Check-in. Coordinate Itineraries. See who's in town. Connect.

Let’s say you are going to visit dear old Mom and Dad in Taipei for Christmas but plan to stay there through New Year’s Eve to take in the exquisite Taipei nightlife “culture”.  You probably could do a Facebook or Twitter status post with something like this:

“I’ll be in #Taipei from Dec. 24th- Jan. 3rd, hit me up!”

But what if you did not want to get “hit up” by i) your crazy aunt, ii) your favorite frenemy, or iii) that guy who sat behind you in high school AP Calculus — all of whom are your so called “facebook friends”?

We are excited today to formally announce the our iPhone app available for Privy members to download from the Apple iTunes store.

One of the original inspirations that led to the creation of Privy was to solve the logistics challenge of coordinating roving itineraries among trusted friends and people you actually do want to meet. Rather than telling the whole world you are in Taipei and hoping they respond back to you — with the Privy iOS application — you can now discretely share your itinerary with the people you want to know as well as find out who will be in town on precisely the same days you are, and then connect with them.

This is just the beginning of our mobile development initiative. With the subsequent versions of our iOS app (and other platforms) — we are creating essentially a “curated social dashboard” that answers what we feel to be three very basic but important questions when arriving in a city that’s not your own:

1. Who’s in town? (not only who’s based here, but traveling to the city at the same time)
2. Where to go? (trusted recommendations and perks on the latest and greatest to eat, drink and stay)
3. What to do? (invites to events hosted by Privy or our members)

Privy members can download the Privy app here: http://itunes.apple.com/ke/app/privy.net/id474274039?mt=8