Travel Startups Incubator is pleased to announce our investment in mobile travel app Tutton, a Mexico startup with an office in San Francisco, CA led by co-founders Oscar Rodriguez and Eduardo Iglesias.
Tutton helps you find your friends when you travel.
Tutton is currently in BETA.
Please go here to become a BETA tester. Tutton will be available in both Spanish and English at launch.
Matt Zito, Managing Partner at Travel Startups Incubator says, Oscar and Eduardo are talented young entrepreneurs building an amazing mobile travel app that helps you connect with your friends and friends of friends when you are traveling.
Say your traveling this weekend to New York City. You open Tutton and instantly you can see what friends you have from Facebook and Twitter that are in New York City right now. The beauty of the app is that your friends don’t need to download Tutton because the information comes from the social network. Through a proprietary algorithm and filter system Tutton in a non-invasive way mines your social media feeds to decipher “where your friends are.”
Before Your Trip to NYC:
You can look for friends that are in NYC right now, even though you aren’t there yet. You will know that your friends are in NYC if they post something with location in their social networks (Twitter and Facebook) or if their hometown is NYC.
Your Arrival in NYC:
Tutton will know that you move from your location to NYC with the core location framework of the smartphone. The app will send this notification: “Welcome to NYC, make a Check-in in Tutton to let your friends know you are here!”
Look for friends that are in NYC at that moment. If your friends have Tutton, you can use the internal messaging system to communicate with them, if not, they will receive the message in the messaging system of the social network (Facebook Messenger or Direct Message of Twitter).
Check-in from Tutton and share it in the social networks. You will know that friends of friends are close to you. This information will be limited, you will only be able to see: Name, photo, mutual friends that are in NYC. You will be able to send a friend request, and if he/she accepted you would see all their check-ins and the messaging system will be available.
Your Friends in NYC:
If you make a Check-in from Tutton or any social network, we will send a notification like this: “Your friend Matt is in NYC, contact him!” This notification will be only made when the user travels from one city to another city, to avoid spamming.
Contacts:
Oscar Rodriguez and Eduardo Iglesias
Co-founders of Tutton
oscar.rodriguez@tuttonapp.com
Phone: +1 (415) 629-2125
Skype: oscar.marcelo88
