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Quality GPTs - Custom designed GPTs for businesses

QualityGPTs

GPTs, personalized for you.
Agency providing easy to use AI tools to small businesses.

Spot It Out - mobile location based services

Spot It Out

Apps and Content Publishing for Location Aware Devices (GPS, phones)
We publish premium content onto location aware devices and services. Our first suite of consumer products are expert branded GPS Travel Guides and GPS Voices. We have developed and are actively selling a broad selection of GPS Travel Guides from Travel Channel, ...

Strayte - location based services local personal data events

Strayte

Comprehensive and tailored event search
MVP: -We will aggregate and organize all events in major metropolitan areas by collating event listings from city specific resources with citation then tagging them with interest tags to organize when browsing. -Visitors to Strayte will be able to browse broad ...

Stylisted - location based services marketplaces beauty

Stylisted

Premier marketplace for in-home beauty service delivery
Stylisted is a website and mobile application that allows women to book in-home hair styling and makeup appointments from a network of vetted freelance beauty professionals. Women want the help of skilled makeup artists and hairstylists for special event preparation, ...

ComVey - location based services mobile advertising loyalty programs market research

ComVey

Location-based loyalty program
How does your local coffee shop tell you they have this great new egg sandwich? TV is too expensive Radio/Newspapers are dying So how do they do it?? They use ComVey! ComVey enables local stores to take a picture of their products/services/branding and send ...

Donde - mobile SaaS location based services bridging online and offline

Donde

Location technology platform
Donde is a mobile marketing platform for brands and retailers that helps drive foot traffic, improve mobile SEO performance and deliver an omnichannel strategy. Our location aware technology understands location, dynamically delivers relevant content and measures ...

HaveMyShift - location based services finance online scheduling curated web

HaveMyShift

Social shift trading for hourly workers
HaveMyShift is an online marketplace for the 74 million hourly workers in America. The company allows workers to trade shifts with their coworkers, giving them the option to choose a work schedule that fits their personal goals. HaveMyShift has helped nearly 7,000 ...

MeetBall - location based services concerts software sports stadiums

MeetBall

Real-time location sharing
Finding friends at large social events like football games and concerts is challenging, stressful, and time-consuming. Despite 180 million smartphones in use in the US, it remains challenging to find friends in crowded venues. In addition, brands need better ...

Lowcost Email cheap flights alerts

NowBoarding ✈️

Invite-only mailing list.
We search the best weekend and long-haul flight deals so you can book before everyone else.

Portalhut - enterprise software location based services employment Social Network

Portalhut

Map-Based Job Search(Foursquare) with Social Network Traits(Facebook)
Portalhut is a map-based job searching platform that helps businesses find jobseekers and jobseekers find open job positions. It utilizes the features of what you may see in other social network platforms. Jobseekers can directly apply to the job position that ...

Jabalong - social media location based services social media platforms

Jabalong

Geo Networking: ANY Time, ANY Place
Jabalong is a patent pending real time geonetworking application that allows people to connect to groups, events, and organizations through geocentric Jabberboxes. By using Jabalong, any place can become a new networking spot. Users can communicate even after ...

Clover Mobile Ventures - mobile social media location based services professional networking

Clover Mobile Ventures

The Better Professional Networking Mobile App
Clover promotes real connections by setting up in-person meetings. We link people through warm introductions or prior connection, so that Clover is a great way to meet people you know will be interesting and to stay in touch with your network. Thanks to mobile ...

Divvey.Space - e-commerce location based services retail technology commercial real estate

Divvey.Space

Space Sharing for Retailers
While e-commerce retail sales are a multi-billion dollar industry, e-commerce still makes up less than 10% of all retail sales made in the US. Consumers still want to touch, smell, taste products before making a final purchase. DIVVEY.SPACE helps these business ...

sitterworks - location based services families parenting kids

sitterworks

eHarmony Meets Sittercity
Sitterworks.com is a new website focused on matching parents with the right sitters and nannies for their families. With comprehensive caregiver questionnaires that cover over 60 areas, multiple background check options and a local online community—Sitterworks.com ...

Invitation codes

The referral community
Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.

Celebrity Spotter - mobile location based services photo sharing gps

Celebrity Spotter

Connecting you with stars
Celeb Spotter - Finding celebrities with a tap. What does it do? - Helps fans, photographers, and journalist find musicians, models, and athletes with a tap of a button. - Makes the world more open when it comes to connecting with stars. - Localization safety ...

Whittl - location based services marketplaces

Whittl

Book all of your local services online
Search and book appointments instantly for all of the services you need in Chicago. From hair cuts to yoga classes, Whittl is where to-dos get done.

Aidhenscorner.com - e-commerce location based services mobile commerce local services

Aidhenscorner.com

Local Services Connector (Uber)
Aidhenscorner is an on-line concierge service for all things kids. We focus on making the power to discover amazing things to do with your kids more accessible. We are to parents and adults with kids in their life, as Uber is to Riders. The world of an adult ...

DinnDinn - social media location based services food and beverages local

DinnDinn

Friends sharing food
DinnDinn is a virtual fridge for all the drinks, dishes, and desserts you love or hate! Make sure to choose the tastes you like on the 'tongue' inside your profile, it will help you find TasteBuds with the same tastes as you and even dishes, drinks, or desserts ...

Goshi - mobile location based services mobile commerce social commerce

Goshi

The mobile storefront to your neighborhood.
Goshi is the community-curated storefront to your neighborhood, a smartphone application for browsing, discovering, and buying the interesting items nearby. These items are surfaced with the 'original social graph,' the people in your community who share your tastes. ...

swigBIG - location based services wine and spirits loyalty programs social commerce

swigBIG

Making brand loyalty social
swigBIG is an early stage geo-based platform that aims to engage customers with brands and venues by offering rewards that accelerate when they complete loyalty acts such as Likes, Shares, Tweets, etc. To further deepen user engagement, we have gamified this experience ...

Postster.com - location based services marketplaces local social commerce

Postster.com

Discover great local deals, places, and things
Postster is transforming the way that consumers discover, review, and share the best products and services the world has to offer.

NuPal - analytics location based services social media platforms targeted advertising

NuPal

social discovery platform
NuPal…social decision-making, made easy. NuPal is a hyper-local discovery platform that allows users to connect with and discover the world around them. The app is simple—it introduces you to other people who share similar interests, and recommends the best, most ...

Earshot - location based services social media monitoring social crm social media management

Earshot

Location-based customer acquisition
Earshot™ helps leading brands more effectively manage, interpret, and respond to social media posts being created at or nearby designated locations of interest. Through the Earshot social media processor and proximity-based intelligence platform, brands can ...

Pinpoint - location based services photo sharing private social networking event management

Pinpoint

Find My Friends + events and photos
Pinpoint is a private social networking application for iOS and Android that lets you create an event with your friends and view their locations during the event. You can also take photos, which will sync across all attendee's devices. Pinpoint also offers convenient ...

Project Selfridge - e-commerce location based services mobile commerce social commerce

Project Selfridge

Giving the power of shopping negotiation back to the consumer.
Project Selfridge is a stealth mode start-up spinning out of the Incisent Labs Group. We are working to revolutionize online shopping by building a team, technology, and culture that seeks to disrupt one of the largest consumer verticals, one which is ripe for ...

Grabio - mobile location based services mobile commerce marketplaces

Grabio

Location-based Marketplace
Grabio is a mobile marketplace where you can buy or sell things with people and businesses nearby. Grabio addresses some of the issues users have encountered with Craigslist: mobility,location-awareness,search efficiency,transparency and safety. With our user ...

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