Dan Frommer Is Launching City Notes to Help People Find Places to Go
Dan Frommer, a tech writer and editor who has been with SplatF, Business Insider and ReadWriteWeb, is launching a travel startup called City Notes. The City Notes mobile app offers users 10-25 suggestions on places to go in a city. It’s starting with a New York City holiday guide, which appears to “ooze ‘local curation'” with its suggestions, according to Alexia Tsotsis at TechCrunch. The app, which is available in iOS flavor for $2.99 right now, offers users in-app directions, along with the ability to vote suggestions up or down. Certain guides can be posted to Twitter and Facebook. Frommer is aiming to roll out City Notes in at least 10 cities in 2013 and have thematic guides for each (e.g., “NYC Burgers”). He notes that the pricing of future guides will vary, and that he wants City Notes to run on in-app purchases and native ads to go along with guide content. Frommer also hopes to have City Notes available on the Web, with content such as articles, videos and podcasts available. (TechCrunch)
