UK or just my area? What areas do you support?
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Gowalla - The Social MapMaker
@oliverwaters Goji is live today in LA, SF, Portland, Austin, Brooklyn and Manhattan. We're excited to bring Goji to new areas soon. Where should Goji be?
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@jw Chicago! :)
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HiHoI love the attention to detail and the beautiful craftsmanship of the stickers and sound. It makes me miss Gowalla - I had a similar delightful experience when I used that product back in the day.
A couple of super small notes from my first couple minutes:
- First thing I wanted (and was expecting) was for sticker to be included in the MMS. They are just too nice not to. :)
- Showing the text of the previous/next category on the bottom corners seems off as they are covered by the keyboard switcher icon on left and delete option on right (if you've selected a venue).
- It would be nice if delete button in bottom right was persistent (not just appearing after you select a venue in keyboard). When I first when into keyboard I had prior inputed text in MMS convo and I couldn't delete it when I was in the Goji keyboard.
My two cents :)...love app!
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Gowalla - The Social MapMaker
@bracco PROTIP: Long press the Sticker to copy it to the pasteboard. It's a little hack currently required by some limitations of iOS 8.
Other feedback is on. :) Thank you.
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Gowalla - The Social MapMaker
@bracco Also, if you use the Goji App to share via text the sticker *is* included automatically.
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HiHo@jw ahh cool. Thanks for the heads up!
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Knock KnockTruly unique and potentially useful idea. Josh still knows how to make things genuinely fun. Excited to play around with it more.
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MyCardGreat product! Excited to use it more over the weekend.
PS: Please add distance to suggested places.
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LexThis is the best landing page for a fun app that I have seen in a LONG time
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