Last night’s eighth installment of DrinksOnTap was held at the Asgard in Cambridge. This informal meetup provides local mobile developers the opportunity to put their work on display in front of a friendly room filled with other mobile devs and enthusiasts. Organized by Boston-based mobile firm Raizlabs, the event is held every few months at a local bar. Last night four apps were on display, including two side projects.
Parallel Cities
First up was Parallel Cities, which also demo’ed at last week’s Mobile Monday event. The app surfaces events happening in your city, and other Parallel Cities users who plan to go. At each event, Parallel Cities goes beyond apps like Foursquare to allow you to connect directly with others in attendance as well as contribute to message boards. Based on your Parallel Cities profile information with keywords like your profession, industry and college, other users can also search for you.
Mobilaurus
Next up was Mobilaurus, app creator to a network of over 125 restaurants here in Boston. The company launched out of Northeastern, and in just over a year have on-boarded these restaurants, enabling each to accept mobile orders. The company also supplies restaurants with an integrated loyalty system to run and track campaigns within the app. The company reported transacting $230k in transactions last quarter with a 38 percent growth month-over-month. We recently did a full interview with Mobilaurus and you can learn more about their story here.
Audio Flashcards
The next app on display was an audio flashcard app, created by a developer who has worked on apps for Chipotle and Zinio. (He commented that the simplicity of his audio flashcard app was a nice change.) This voice recognition app is made for pre-schoolers and other kids to learn word association. 3D images, which children can move and turn, such as fruit and . All the child has to do is say the word s/he sees on the virtual flashcard, and the app lets her know if s/he’s correct.
Stop Motion Videos
The final app on display was another side project. For people familiar with time lapse (viewing a naturally slow take at an accelerated pace) or stop motion (frame by frame) videos, this app allows you to create your own. The app controls your camera and takes pictures at regular intervals, mashing those photos into a video. All you need to do is tell the app how quickly or slowly of a rate to take photos app.
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