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SALT — The Pocket of restaurants, bars and cafes
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Brendan Beirne
Nice onboarding process :) Wondering @vivekmgeorge what was the most challenging thing about building this?
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@brendanbeirne @vivekmgeorge Thanks Brendan 😀, we put a lot of effort into our onboarding flow, our users love it!
It might sound surprising, but the most challening part of building this was matching the speed and simplicity of the Notes app. Most of our users were used to keeping lists of places in the Notes app on their phone (or some other clunky mechanism) before they found SALT. For us to be appealing to them we have to work when the internet is crappy, we have to work very quickly, and we have to dead simple/fast to use.
Now, we obviously have a lot of complexity that the Notes app doesn't (place data, mapping, social capabilities, list making, etc). But our priority has always been to make it dead simple to get stuff into the app. From product and technical perspectives, distilling all that complexity down a quick and intuitive experience was (and is) a huge challenge.
Agree with @chrismessina And on that note, why is this better than something like Foursquare lists or Bookmarks on Yelp?
@monst3rtruck @chrismessina fair question! For Foursquare their focus is providing great recommendations at the very moment you need them. Saving places and making lists isn't core to their DNA, it's an after thought. At SALT we're focused 100% on that, so we're able to go really deep and do it better than anyone else. It's similar to Instagram vs FB. Facebook did photos for a long time prior to IG, but bc Instagram focused purely on the problem of sharing great photos they built an amazing product and community.
Does that make sense?
Hi guys! I’m one of the founders of SALT with @ruddct. Thanks @adriangrant
for sharing us on PH!
For some background on SALT, our mission is to create the most seamless, fun way to remember and share great recommendations. We launched about two years ago focused purely on making it easy to bookmark and organize restaurants, bars and cafes that you love or want to try. In the last few months we’ve begun focusing on the second half of our mission, which is making it easy to share these recommendations. We believe that we all get great recommendations for places to dine at, but there was no great way to keep track of them or share them with friends. That said, SALT does NOT provide recommendations - which is one of the ways we’re different from 99% of the products in the space.
Here’s a fun blog piece on how SALT is helpful from someone in our community http://olivethepeople.com/the-sa...
We’ll be around today to answer questions. I hope you’ll check us out :)
Top Hunter
@vivekmgeorge very cool. Would be interesting to import my bookmarks from Foursquare...! Any plans for Uber integration? 😁
@chrismessina thanks for the question. We can actually import you Foursquare lists if you want to move over! You just need to shoot us a link to your profile - feedback@trysalt.com.
And we do have Uber integrated into SALT via our friends at Button :)
@metallungies totally! Same thing, just shoot us a link to your Yelp bookmarks and we can take it from there - feedback@trysalt.com
Unlike other social-mobile-local apps, SALT is optimized for one and one thing only: saving places you plan on visiting. No cluttered interface, ads, or “4.1532 star” reviews. Just straight up places friends and I plan visiting later.
If you're like me and previously used Evernote, check them out!
Great app @vivekmgeorge and @adriangrant. Just don't know how to get my social network to adopt it. It's another chicken and the egg conundrum. I live in Virginia and it seems no one has found out about this app yet which makes its benefits limited for the early users.
Once it takes off though, it will be an neat tool.
@marylise thanks for your input! Have you tried inviting your friends? Also, you can simply save places you want to check out locally or anywhere in world (perhaps for your next vaca). Lastly, the next version of SALT will provide suggestions for places around your current location based on our communities data. Hopefully that helps :)
