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As you surely know, WhatsApp already has this feature ("Live location"). I'm not sure that it's E2EE in WhatsApp, but I would say so. What does Zood Location offer over this? There's value in having a minimal app for the sake of it, but I would expect your userbase to be a small niche for consumers. There might be better vistas in B2B. See also this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25354165

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Hi hiq. I think WhatsApp's Live Location definitely satisfies many use cases. The biggest distinction I see between it and Zood Location is that Zood shares your location continuously, which is useful for families. The sharer doesn't have to re-enable the share every 8 hours. Zood also has an expiring share feature called Timed Sharing [1]. Zood will generate a link you can send to anybody (no Zood required) and the recipient(s) can view your real time location via any web browser, all end-to-end encrypted.

> There might be better vistas in B2B.

That may indeed be the case. It's something I need to investigate further.

[1] https://ara.sh/private/hn-zood-timed-share.png

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