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by bravo_sierra 5780 days ago
Definitely useful. Love the simplicity of it. Foursquare and Gowalla have too much going on, and it's weird to pull out your Spot at a restaurant.

One enhancement might be to use the location of your friend to get directions to each other.

Charging for something like mobileply.com/matt sounds like a good idea too.

My other thought comes from how Spot does it - they use passwords to make sure you can't get in just by knowing the URL. You could even mix that up so the password you give your mum only lets her know you're in Chicago, while someone else can see you're on 42nd & Grand. Maybe that's too much though.

The simplicity of it is the best part - keep it up.