I am very excited to introduce you to Radar, a location platform for mobile apps. Helping launch Radar today is especially fun because they are a part of the first Expa Labs program, are my former colleagues from Foursquare, and have built an amazing product.
Radar helps companies collect, analyze, and act on location data. It seems obvious to teams now to add an analytics platform to their mobile apps, and the same will become true for location platforms. Radar can help teams build better products and services with location, thereby increasing engagement, increasing revenue, or improving operations.
I hope you’ll check it out!
Thanks, @ericfriedman!
Hey, Product Hunt! I'm Nick, one of the co-founders.
We're building Radar because, ten years into the smartphone era, it's still way too hard to build products and services with location. We wrote more about this problem and how we're solving it here: https://blog.onradar.com/introdu...
We'd love to hear your feedback and answer your questions!
@thehashrocket Thanks! @kunalslab asked the same question below, so I'll share the same response: We're focused on native mobile apps for now, since that's where we see the biggest pain and the biggest opportunity to start. But Radar could in theory ingest and make sense of any locations sent to our API, whether from our native mobile SDKs or from a web JavaScript library, from historical data, or from other types of devices.
Hey cool stuff! Building location features is definitely more painful than it needs to be. Congrats on launching this. have you seen HyperTrack.com? how are you guys different?
@kunalslab Great question! We're focused on native mobile apps for now, since that's where we see the biggest pain and the biggest opportunity to start. But Radar could in theory ingest and make sense of any locations sent to our API, whether from our native mobile SDKs or from a web JavaScript library, from historical data, or from other types of devices.
@nickpatrick thanks, I'll take a look at the APIs.
@stevenlu yes, though Algolia is tuned toward search. I like that Radar is focused on location only.
Congrats to Coby and Nick. As others have mentioned, this is an incredible team that's been assembled to pull this off. Excited to see the company grow.
We've been testing radar for a few months @winendine now. The product is awesome and saves us a ton of time - we love what these guys are doing. Congrats @cobyberman and @nickpatrick!
I'm v excited by Radar and what it means for location services. I sometimes feel like we're still pre-search internet for the physical world ... and it still needs to be indexed. Radar is a step in the right direction.
well done @nickpatrick and @cobyberman. very excited to wake up to a PH launch today :)
Whether you're a national retailer or a local bar it always makes more sense to geofence than install physical beacons to drive context and additional commerce, and now it's possible for any use case. Plus the team is amongst the best I've met. Excited :)
Congrats Coby, Nick and team! As a user, I'm entirely too excited 🎉 A few months ago, our team partnered with Radar to integrate into our app. We were struggling using solely the Apple geofences, because of the difficulty in customization of geofences and inability to have more than just circular geofences. To be honest, continuing with that ran the risk of compromising not only the stability of our platform, but the trust we had and would continue to establish with users.
Then Iris met Radar! <3 The support from the team has been incomparable to many other products and the setup + integration into Iris has been seamless—something any and everyone on the team can do if need be.
@nalin Great question. Right now you're required to set up geofences, but we'll be adding out-of-the-box support for these types of insights and events in the future. We have a few customers who've set up city and/or airport geofences with appropriate metadata exactly for this purpose. They've set up webhooks that listen for entry/exit events, update user profiles, and send push notifications as appropriate when users move between cities.
Think there is a huge opportunity to build a data platform for location that is foundational for the entire application ecosystem. Great team to attack this opportunity -very excited.
The location platform the Radar team has built is what true product owners and engineers have been waiting for. Couldn't think of a group better suited to pull this off.
Been planning a location based app for a while, so two questions.
1. The app is web based (mobile + desktop). Can I communicate with your APIs regardless?
2. If I exceed the free tier, will you give me a grace period during which I can decide to purchase a plan, or kill my app outright?
Cheers, and congrats on the launch!
@bitfalls Hey!
1. The location update API endpoint isn't documented yet, but we're planning to document it soon. I'll let you know when that happens! In the meantime, you can see the API docs here: https://www.onradar.com/document...
2. Yep, we'd give you a 30-day free pilot period on the paid tier!
Thanks for the comment!
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