Here’s a app idea. Let’s call it “The Grandma app”. Ok, so you have to bear with me since in my story it starts out a little strange… but I don’t have the energy to make the story more believable. So… Grandma whips out her iPhone (yeah, I know, that is the fantasy part) but just bear with me. The point is, person A is the person “to be picked up” or “met” and person B is you, the picker upper, the cab driver, or the salesman. So… you want to find someone, that wants you to pick them up, ok?

So that person calls you and says, yeah, come and pick me up. Now, you hit the magic APP button and it “locks” you into their cell phone. So now your cell phone brings up one of the various mapping programs and gives you the standard, “turn left here… turn right here…” directions. THEN, as you get close, it goes into “beep” mode, so let’s say your driving down they road they live on, and it your phone starts to go “beep… beep… beep…” and then when you get within a certain distance from their phone it goes wild “beepbeepbeep” so you know that you are right outside their door!

It would be great for finding the house of some new friend that just recently moved. And it would be a killer app for taxi companies. And of course, a modified walking version would be great for sales people looking to meet a client in a restaurant in NYC. And… there could even be a Mommy/Kiddie version so Mommies could find their Kiddies if they got lost in the park.

There could be all kind of options. The one I thought of first was the beepbeepbeep level. Certainly “close” on a suburban street is much different than “close” on a rural farm road, or a city block, so there would have to be different kind of “close” settings that would alert you when you were getting close. But, this is an app that I think would be great.

I mean, putting aside it’s use by stalkers and terrorists. So you would also build in a safety that would only allow YOU to track ME, if I first called your phone (first safety), and then perhaps entered some app code at that point (second safety) so that you could only track me when I wanted you to, rather that anytime you felt like it.

What do you think?

Cheers! RichGriese@gmail.com