According to a tweet from co-founder Ronald Ishak, the food-tasting app Tasterous has officially launched their Android app available for download from Google Android Market.
Tasterous is basically a new location based food hunting mobile game that will lead you to the best local dishes nearby. A discovery tool for food lovers trying to find new variety of food surrounding them, and also with a gaming mechanism involved. A charming concept, although the execution is really slow responded with dissatisfaction from early anticipating users. We would have to wait until it’s fully and publicly launched to really see the users’ response to the service.
The Android app basically lets you upload photos of food and which restaurant you got them from, share the info with your friends. The goal is simply to see what others are having, as well as sharing to other what you’re having. And to be honest, it’s a very niche market with limited benefit for foodies only.
Tasterous launched slowly since April and has been gaining slow user growth so far, despite the huge anticipation for the food startup. Founded by a high-profil young businessmen Ronald Ishak, Tasterous was one of the most anticipated startup in Indonesia after Ronald left his previous venture Domikado to found Tasterous together with ex-Urbanesia Deche Pangestu.
They even got to add big names such as Kaskus CEO Ken Lawadinata and Urbanesia CEO Selina Limman to their board of director, giving even more attention to the then stealth startup.
