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Glassmap is the best way to show your friends where you are and what you are up to! You can share your exact location and the photos you take with your friends in real time. Use it to coordinate meetings and hangouts, keep up with loved ones, and serendipitously discover who’s around you. With elegant privacy controls, rock solid performance, free in-app chat messaging and more, Glassmap is the best location sharing app available today. Best of all, it is FREE for iPhone & Android!
Features
-Create a Glassmap account and add friends via Facebook, Twitter, your contacts, or nearby Glassmap users.
-Share, like, and comment on the photos that your friends and others around you post. Explore and add content to the world via Glassmap!
- Seamlessly start conversations with free in-app chat messaging and VoIP calling. Don’t have anything to say, but just want to give someone a nudge? Send a Wave!
- Power-efficient, automatic background updating means no bothersome checkins. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life, but our proprietary "relay" technology eliminates battery draining issues.
- Find friends who aren’t on Glassmap via the search function, which can request anyone’s location through a text message to his or her smartphone.
- Intuitive privacy controls let you block specific people or completely stop sharing your location. Glassmap further keeps your information safe with state of the art security.
Requirements
- iPhone or Android (2.2+) phone with GPS and internet connectivity
Features
-Create a Glassmap account and add friends via Facebook, Twitter, your contacts, or nearby Glassmap users.
-Share, like, and comment on the photos that your friends and others around you post. Explore and add content to the world via Glassmap!
- Seamlessly start conversations with free in-app chat messaging and VoIP calling. Don’t have anything to say, but just want to give someone a nudge? Send a Wave!
- Power-efficient, automatic background updating means no bothersome checkins. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life, but our proprietary "relay" technology eliminates battery draining issues.
- Find friends who aren’t on Glassmap via the search function, which can request anyone’s location through a text message to his or her smartphone.
- Intuitive privacy controls let you block specific people or completely stop sharing your location. Glassmap further keeps your information safe with state of the art security.
Requirements
- iPhone or Android (2.2+) phone with GPS and internet connectivity
Overview
Location
United States, California, Livermore
Founded date
2011
Mentions in press and media 10
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| Oct 15, 2012 | Glassmap (YC S11) launches the way for local businesses to make custom location-aware mobile apps | Glassmap, the YC-backed location startup launched at the beginning of the year as something of a “Find My Friends” app for Facebook users, is today introducing a new vertical for business customers. With the debut of “Glassmap Business Solu... |
| Oct 15, 2012 | Location-Based Mobile Startup Glassmap Goes White Label: Lets Business Target Customers With Personalized Offers | Glassmap, the YC-backed location startup launched at the beginning of the year as something of a “Find My Friends” app for Facebook users, is today introducing a new vertical for business customers. With the debut of “Glassmap Business Solu... |
| Aug 21, 2012 | YC-Backed Location-Based Social Startup Glassmap Adds Photos And Events To Its iPhone App | When I first demoed the Glassmap app about six months ago, it was a pretty standard way to keep track of where your friends were. Like Apple’s Find My Friends, but better. The key differentiator then was that Glassmap uses a proprietary, pa... |
| Mar 8, 2012 | Yesterday’s iPad Event Was Only Half The Story | Because of the way Apple structures its major announcements — iPad in the first quarter, WWDC and iPhone in the summer though perhaps with the iPhone, now it’s fall — the iPad event is a little weird, because it’s really only half an event.... |
| Mar 6, 2012 | All The Location Apps You Have To Use At The SXSW Royal Rumble | It’s turning into a royal rumble at SXSW — the sheer number of location-based networking apps hoping to emerge from the conference as this year’s breakout hit is nearly overwhelming. What’s worse, they’re often so similar in nature, so it’s... |
| Mar 6, 2012 | INTRO Wants To Be The LinkedIn Of The Ambient Location Apps | Just when you thought this space couldn’t get any more saturated, yet another ambient location app throws its hat into the ring as SXSW prepares to kick off. Introducing INTRO. But wait, before you groan “enough already!“, you should know t... |
| Feb 16, 2012 | Glassmap (YC S11) launches a simpler Find My Friends that works great with Facebook | YC-backed Glassmap is a new mobile application publicly launching today that presents a viable challenge to realtime, location-sharing apps like Apple’s Find My Friends or Google Latitude. Where those two competitors focus on enabling socia... |
| Feb 16, 2012 | YC-Backed Glassmap Launches A “Find My Friends” For Facebook Users | YC-backed Glassmap is a new mobile application publicly launching today that presents a viable challenge to realtime, location-sharing apps like Apple’s Find My Friends or Google Latitude. Where those two competitors focus on enabling socia... |
| Feb 16, 2012 | Glassmap Maps Your Friends So You Can “Jump Into Their Context” | Glassmap launches today. Interesting name, right? It aptly describes a touchscreen map app. Co-founder Geoffrey Woo says the name is inspired by even more futuristic interfaces. For now, it’s an app that persistently shares your location wi... |
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FAQ about Glassmap
When was Glassmap founded?
Glassmap was founded in 2011.
What has the press written about Glassmap?
Parsers VC has collected 10 articles mentioning Glassmap, among them “Glassmap (YC S11) launches the way for local businesses to make custom location-aware mobile apps” (Oct 15, 2012) and “Location-Based Mobile Startup Glassmap Goes White Label: Lets Business Target Customers With Personalized Offers” (Oct 15, 2012).
Is Glassmap still active?
Glassmap is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 12, 2013.