Name: Postabon
Quick Pitch: Postabon helps you find and share the best local in-store deals and discounts.
Genius Idea: Postabon takes the location-aware nature of services like Loopt and Foursquare but focuses on finding good deals and hot finds. This means you can find out what places are having sales or running specials based on where you are right now or where you are heading to in the future.
There are lots of great sites to find deals online, but traditional retail shops still have great deals too. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to head to the mall or to the shopping district and instantly find out what places near you were running sales? That's exactly what Postabon lets you do. The service, which is currently limited to New York City (but plans on expanding soon), lets people post and find deals based on their location.
You can use it from your phone or from your regular computer and Postabon lets you search for specific deals in specific areas. Check out this video:
Like Foursquare, Postabon has a game element, only instead of badges you collect Karma points. There's a leaderboard for users who have the best Karma by region deal category updated every week. You can also follow specific Postabon users who frequently post good deals that interest you.
This is a terrific idea that we really hope expands to more cities soon. Geo-location and real-time are two of the biggest trends for 2010 and the fact that Postabon uses both technologies to connect users with ways to save money is pretty awesome.
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