Don Park

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Common steps

Cafe signs up
Cafe registers their foursquare/gowalla/buzz location
Cafe creates coupon

Plan A

User follows coupon bot.
- con: requires user to know about coupon service
Coupon bot listens to followees for checkins

Plan B

Coupon bot listens to locations.

Finally

coupon bot sends message user with coupon

API Research

PDX Airport most popular checkin spot in portland. The checkins for the last 3 hours are exposed.

curl -u login:password http://api.foursquare.com/v1/venue?vid=35132

<checkins>
  <checkin>
    <id>38869851</id>
    <created>Wed, 05 May 10 21:44:31 +0000</created>
    <timezone>America/Los_Angeles</timezone>
    <ismayor>true</ismayor>
    <user>
      <id>554035</id>
      <firstname>Angela</firstname>
      <lastname>D.</lastname>
      <photo>
        http://playfoursquare.s3.amazonaws.com/userpix_thumbs/IJRHQLWBWGRDK45Z.jpg
      </photo>
      <gender>female</gender>
    </user>
  </checkin>

The bot could have a foursquare account, and poll locations for which coupons apply. Messaging that person with the coupon is the next hurdle. Need a mechanism for reaching them, foursquare doesnt seem to have one. Also it could feel spammy to get notified at random when checking in.

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