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Gowalla - The Social Map

Keep up with your friends in the real world.

•8 reviews•

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Gowalla was ranked #2 of the day for March 10th, 2023
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Michael Silber
Michael Silber
•26 reviews

Gowalla is a nicely made product, but it needs to hit a critical mass amongst friends and neighbors for it to be useful. I also would have like to have gotten some friendly nudges when other folks found my locations useful, it might encourage me to mark more places.

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2yr ago
Josh Williams
Josh Williams

Gowalla - The Social Map

Great feedback Michael — This is precisely the sort of stuff we're working to improve right now. Truth be told we launched (into a crazy weekend) with just a lot left to build… we're working on hooks like these and others to make the experience better for new users out the gate. 🙌
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2yr ago
Fotis Nakos
Fotis Nakos
•1 review

Congratulations on the (re) launch! To be honest, I was unaware of this app - although I've been using similar ones for many many years - but I'll definitely give it a try. I'm not sure how popular this was in my country but how knows? Maybe now it's the time. ..and may I ask for an Athens (Greece) icon to choose from? Again, all the best!

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2yr ago
Andrew Zima
Andrew Zima
•1 review

So far so good

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2yr ago
Raj Pandey
Raj Pandey
•7 reviews

Good application to be connected

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2yr ago
Carlos Pacheco
Carlos Pacheco
•9 reviews

True story, Gowalla was instrumental in meeting my wife. I used it to plan our first dates and it really impressed her at the time. I hope it brings some of the original features back like the ability to leave designated messages to friends. :)

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2yr ago
Josh Williams
Josh Williams

Gowalla - The Social Map

Leaving messages for people you know was such a cool feature of the original. Can't promise anything yet, but we're very excited about persistent content in the real world. So this is certainly in line with ideas we plan to explore again in the future.
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2yr ago
Seth Williams
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•2 reviews

Thank you for bringing back one of my all-time favorite apps! Couldn't be more excited! Congrats!

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2yr ago
Phil Coffman
Phil Coffman
•1 review

One of my favorite apps is back and I couldn't be more thrilled with this latest version. Kudos to @maxvoltar @jw and the entire team. See you all out there on the social map!

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2yr ago
Andrew Rich
Andrew Rich
•1 review

I was a happy Gowalla user the first time around. When it ended, I moved to 4sq, who promptly let their product stagnate for years. I hope the New Gowalla can bring back the easy fun of social location sharing. Good luck!

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2yr ago

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