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Pizza Compass
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- washedup 13y agoIt's definitely a slice of pizza. It's one of the sub-versions which is normally called thin crust, or culturally, the "New York Slice."
- yawgmoth 13y agoLuckily the type of pizza will be determined by where you live and not the app. So whether you want a Detroit, Chicago, New York, or Italian-styled pizza, you'll be okay. Writing this made me realize it's time to dig deeper into pizza history.
- tjr 13y agoBe sure to sample St. Louis-style pizza. Being from St. Louis, I'm quite used to it, but my friends from elsewhere claim it's repulsive. The most unique factor is the Provel cheese, which is found almost exclusively in the greater St. Louis area: http://www.andrewmarkveety.com/2010/08/a-brief-history-of-provel.html http://www.andrewmarkveety.com/2010/08/a-brief-history-of-pr...
- philsnow 13y agoIt has come to my attention that St Louis-style pizza can be had at Tony's Napoletana in North Beach: http://www.tonyspizzanapoletana.com/menu.php http://www.tonyspizzanapoletana.com/menu.php I have tried it. It was an experience. I can't evaluate it w.r.t. "true" St Louis-style pizza since I am not from there.
- tjr 13y agoWow! My guess, reading the menu, is that they are blending their own Provel cheese out of the three cheeses it's formed from. If so, then it's probably pretty close, but not quite, as the factory-blended Provel somehow seems to meld the base cheeses slightly differently. But however they are doing it, I'm delighted to see it showing up in California. Thanks for sharing.
- michael_h 13y agoAs someone not from St. Louis, I can confirm that Provel cheese is indeed repulsive. My friend swears that it is manna from heaven. I swear that it is burnt plastic.
- saraid216 13y ago> My friend swears that it is manna from heaven. I swear that it is burnt plastic. What makes you so certain these are different things?
- homosaur 13y agoIt's okay in moderation but like any cheese food, it's more of an aside than a main thing. It's okay raw in small quantities on a strongly flavored Italian salad and okay on pizza as long as you put bacon or something on it and are not only tasting cheese. It's like a block of Velveeta, it's okay if you're using it in a dip and throwing tons of peppers and other stuff in there but to cut it up and stick toothpicks in it? Kind of curdles my stomach. Provel is the same way.
- baddox 13y agoI grew up near St. Louis, and if IMO's counts as St. Louis style pizza, I don't care for it one bit.
- potatolicious 13y agoThat looks like a pretty legit (cheap) New York slice, though how tasty it is depends heavily on where you got it from.
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- aashaykumar92 13y agoCan someone please explain me what the app actually does??
- m4tthumphrey 13y agoIs it not obvious? 1. Search for nearest pizza place (probably using Foursquare) 2. Pizza-looking-compass-needle points to said pizza place 3. Distance updates as you're pulled towards pizza Simples.
- alan_cx 13y agoNo, its not obvious. I personally thought it was that, hoped it was that, but nothing on that site told me what you just did. I had to half work it out, half guess.
- krapp 13y agoIt's like a compass. But for pizza.
- acgourley 13y agoThe http://zombo.com/ http://zombo.com/ of 2013
- oinksoft 13y agoOnly time will tell if it can serve humanity as well as ZomboCom. With this, pizza is possible .. with ZomboCom, ANYTHING is possible.
- austenallred 13y agoExcept it costs $.99
- WildUtah 13y agoHey, a hint. Drop the dot. Just Zombocom; it's cleaner. http://www.xkcd.com/855/ http://www.xkcd.com/855/
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoNo, that would be http://html5zombo.com/ http://html5zombo.com/ ;)
- angersock 13y agoI heard they just closed a 1.5 mil seed round with Andreessen Horowitz.
