Welcome to Hoopla Nation- We are the only start up in the world dedicated to being able to provide an adult beverage upon a location based check-in by a friend.
We want you and your friends to have fun! I thought of this idea because after college my friends and I went to different areas of the US to work and start a life. I miss the days when I could go out with my buddies and we would buy each other beers and have a fun night. I suppose I can do this now with the advancements in tech but lets be honest I'm a little too lazy to pick up the phone and call the bar, and buying a gift certificate is for girls and wives to send in a card for someones birthday.
Yes Yes there are a number of buy your friend a drink applications, or send a beer, or lets see TGIF's buy your Facebook friend a beer, however they are not universal and it takes some effort to actually find a bar that accepts them.
I hope to change that but it is a tough road, who knew the market would be so fragmented with quite a few POS vender's, and since the mobile pay game is so "new" the market lacks a leader in the space to tie into. There are so many pay platforms out there that we wont have an issue tieing into one of a million but as far as delivery and validation that will be a hard issue on a massive scale.
We know its easy to build an app then go bar by bar signing people up, whats a lot more interesting is creating something where a bar can self provision, we create a universal approach for every bar/restaurant, this is where we will separate ourselves from the 'newbie's" in the market. An example of a company already doing this is Tabbedout, one day Ill have to reach out to them and understand how they got the attention of Micros.....
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