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2015 · US · Enterprise · Mobile · Consumer · Marketplace

LocalView — a hyperlocal deals and discovery app

A mobile deals + discovery platform aggregating restaurant menus, happy hours, events and photo streams — integrated with Yelp, OpenTable, Eventful, SinglePlatform and Factual.

Enterprise Mobile Consumer Marketplace
LocalView — a hyperlocal deals and discovery app

In one breath

  • Hyperlocal deals + discovery mobile app aggregating five third-party data sources
  • Geo-locked deal redemption so venues only honour offers to present customers
  • Authorize.net billing for restaurants plus multi-tier listings
5

Third-party integrations

Basic + Premium

Listing tiers

iOS + Android

Platforms

01 · The challenge

What was broken, what was at stake

Users had menus, reviews, events, deals and happy-hour info scattered across five different apps. Venues, in turn, had to publish to each of those separately. LocalView wanted to be the single place for "what's around me tonight", with deal economics that worked for restaurants.

02 · The approach

How we thought about it

Two customer problems, one platform. On the consumer side, unify discovery across categories. On the venue side, offer tiered listings with billing and analytics so restaurants could justify their spend. Geo-locked redemption made deals meaningful only to customers physically present — preventing coupon arbitrage.

03 · What we built

The actual solution

A mobile app for consumers backed by a venue-side admin panel. Five integrations (Yelp, OpenTable, Eventful, SinglePlatform, Factual) unified the data. Consumer features: menus, hours, directions, deals, events, photo streams, ratings. Venue features: listing management, deal publishing with geo-fencing, analytics, and Authorize.net billing for premium tiers.

04 · The results

What shipped, what changed

A two-sided platform live on iOS and Android with venue billing and analytics, geo-locked deal redemption, and five-source data aggregation.

Timeline

Phase by phase.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    3 weeks

    Data-source evaluation across five third-party APIs. Venue admin workflow.

  2. 02

    Design

    3 weeks

    Consumer app + venue admin UX. Tier/billing flow.

  3. 03

    Build

    10 weeks

    Parallel app, admin, integration and billing tracks. Weekly demos.

  4. 04

    Launch

    2 weeks

    Venue onboarding content and admin team training.

Stack

Tools and tech used.

iOSAndroidREST backendAuthorize.netYelp / OpenTable / Eventful / SinglePlatform / Factual APIs

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