- danso 13y agoOK, I haven't had time to download the app, but was curious about the description > PIZZA COMPASS IS THE EXCITING NEW LIFE-AFFIRMING IPHONE APP THAT HELPS PIZZA GET TO YOUR MOUTH. CREATED BY A HIGHLY SPECIALIZED TRAINED TEAM OF PIZZA EXPERTS. EXPERTS WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT LIFE, LOVE, AND FRIENDSHIP. The screenshots featured famous pizzerias...so is the data "curated" by the pizza-compass staff? Or does it rely on other APIs, such as Foursquare? In other words, is it similar to other locations (Google, Yelp, etc) services out there, except filtered by Pizza? Cool design concept...but is it really a serious effort at an app/startup (i.e. there's a press kit, accounts for the pizza-compass domain)? The use case is pretty limited...that is, limited to the times when you want just pizza and are in an unfamiliar neighborhood. This is not a scenario that I've found myself in...I either eat cheap pizza as part of a routine at a place near work, or know exactly the fancy-pants pizzeria that I want to go to dinner for. Unless there's a lot of custom or well-aggregated data specific to pizza (such as, what kind of pizzas are there, price per slice, etc), it's probably not an app that I would ever use habitually.
- princess3000 13y agoThis is really overthinking it, IMO. This app isn't a shot at Yelp or an attempt to disrupt the pizza space... It's a joke. You pay a dollar, you get a pizza compass. I think it's hilarious. The quotes on their page about "life-affirming" and "some people might say this is the most important app... ever" tell me that whoever made this app just wanted to have a bit of a laugh.
- pkulak 13y agoHaha, it's so funny! Oh, and look at all this money in iTunes Connect... Yes, totally just a joke!
- coopdog 13y agoThe app is real, but they're poking fun at how simple it is. I can imagine their users are either often either extremely hungry and/or drunk, so extreme simplicity is a big plus.
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- SG- 13y agoNot really, it includes the ratings for the place.
- kevinSuttle 13y agoBrilliant.
- binarymax 13y ago"Grimaldi's Pizzeria > 11ft" That 11ft journey will take you 30 minutes in line, but its worth it.
- benburton 13y agoThey have a location in Manhattan that's just as good and usually doesn't have a line.
- batbomb 13y agoThey have a location in Tucson that never has a line.
- umsm 13y agoA chef (friend) told me: It's good pizza, but not worth standing in line for. When I lived there, I had it and I thought it was OK.
- potatolicious 13y agoThe secret here is to go to the Grimaldi's in Manhattan (20th and 6th). I have been there many times and have never once stood in line. Whatever the delta is between the Brooklyn location and the Manhattan location, it surely isn't 30 minutes of standing around.
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- deadfall 13y agoReminds me of "wheres the ladies at" app.
- nutmeg 13y agoPitch: beer-compass.com Ready for VC funding now.
- frogpelt 13y agoThe shape of a slice of pizza is more conducive to pointing at stuff.
- Systemic33 13y agoShape of a bottle works very well too :)
- princess3000 13y agoYou could use a tap handle for beer. Perhaps a tap handle shaped as pizza, even.
- ryanhuff 13y agoHow about the fizz of co2 bubbles pointing towards stuff?
- smileysteve 13y agoDidn't play much spin the bottle when growing up, did we?
- bti 13y agoToo busy playing spin the pizza.
- JaggedJax 13y agoThere's a serious beer-compass already: https://untappd.com/ https://untappd.com/
- Heliosmaster 13y agoand awesome, too! :D
- andy_adams 13y agoI have never felt so compelled to install an app. Incredible.
- sjtgraham 13y agoI really like the way the video was done, i.e. the video background keyed exactly to the page background, but IMO the video itself smacks of trying too hard. I think they tried to ape the Dollar Shave Club vibe and I don't think it went over.
- CyberDroiD 13y agoYour comment doesn't make any sense.
- cookingrobot 13y agoThe comment made sense to me. The technical approach of filming on a white background so there are no borders on the video is neat. The content of the video felt inauthentic.
- armenarmen 13y agoreally? he struck me as a genuine pizzaficionado
- namdnay 13y agoI think that's the whole point. It's satire
- chopsueyar 13y agoAwesome idea!
- rubinelli 13y agoSomeone should make an app like this for expatriates looking for the closest Starbucks or McDonald's.
