there's an app for that
Update 2 (2016): This was a college project Idid back in 2013. Now the app is no more available.
Update : This app is now available on the app store. Check it out here.
Experience the app here.
Everybody loves parties. And why shouldn’t one. Parties are fun. They are wild. But real problems starts after the party. There’s always a person who gets the responsibility of dropping everyone home after the party, no matter how drunk they are. Now it is up to him to decide whom to drop first and then next . . . In what order should he drop all his friends so that he does this in minimum distance or say minimum time. This problem is not just specific to the party guys. Its a general problem that we face everyday. Like, in what order to go shopping ,eat food and watch a movie on a same day.
This problem has a name in mathematics, “Traveling Salesman problem”. According to this problem, a salesman has to start from a specific point, travel all the cities listed, and then come back to the starting point. And he should do all this in minimum distance. Here the order in which he travels the cities matters the most.This problem is exactly what our guy faces after the party. He has to travel to all the homes of his friends, but should do this in such an order, that saves his some miles of late night traveling.
We decided to create an app that gives us solution to this day-to-day problem. For that we knew that we need some real world locations and distances between them. So we went out to use the best location service on the planet - “Google Maps”. They have the best and easy to use API that we could use. Next we needed a great interface. Now for a great interface,we decided to use Twitter bootstrap. We want this app to be used on mobiles, so we used the 3.0 version which released recently. It is really great, especially if you are developing for the mobile devices.
Today we are really excited to release a beta version “PostParty”. Here is a link where you can experience this app right in your browser. Hope you will like this and suggest some more improvements. All critiques are most welcome. Make us push this product to the perfection.