Foursquare Dennis’ Kennis Crowley unveils his latest venture and yes, it’s another location-based social app. But, rather than Check-in Clareley became popular more than 15 years ago, “Beebot” has 2025 taken with this concept. Instead, the app is an ai-powered “DJ” that can deliver virtual audio updates to your ears as you go about your day.
Crowley describes beebot as an “App for airpods,” although it will work with any type of headphones, as well as smart glasses with audio capabilities such as meta. “Whenever you put your AirPods in, it wakes up,” Crowley explained in a post on Medium. “Whenever you take your airpods out. And when ‘in it’ It will suppress audio sounds about people, places, and nearby events. ‘
To do this, you will have to give the application access to your site and share a few words “Keywords” about your interests. You can also share with your contacts to get updates from friends who use the app. The beebot “DJ,” which is an AI voice, will be able to talk to you as you throughout DAT and alert you to interesting events, landmarks or updates from friends who happen to be nearby.
In a way, it feels like Cwerchey is trying to recreate some of the IRL social interaction powered by the original Foursquare. Beebot doesn’t have “bears,” badges or any of the gambling features that helped Foursquare’s expansion, but it did have a “same spirit” intent. (Foursquare shut down its city guide app of the same name earlier this year, though its login app, Sweat, continues.)
And, because it’s 2025, there’s also a bunch of AI thrown in, including “merging different LLMSs” and “creating veices.” The app is “powered by a tiktok-style algorithm,” Cromeley said, “but one that’s focused on what’s happening around the IRL.”
It seems that it seems that it is a small DNA from marsbot, a living organism that is studied (and IMO is at a very low level) an application based on couture is ready for 2016 that can provide prestined. While beebot doesn’t focus as much on neighborhood recommendations as the four rated recommendations, it aims to effectively inform you of nearby events you might be interested in for friends. In addition to updating the status of friends, the application will draw on local storage and newsletters for relevant information about the given area.
Clowley says that DJ’s audio conferences may “occasionally” interrupt your music or podcast to provide an update, although users should expect to hear this only a few times. Beebot will not interrupt voice or video calls.
Beebot, a project of Crowley’s New Hompan HopScotch Labs, is no longer available in the app store, although it is “a very big work in progress,” according to Cromeley. “I feel like the version of the product that we’re sharing with humanity today is the FourSWare kind of thing that was done when it happened at SXSW – Good execution, but something that still needs to be built by people who are crying out loud.”
