Archive: Hello App

After four tiring-exciting-stressful-fun days, we’d like to introduce you to our new little buddy, HelloApp.

The idea is simple: When you arrive at a conference, you just say where you’re sitting, via Twitter. Once you do that, you can …

1. Search for people with a certain skill-set (ie PHP, jQuery, CSS3, marketing, etc) and see where they’re sitting
2. View the seating diagram colored based on Twitter follower count
3. Search for a specific person in the audience and find out where they’re sitting
4. View the seating diagram colored based on whether people are Designers, Developers or Businessmen
5. Earn badges and points by meeting people and completing tasks. If you earn a high enough rank, you’ll be able to post public messages to the entire audience and win prizes.

Here’s how it works …
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[Update]: We want to give a big shoutout to @allisterk and @paul_leibowitz who built aseatapart.com which gave us the inspiration for the app. Meant to say that in our first post :)

As you probably noticed, we’ve been working hard this week on a mini app called Hello. We’re trying to be as open and transparent about the process as we can, in the hope of educating, entertaining and amusing you :)

Here is the latest …

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We’re working our asses off in the next four days to build a simple app called “Hello”. The strap-line is “Turn to your neighbor and say …”, so you can probably guess what it does.

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