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MWC: Swayy app lets you share your future location with close friends, or groups you curate
Given that this week Instagram revealed that it was developing a “Friend Map” feature, it was interesting and timely to run into a startup during Mobile Given that this week Instagram revealed that it was developing a “Friend Map” feature, it was interesting and timely to run into a startup during Mobile World Congress this week that plans to go beyond even that. Swayy is an iPhone app startup that allows you. to share not your current location, but your next intended location. That could be either in a couple of hours int the future or even weeks or months away.
Well, as founder Daneh Westropp told me, the advantage is that instead of having to “constantly coordinate with your friends via text or phone calls, the app lets your followers know where you’ll be next and allows them to figure out if they can sort of ‘serendipitously co-locate’ with you.” That could be just one or two members of your family, a specific set of friends, a group of work colleagues, or just the wider public at large, or rather, anyone who’s also on the app (because Swayy doesn’t have a public-web version the whole internet can access). In other words, Swayy is an app ideally suited to people in large cities where there’s a critical mass of users who wouldn’t mind bumping into each-other more often, for work or play.
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