Foursquare App Gallery: Increasing your reach and emergent outcomes

In early January, we submitted GoodEatsFor.Me to the Foursquare Application Gallery. It was one of the marketing items on our ‘neverending list’ of things to get done. We actually tried in December but ran into some problems submitting the screenshots and editing our application. As of January 4th, a little blurb about us, some screenshots and our logo grace the gallery.

What happened next is a lesson in emergent outcomes and fascinating to me 

We immediately received our first non-US beta request from ‘A Touch of Madness Victorian Quaffery’ in Observatory, South Africa.

And immediately thereafter have been inundadted with a lot more US and non-US requests for beta invites. We’re trying to fullfill these request as fast as possible and are happy to oblige (we love our beta users!), but International beta users present new challenges and new development items (non-English characters, broader time zone support, lack of International SMS Twilio support, etc).

But herein lies the customer need and we’re trying to meet it accordingly. So bear with us beta users! We’re trying to move towards you as fast as our little legs will carry us! In the end we’ll figure out how to best serve our customers and improve GoodEatsFor.Me for ALL users, regardless of location. Thanks Foursquare!