- umsm 13y agoI usually just look up and notice the golden arches. There are so many, that an app would take time away from enjoying a Big Mac
- runnr_az 13y agoThat's pretty great.
- sharkweek 13y agoLove it -- Should try a free version with ads to pizza joints all jostling for business.
- Sandman 13y agoOk, HN, I'm obviously missing something so please enlighten me. Why is this on the front page? I thought that it might be a joke as some people suggested , but it's not, there's an actual app that you can download on iTunes. So... I just don't get it. Why is this important?
- peterwwillis 13y agoPIZZA IS IMPORTANT
- xijuan 13y agoPizza is delicious
- chuinard 13y agoI think it's a fine example how someone takes a novel idea like this, charges 99 cents, and probably ends up making a nice dollar off it. No one ever asked for it, but a lot of people will want it. Everyone is always asking to get their problems solved but it shows how you don't always need a problem.
- Sandman 13y agoNovel idea? What novel idea? There were apps that showed you bars, fast food joints etc. in your vicinity before. A lot of them are free, too.
- nathan_f77 13y agoThe novelty is in the presentation and execution.
- dannowatts 13y agoexactly this.
- lmm 13y agoReminds me of http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/02/wheretheladies-at-shows-you-where-the-ladies-are-at/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/02/wheretheladies-at-shows-you... from... wow, really two and a half years ago?
- nick2021 13y agoStupid app. Tap built in Maps app -> Search for 'Pizza'
- format 13y agoThat's what people said about the telephone!
- dannowatts 13y agobut where's the novelty in that, nick?!
- ChuckMcM 13y agoOk, that is really really funny. Spinal Tap for the App set.
- amirhirsch 13y agoI had set the audio on Vimeo down, and I can't adjust the audio volume on your site. I had to jump over to Vimeo to hear it
- Goranek 13y agoThis guy is a modern Delboy
- joebeetee 13y agoHas anyone got a link to Zeus Goremunkist's Github profile? This guy looks legit.
- dakrisht 13y agoThis is hilarious.
- rip747 13y agothe last 10 seconds of the video were a little weird.
- hipsterelitist 13y agoI think this is relevant, since it launched today and no one in the last 7 hours has provided context: https://www.urbancompass.com/ https://www.urbancompass.com/ http://www.businessinsider.com/ori-allon-has-hired-63-ex-googlers-twitter-employees-and-harvard-mbas-to-solve-new-yorks-biggest-problem-2013-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/ori-allon-has-hired-63-ex-goo...
- rhizome 13y agoThat BI headline is all I need to read about this. Let me know when they progress beyond govWorks.com
- angersock 13y agoIs...is that a joke? Am I going insane? Is it a product? I can't tell anymore. I just can't. So many smiling faces on their team/about page...what the christ. EDIT: Some minor looking around... maybe it isn't?
- TomJoad 13y agoBrilliant, time to port it to android. New weekend project: Beer Compass.
- seanp2k2 13y agoThis is great art. It's the kind of art that makes you question your beliefs, the kind of art that makes you consider things in a different light; the kind of art that makes you question your existence and the futility of the world and capitalism. Thanks for making this a reality.
- maneesh 13y agoalmost identical to my app, Nearest Burrito: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nearest-burrito/id575617196?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nearest-burrito/id575617196?...
- yoster 13y agoAfter watching the guy in the video, I think I will pass on pizza today.... No thrills , but it would help if they would have had a sexy model instead :)
- Nursie 13y agoSexy models don't eat pizza often enough to warrant a pizza compass app. At least there's a bit of truth in advertising here!
- D_hemming 13y agoI don't have sound at work so the video just appears to be a man waving a pizza slice around before I got bored and gave up. Is there anywhere on the site where it says what it does in writing?
- INTPenis 13y agoI assume you're being sarcastic since there's a picture of the app showing a slice of pizza pointing your way towards a pizza place. And the name should be a dead giveaway. Either way I think it's a terrible example of the decadence of western societies.
- dfrey 13y agoIf I close my eyes while listening to the video, I see Saul Goodman from Breaking Bad.