Software:Down To Lunch

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Short description: mobile app
Down To Lunch
Original author(s)Nikil Viswanathan, Joesph Lau
Operating systemAndroid, iOS
Websitewww.imdtl.com

Down To Lunch (also known as DTL) is a social hangout app used by college students around the world to hang out with their friends.[1][2] DTL hit #1 in the Apple App Store Social Rankings (#2 App Store Overall Rankings) and was featured in many international media outlets including Forbes and a The New York Times cover story on the front page of the business section.[1][3][4][2][5][6][7] Down To Lunch was created by Stanford college friends Nikil Viswanathan and Joseph Lau.[8]

History

After moving to San Francisco, Viswanathan and Lau said they were "working all the time and missed seeing their friends" so they created Down To Lunch as a solution to that.[8] The app rapidly gained popularity and was used by college students around the world.[1][9]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Down to Lunch Founders Pursue Less-Traveled Path to App Success" (in en). https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/technology/personaltech/down-to-lunch-founders-pursue-less-traveled-path-to-success.html?nytmobile=0. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Down for pretty much anything - Campus Times" (in en-US). Campus Times. 2016-02-18. http://www.campustimes.org/2016/02/18/down-for-pretty-much-anything/. 
  3. "College kids are going crazy for an app that helps them spontaneously 'lunch, 'blaze,' or 'chill' with friends, and it just shot up above Facebook in the App Store". Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/down-to-lunch-reaches-no-3-in-the-app-store-2016-4. 
  4. "#DTL -- Your New Favorite App" (in en-us). The Odyssey Online. 2016-02-01. https://www.theodysseyonline.com/dtl-your-new-favorite-app. 
  5. "‘Down to Lunch’ on the rise // The Observer" (in en-US). The Observer. 2016-01-21. https://ndsmcobserver.com/2016/01/92913/. 
  6. "Students across campus are Down to Lunch - The Daily Universe" (in en-US). The Daily Universe. 2016-01-22. https://universe.byu.edu/2016/01/22/students-across-campus-are-asking-each-other-are-you-down-to-lunch/. 
  7. "Joseph Lau, 27, and Nikil Viswanathan, 29". https://www.forbes.com/pictures/fjji45kgdh/joseph-lau-27-and-niki/#582f3e776cb2. 
  8. 8.0 8.1 "This One-Afternoon Project Could Change How You Meet Friends" (in en-US). TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2015/08/26/this-one-afternoon-project-could-change-how-you-meet-friends/. 
  9. DTL, Team. "The Down To Lunch Story" (in en). http://imdtl.com/story.html.