San Francisco Bay Area now supported, Shops added

May 13, 2008

Yesterday, we pushed two big changes to the service.

We now offer Outalot for the San Francisco Bay Area. Like New York City, you can simply enter your address/ZIP/intersection to set your location in this area, or you can switch the neighborhood view to the SF Bay Area:

Switching neighborhoods to SF Bay Area

We also launched a Shops category for both NYC and SF Bay Area, which includes categories like Clothing & Accessories, Eyewear, Home & Furniture, Pharmacies, etc.

Outalot Shops Icon


Outalot for Other Cities

March 30, 2008

It’s been a fun and fast first month out of the gate. A lot of things have surprised us — one of them is the hundreds of cities that people are requesting that we cover in the future. Some of these people are where I expected: Around the SF Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Austin, etc. But the many international requests for coverage sort of caught me off guard. Here are some examples:

  • Mexico City, Mexico
  • Antwerp, Belgium
  • Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Heemstede, The Netherlands (I had to look this one up)
  • Brighton, Australia

One of the things we are balancing internally is whether to build deep (make and improve a lot of features into Outalot NYC), or build broad (cover more cities). Of course, the right answer is somewhere in between these two, but it’s very encouraging to see the breadth of people who are asking for coverage. Thanks for all the requests, please keep it coming, and stay tuned, we will be expanding into more metro areas soon.