Signal allows you to explicitly open the app, get your current location, and send that snapshot of your location to someone immediately. That's definitely fine for some use cases.
Zood Location lets you share your location with other people without having to do anything on your part (besides accepting the initial friendship). Then your friend can simply open Zood Location on their phone and they'll be able to see where you are and you won't have to do anything. It's very useful for families trying to coordinate dinner plans after work, determining how soon your partner might be back home to help with the kids and other seemingly trivial things that usually require multiple disruptive calls and text messages.
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
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.
