Digipea, your favourite place organiser
Founded in 2011 by Enrico Bertelletti @ebertelletti and Gianpaolo De Biase, Digipea is a technology startup with headquarters in Pamplona, Spain.
Initial idea
Observing the evolution of mobile technology towards the development of smartphone devices and considering the focus on the web social networks in the last few years, it was clear to us that the basic phonebook embedded in each device is outdated.
Digipea was born to cater as an extension of the phonebook and moves towards something more useful and closer to the needs of today’s users. So:
Why not expand the functionalities in order to support places other than individual people? And why not add social elements to improve our personal phonebook?
What is Digipea
Digipea is a free application that helps you to organise your favourite places in an easy, convenient and portable way. You can use Digipea for your private and personal use or with your friends sharing information and recommendation about places.
Digipea is private: the places you add are private by default and will be shared only with friends you choose.
Digipea is in the cloud: you can access your private favourite places organiser everywhere, with your mobile devices or by web at www.digipea.com.
With Digipea you can:
- easily add new places and related information (geolocalization, pictures, tags, telephone, etc.);
- organize places by category, city, and friends;
- view the position of your places on an interactive map;
- get directions to places;
- search for nearby places;
- add and invite friends;
- call your friends, restaurants, shops, etc. directly from your app;
- recommend and share places to your friends in real time;
- use your friends’ experiences to choose the right place to go;
- stop collecting restaurant business cards;
- stop adding scattered entries in your phonebook in regards to restaurants, hotels, etc.;
- stop asking your friends to write down (and then lose…) recommendations about an interesting place on social networks;
What is a LIKE-IN
The basic idea of Digipea is a geo-localized preference functionality we named like-in. Your place phonebook is a structured collection of you and your friends’ like-ins. If you find an interesting place in your friend´s phonebook that you also visited in the past, you can add a recommendation, making a like-in of that place. We like the idea that like-ins represent the best places and the ones that have more visibility.
Where we are now
Digipea was winner of CREA EIBT 2009 award (CEIN, Gobierno de Navarra).
Digipea has been online since October 2011 in beta version and since December 2012 publicly available in 3 languages (English, Spanish and Italian) on the web and as an application for iOS and Android.
Digipea iPhone app has been featured in lifestyle what’s hot section of Italian (#7) and Spanish (#4) App Stores.