![]() “Drinking beer is a very social activity, but there was never an online representation of that for this particular endeavor. Ivan Kovacevic from Wine&more and Greg Avola of Untappd Drinking Socially One of the early adopters of Foursquare was Greg Avola, a software engineer who came up with the idea to make an app that is similar to Foursquare, but with beer being the primary focus and central activity. ![]() Foursquare allowed you to check-in to places, share that information with your friends, and earn various interesting badges and points. ![]() It was the year of Foursquare, a very popular application launched by Dennis Crowley (the guy who previously sold one other location-based startup named Dodgeball to Google) in 2009. Foursquare + beer = Untappdīack in 2010 social media was just beginning to take serious traction. We recently had a chat with founder Greg Avola who took us on a trip down memory lane and into the future. There’s hardly a craft beer enthusiast out there who hasn’t heard of ‘Untappd’, a social discovery app for beerdrinkers that allows you to check-in to beers, rate beers and share reviews with the world all while “earning loyalty badges”.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |