The tech community has been buzzing with talk about location based services like Gowalla and Foursquare. These internationally oriented startups want to conquer the world by cleverly using smartphone’s capability to be location aware. Feest.je (‘Feestje’ is Dutch for party) has a different take: Location based services should be local by definition.
Is local the name of the game?
By smartly focusing their efforts locally, Feest.je hopes to build an experience that benefit users, spot-owners and event organizers alike. “Most people check in, meet up and discover spots in their own city or area, so it makes more sense to have a local network.” In line with this locally focused strategy, Feest.je proudly announced their first major partnership with Dutch online and offline media publisher (Boomerang) and are looking to expand their base of partners.
Functionality and mobile applications
With Feest.je a user can:
- Check in at a spot to score points & medals
- Rate a spot based on it’s atmosphere
- Follow friends to see their whereabouts
- Become the king of a spot and build a kingdom
- Discover popular spots in his/her city
Besides launching a full-fledged webplatform, Erik Huisman and Aldert Greydanus (Feest.je’s founders) have built a matching iPhone app and a mobile version for Android, Blackberry, Nokia and Palm.
Disclaimer: Feest.je is a The Next Web incubator startup.
Hoping they can pull away from simply being a “me too” product.
agreed… some nice looking badges in there though – it looks the part – plus I’ve been impressed by this and some of the other presentations here eg Hyves as to just how refreshing (and lucrative) it can be to focus efforts on a single nation.
Is it just me or does their design look like it will look great on the Windows Phone?
UI looks great. Lets hope this startup reaches where it has to go.
It looks great and I’m glad to see an Android app, but I know first hand that non-Dutch speaking people like to party in Amsterdam too!
Will there be language options? It is a shame that so many sites assume the language based on location.
Looks like the Dutch Foursquare clone to me. Keep me fingers crossed that they can take advantage of Foursquare’s growing pain and become the predominant LBS in the Netherlands…
Just a copycat app. Like Hyves, tyhe Dutch Facebook, I don’t think this will survive.
Ooooooooh, they’re part of the TNW startup incubator!!!
Now it all makes sense.
Should have seen this one coming though, cause @Patrick‘s face is plastered all over those screen shots.
They should have called the startup rally:
“TNW sponsored Startups brought to you by PayPal”
@Boris: Vriendjespolitiek, achterkamertjes, lobby, hoe
kan ik deze lulkoek het beste omschrijven?
Of is lulkoek de beste omschrijving?
@Boris: You probably worked at Goldman Sachs before you
started the TNW conference, cause you’re hedging your bets
like at Wall Street Pro. Mweh, we’ll just pull TwitterCounter and leave in PressDoc and Feest.je. And just to be sure, we’ll have
@Zee and @Patrick be part of the jury.
I said it before; you should have been above this
bullshit and pulled your incubator companies from the list or
at least have an independent jury. An independent jury
could justify your own entries, but not if your own entries
were vetted by @Patrick and @Zee.
So tell me, were the past winners also sponsored by TNW?
I sure as hell know that Wakoopa was also an incubator
of the TNW.
Now which blog will pick up on this BS and actually call you out on it?
Congrats on the new site Dingle Berries, but I think I’ll be getting my tech news from Venturebeat from now on.
You have to PAY to get into their DEMO conference, but at least you now that it wasn’t only their buddies that got to participate in that conference.
So yeah, what would you rather have, a snowball’s chance in hell or a ticket that costs 500 bucks?
FAIL, FAIL, FAIL, FAIL, FAIL, FAIL, FAIL!!!!
:-)