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See it here on Google Play. See below for photos!
Check out your “Design” recommendations today by selecting the design button. Now you’ll be prompted to add only the coolest local places to your city, which means no more chains. Sorry, Subway. #notreally
Only in the first world do we have such issues as “Too many places to go eat,” but we also create solutions to those first world problems. In this case, I’m referring to Hoppit, a great new restaurant finding app that takes your mood and feelings into consideration, and our top app of the week… (read more)
Hoppit launches in Houston, New Orleans, Miami, and Las Vegas, making us live in 20 major U.S. cities now!
Hoppit launched San Diego last week, making it live in 15 major U.S. cities: New York, Brooklyn, San Francisco, L.A., Boston, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, D.C., Denver, Philadelphia, and San Diego!
Next on the list for our curation team are Houston, Miami, and Minneapolis.
In January, Hoppit plans to release an iPhone update that gives access to Hoppit services in every single U.S. city and town!
Exciting times ahead.
Wonderful day-of-launch coverage from two of our favorite media titans :)
Hoppit, the ambience search engine for restaurants that launched earlier this year, has launched its Android app. With this new app, Android users will now also be able to easily find that one hipster-friendly, romantic restaurant in their neighborhood for their nextdate. Previously, Hoppit was only available on the web and on the iPhone. (Read More)…
20 Best Android apps this week :: Guardian. It’s time for our weekly roundup of brand new Android apps released in the last seven days. A busy week too, with apps spanning radio, social location, navigation, to-do lists, Twitter clients and tabloid newspapers. (Read More)…
NEW YORK - November 20, 2012 - Hoppit, the leading ambience search engine for restaurants, has launched its brand new Android app in the Google Play store today. Available in 14 cities, it’s the only search app that allows you to receive context-aware suggestions and virtually visit each restaurant location. Hoppit’s iPhone app has also received a significant update, including menus, dish recommendations, and online reservations.
HOPPIT’S AMBIENCE SEARCH ENGINE FOR RESTAURANTS COMES TO THE IPHONE
Even in our age of Yelp and Google Places, finding the right restaurant can often be hard. In April, Hoppit launched its “ambiance search engine for restaurants” to make it easier to find a nice spot that fits not just your culinary preferences but also your mood. Today, after a bit of a delay, the company is launching its redesigned website and its iPhone app. Just like its website, the mobile app allows users to filter restaurants by mood, so you can easily find thathipster-friendly, romantic restaurant for yourdate. Another feature that makes the app stand out is that it also offers access to over 40,000 high-quality photos of restaurant interiors.
Sadly, the iPhone app currently only works in nine U.S. cities – New York, Brooklyn, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Seattle, Austin, Dallas and Boston. The web version also offers recommendations in Portland and Chicago.
So far, Hoppit has used its “state-of-the-art natural language processing technology and related algorithms [that] take into account a consumer’s unique situation regarding atmosphere and accompanying guests” to analyze over 500,000 restaurants.
You simply tell the app what kind of restaurant you are looking for (classy, hipster, romantic etc.), who you are with (your colleagues, a date, friends or your 2-year-old toddler), what cuisine you are interested in and how much you want to spend. Hoppit then finds the restaurants that best match these descriptions. You can also filter restaurants by other factors, including noise level, neighborhood and whether local deals services like Groupon and Gilt City current offer a deal there.
