Mapping Real-Time Restaurant Availability: Immediate.ly
Unless you are ones of those people who schedule eating-out days in advance, chances are that you decide to “try your luck” at the restaurant that you want to go and then decide that you need a plan B because that place is really crowded.
If only there was an app for that!
Immediate.ly, the brain-child of Dan Cohen and Chaiyakorn Srisakvarakul conceived at TechCrunch’s Disrupt London Hackathon, aims to fix that by mapping the availability at different restaurants using the Esri API. Interestingly, Esri was one of the sponsors of the Hackathon.
It’s definitely an interesting idea and to be honest, I’m surprised that the Foursquares and Zomatos of the tech world don’t have this feature already. The duo are planning to launch their hackathon idea into a company generating revenue using advertisements and have won an award from Esri for making use of their API.
.@KurtyD announcing the @Esri prize at #TCDisrupt, and the winner is… immediate.ly! pic.twitter.com/6URZJG9lsD
— Esri UK GeoDev (@EsriUKGeoDev) December 6, 2015
Hopefully in the near future, we wouldn’t have to roam around checking restaurants 😉
Source: TechCrunch