OK, I haven't had time to download the app, but was curious about the description<p>> <i>PIZZA COMPASS IS THE EXCITING NEW LIFE-AFFIRMING IPHONE APP THAT HELPS PIZZA GET TO YOUR MOUTH. CREATED BY A HIGHLY SPECIALIZED TRAINED TEAM OF PIZZA EXPERTS. EXPERTS WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT LIFE, LOVE, AND FRIENDSHIP.</i><p>The screenshots featured famous pizzerias...so is the data "curated" by the pizza-compass staff? Or does it rely on other APIs, such as Foursquare? In other words, is it similar to other locations (Google, Yelp, etc) services out there, except filtered by Pizza?<p>Cool design concept...but is it really a serious effort at an app/startup (i.e. there's a press kit, accounts for the pizza-compass domain)? The use case is pretty limited...that is, limited to the times when you want just pizza and are in an unfamiliar neighborhood. This is not a scenario that I've found myself in...I either eat cheap pizza as part of a routine at a place near work, or know exactly the fancy-pants pizzeria that I want to go to dinner for. Unless there's a lot of custom or well-aggregated data specific to pizza (such as, what kind of pizzas are there, price per slice, etc), it's probably not an app that I would ever use habitually.
I think this is relevant, since it launched today and no one in the last 7 hours has provided context:<p><a href="https://www.urbancompass.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.urbancompass.com/</a><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ori-allon-has-hired-63-ex-googlers-twitter-employees-and-harvard-mbas-to-solve-new-yorks-biggest-problem-2013-5" rel="nofollow">http://www.businessinsider.com/ori-allon-has-hired-63-ex-goo...</a>
I really like the way the video was done, i.e. the video background keyed exactly to the page background, but IMO the video itself smacks of trying too hard. I think they tried to ape the Dollar Shave Club vibe and I don't think it went over.
Ok, HN, I'm obviously missing something so please enlighten me. Why is this on the front page? I thought that it might be a joke as some people suggested , but it's not, there's an actual app that you can download on iTunes. So... I just don't get it. Why is this important?
This is great art. It's the kind of art that makes you question your beliefs, the kind of art that makes you consider things in a different light; the kind of art that makes you question your existence and the futility of the world and capitalism.<p>Thanks for making this a reality.
Reminds me of <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/02/wheretheladies-at-shows-you-where-the-ladies-are-at/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/02/wheretheladies-at-shows-you...</a> from... wow, really two and a half years ago?
almost identical to my app, Nearest Burrito: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nearest-burrito/id575617196?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nearest-burrito/id575617196?...</a>
I don't have sound at work so the video just appears to be a man waving a pizza slice around before I got bored and gave up. Is there anywhere on the site where it says what it does in writing?
After watching the guy in the video, I think I will pass on pizza today.... No thrills , but it would help if they would have had a sexy model instead :)