Hotel rooms are like underwear. They’re plentiful, usually clean,
and not something you want to share with a stranger. But here’s the
difference. You can always find a pair of underwear, even if they’re
balled up under the bed or hiding in the bathroom. Hotels, however,
have the ability to vanish completely. One minute they’re everywhere
and then when you really need one, they’re gone.
What’s up with that?
And here’s another thing. How come you can only find burger joints
when you want a steak—or pasta when you really want seafood? It’s
just one of life’s mysteries, like the ingredients in an American
cheese slice or what the Queen carries in her purse. Nobody knows. We
know what you’re thinking. Ever heard of Google?
Actually, yeah. We have.
The thing with Google and all the other locator toys out there is
that they can’t help you when you don’t know what you don’t know. You
know you’re hungry, but you have no idea there’s a pastry shop in
town just two blocks away.
And neither do the other guys.
Then there’s the junk. Seventeen reviews from people who don’t
like the décor at McDonald’s. Vegans dumping on carnivores, foodies
trashing blue plate specials and hipsters dissing everyone left
standing. Here are some other things you probably don’t care about:
the guy who hates a restaurant because his date never came back from
the bathroom, the woman who trashes a hotel because they evicted her
four chihuahuas, and people who complain that a bowling alley’s too
noisy.
Nope, we don’t care about that stuff either.
Here are the only two things that matter when you’re hungry,
bored, or tired. What is it, and how far do I have drag my sorry ass
to get there? That’s it. And you want to know everything that’s close
by, not just the businesses who paid to jump the queue or got there
by posting fake reviews.
How are you ever going to discover the
weird, the wonderful, and the downright unforgettable if you only
ever get to see the tip of the ad-driven iceberg?
So, here’s the deal. We don’t know why you can never find a hotel
when the tank’s running on fumes and there’s a storm coming. We
don’t know why the best dining experiences happen in the most
out-of-the-way restaurants. We don’t know how you can be in a big
city and can’t find a single thing to do. Instead of answering all
those questions, we just came up with a simple one of our own.
Why can’t an app just tell me instantly what I want to know
without all the clutter?
Finding the answer took a bit longer. Years in fact. But it really
is possible to create an app that can give you a list of businesses
based on where you’re standing and how far you want to go. With no
ads, no reviews and no ratings. Just lightning fast results.
For obvious reasons, we called it Finalee,
as in, “finally” no crap.
Finalee is for people who don’t want the clutter. Those who prefer
an aisle seat on the plane. Drinkers of single-malt whiskey. People
who still listen to albums instead of playlists. Everyone who knows
not to mix plaids and stripes and appreciates that less is always
more.
Most of all, Finalee is for anyone who ever searched for
something to do and crossed the international date line to find
a movie theatre “near me”.
If you want to keep track of where you’ve been, you can do that.
If you want to get more information about a business, you can do
that, too. What you can’t do is sing the first two bars of “Take Me
Out to the Ballpark” while you’re waiting for the results to appear.
We’ve tried it. Can’t be done.
So, why wait?
Even Lamborghini’s made a few tweaks over the years, so if we’ve
left anything out, we’d love to hear about it. Nicely. Add a business
if it fits into our three categories or let us know if something’s
gone belly-up. We want Finalee to be as accurate as we can make it
and luckily, adding more content will never slow it down.
Seriously fast, ridiculously simple. Finalee.