@elan_miller thank you for the kind words!

Thanks @adriangrant! The whole team over here has been working like crazy on this over the past few months, we'll be here all day to answer questions, respond to comments, etc!

@cherif Unfortunately our restaurant data provider only operates in a handful of countries right now (not including Canada). We're looking into what it would take to get the app into more markets, stay tuned!

@ruddct Thanks for the answer. Does that also mean that US users will have limited ability to track places in Canada / internationally?

@cherif That is unfortunately the case right now, though it's super easy to add a custom place outside the US if needed!

@nihalmehta Spot on. Our app deals with place 'recommendations'. Right now the app is focused on what happens when you *get* a recommendation for something (an unsexy problem with high switching costs/a relatively high barrier to entry that our small team can dominate). In the coming months we're focused on the workflow for what happens when you want to share/collaborate on recommendations with someone. Beyond that, we're interested in the finding of new recommendations. The aim with all of these is to: * Treat a recommendation as a more permanent entity than many competing products; a thing you might want to collect, go back and refer to, make notes on or share with others * Display recommendations that are relevant to you, with context * Focus on workflow and community Our app is, now, focused on place bookmarks. Most of the things we've spent time building are generic to other verticals of recommendations, though. That's for even further in the future!

@christyler thank you for the kind words! By focusing on bookmarking and creating lists we can go really deep in this area. For other companies it feels like a "bolted on" feature, not core to their DNA. We have some incredibly cool features coming out soon that I think will blow your mind and make figuring where to eat and drink easier and more enjoyable than ever before. Keep an eye out! Yeah videos are a ton of fun. When we say our community is #1 we mean it. Hopefully doing a few thousand of them, reflects that :)

@stefankp glad to hear it!

@daverad thanks for kind feedback! That's exactly what we were hoping to solve

@alejandrochahin Great question! The short answer is that we focus on what happens once you *get* a recommendation about (or already like) somewhere. Yelp focuses on the discovery of new recommendations. Once you start saving the recommendations you get in the app (which we've spent an inordinate amount of time making super easy), you have a comprehensive list of places that are relevant to you and a kickass workflow for searching, sorting and filtering through them. SALT lets you easily create shareable lists, filter by places you've been and want to try, and leave private notes for yourself. Everything you do on SALT is private unless explicitly shared, so the app is closer to a personal journal of places you like or want to try.

@alejandrochahin Yelp has had a terribly underwhelming bookmarking and organization experience for ages now. Bookmarks is hidden deep within their web app and not much better on mobile. Looking forward to trying Salt and hoping it solves these problems, especially seeing lists of places my friends have made. They seem to know where all the great spots in the city are!

@karanbhangui Yep, that's exactly what we had in mind when we built this. Many large recommendation companies (e.g. Yelp, 4sq, etc) treat places as items in feed, things that are transient and go away quickly. We treat places as a unit of work, things that stick around for a while that you might want to refer back to, leave notes on or share. It's a small difference, but we feel like it's an important one. (That's not to hate on Yelp/4sq/etc, I'm a user on of those on occasion!)

@jhwayne1 thank you Jake! Yeah we realized pretty early on that one major hurdle we faced was that many people kept lists already in notepads or excel files. It helps with onboarding of new users and getting people started with SALT.