What is Open After 10PM - GeoSpot Upgrades the Public Beta of Its Deep Local Search and Exploration Web Site

We just got out a press release showing recent improvements of the search here at prnewswire or you can also see it at our site.

Peter Braun

What Is Open After 10PM – GeoSpot Public Beta

With GeoSpot, you can find places that are open now or at a specific time (e.g. after 10pm).
But GeoSpot search goes beyond simple "open" and "closed" hours. What if the place offers multiple services and they do not open and close at the same time? In fast food outlets, the drive-thru may be still open while the dine-in has already closed. In supermarkets, the store itself may be open but the bakery department has already closed.

It has been over a month since geospot.com opened for the general public. We have been busy acting on your feedback and making the search more user-friendly and better.

So what is GeoSpot about?
There are many local search web sites, but none lets you search by open hours. They give you a list of places and then have you painfully check them, one by one, to find which ones are open. And they may not find any. We decided to solve this pain:

With GeoSpot, you can find places that are open now, at a specific time (e.g. after 10pm), 24 hours/day or search without specifying hours.

And the results are clear:
- the place is open, - the place is closed. But GeoSpot search goes beyond simple open and closed hours. What if the place offers multiple services and they do not open and close at the same time? In fast food outlets, the drive-thru may be still open while the dine-in has already closed. In supermarkets, the store itself may be open but the Bakery department has already closed. We use for places where some services are available while others are not and for places that will be closing soon. In cases where we do not have hours, we leave the place blank. Those may or may not be open. (We are hard at work to minimize the number of such places.)

Let's see how it works:
For example, are there bars open after midnight, midweek in Palo Alto, CA? Not many, and you can find them easily with our service.

In the evening, Starbucks are gradually closing. Which ones are still open?

Many stores have multiple departments and services and their hours vary. Do you want to find a bakery after 8pm? You may want to check Safeway, it closes late, but is the bakery department still open?

So far, we have focused on the San Francisco Bay Area and the food offerings - stores and restaurants and bars (well, bars are more about drinks...). We want to know how everything works for users before we expand to the rest of the US and other products and services. Tell us what you think at this blog or message us directly.

Have fun with it :)

Peter Braun