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Ever go to a restaurant you think isn't a good fit because of its atmosphere? Hoppit.com can help
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- Date Jul 10, 2012
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Ever go to a restaurant you think isn't a good fit because of its atmosphere? Hoppit.com can help
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-- I've got a lot of information -- here.
With everybody first let me show them how it works and -- discuss how it came to be so let's say for instance I wanna find.
Pizza.
In New York City.
-- since I want to say do it at a watering hole that would be -- -- atmosphere you know.
And I wanted to be kid friendly -- so I think my family okay all right so we go to your website click on all those requirements.
And here's what pops up some of them might options there.
Let's see I wanna -- go -- let's see there is -- that conceal my screen John's pizza -- perfect.
So there -- is I was able to pick up John's pizza gives me description of the restaurant has some photos of the restaurant which is great really showed me the five shows me exactly where it is on the map.
Fantastic.
Excellent.
Well right about that -- is a very it's an incredibly specific use case to you know a lot of parents wanted to watering hole which is where they drink with their children.
Not McCain finding those specific on the outs -- yeah I was really surprised because that's a pretty unusual -- -- here I thought it was too.
How did you decide that come -- with -- it dot com.
Is after constant failures of trying to find the perfect scenario whether it be for a first date.
Stanley lunch or even a swanky night of cocktail in with friends.
Among my passion for technology at the best of me and you there had to be an answer to the -- no question where we get tonight.
And I am of racist Cesar yup and foursquare and they just could never give me the perfect Christmas Marion and so we raise capital recruited team.
And build this on the on search engine and we want to make it as simple as pandora is you click one button.
And we deliver you relevant results and we did it spell it -- so we know specifically we're talking about.
-- dot com HO PP IT dot com -- topic dot com great so.
You mentioned Yelp of course everybody knows you open people a million with -- I'll tell him Bennett agrees to those search engines for attending a wig and tell me -- specifically said the difference is just basically come sure.
Their two main issues with with -- and John -- one is that a year overwhelmed with content there's a 100000 restaurants.
I'm in the three major cities in the US and there's millions of tax pastries so the -- information overload.
Couple that was being underwhelmed with beautiful restaurant images of the interior the -- -- to flip that paradigm on its head.
We overwhelm you with beautiful images of restaurants he can clearly see what you're getting into and we make sense of all that.
All of the -- data on on the Internet now when it thinks -- way Rory how do you -- the restaurants are you.
You know working with them or.
-- -- directly with them -- -- a secret -- the picks out the best places in the states.
I'm based on variables with how many interviews throughout the online which blog -- -- -- magazines are covering them and we try to get the best places where you now and with cities we hope to service coming up in the future.
We are nine cities right now on the major ones near Brooklyn and Seattle Chicago's -- Cisco LA.
DC.
-- -- -- -- And we in twenty by the time -- iPhone app launches in early August that's fantastic its second B day and you had -- hit another app called the look -- right yes and that is on all the dot com.
This is beautiful easing us throughout the site you can click that you love certain looks and restaurants it puts -- -- up in the book.
So anytime I wanna -- Iowa and to my friend says they see which we -- a descendant hop dot com slash Steve they seem eloquently they have like this to.
We really want to make it simple the process of going out.
That's fantastic -- could look at the place because it's all about the atmosphere and the momentum through it I do that -- -- -- but living in New York you -- by a flea -- that looks like a good place that when -- go to -- you have it right here in the website okay Steve do you -- thank you so -- topic dot com.
Good luck with that we're really excited I'm that it actually -- my favorite.
Hurry things -- very much absolutely.
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