What differentiates Shizzow from other location-based services?

The most common question people ask us is: “How is Shizzow different from the other location-based services?” It’s been a while since we talked about how we are different, and many things have changed in the past couple of months, so we wanted to address the question again.

We think of Shizzow as much more of a social service than a location-based service. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to find and hang out with your friends in the real world for happy hours, parties, nights out on the town, co-working sessions in coffee shops and more. The primary action on Shizzow is to “shout out” your location, but to us declaring your location means nothing unless doing so enables you to get together with people for a face-to-face conversation.

While other services have added the ability to shout from a city, photo sharing, restaurant reviews, and more to their service, we’re maintaining a philosophy of simplicity - if a certain feature doesn’t help you meet new people or get together with friends, we won’t implement that feature.

We developed Shizzow to solve a specific need: the desire to find our friends and hang out with them. The other services had so much clutter that we weren’t able to effectively solve our need using any of the existing location-based applications. We aren’t out to convert our competitors’ users over to Shizzow; plenty of people find value in these other location-based services. However, if you are focused on connecting with your friends in the real world, and like us, you need a better way to find your friends, we hope you will give Shizzow a try.