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Ann Arborite rallies local entrepreneurs to create MeetMe app

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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Lots of companies are making applications for iPhones these days. Ann Arbor resident Gregg Hammerman is organizing entrepreneurs and companies to make a new iPhone app - MeetMe.

Among the contributors are entrepreneurs like Oakland County-based Adam Finkel and Royal Oak-based Vectorform. So even though Hammerman came up with the concept, the father of two who works almost 80 hours a week for gloStream knew he had to bring in help to make MeetMe a reality. And its help he could see working together to develop more technology in the future.

"I could see this casual group of guys saying, 'Here is a cool idea. Who's in and who's out?'" Hammerman says.

MeetMe specializes in finding the right place for two people to meet halfway between each other. It utilizes the likes of Yelp and Google maps to find an area halfway between two distant points to meet and which is best place to take that lunch/dinner/coffee meeting.

Since Hammerman lives in Ann Arbor but works in Oakland County, he spent a lot of time staring at Google maps to find a good halfway point to meet people for business. He knew there had to be a more efficient way of doing this, and MeetMe was born this spring.

Source: Gregg Hammerman, co-creator of MeetMe
Writer: Jon Zemke