Sip

A social café-discovery app for Los Angeles, where the community rates cafés by what they actually drank.

Sip is operated by Ottoco LLC, a limited liability company based in Redondo Beach, California, USA. Contact: contact@ottocoapp.com

What it is

Every café app answers "what's near me, and what's its average rating?" The rating is the weak part. A 4.3 stitched together from anonymous text reviews doesn't tell you what those people ordered, or whether they even went.

The unit of content in Sip is a sip: one drink, at one café, with a photo and a rating. A café's score is built from real, logged visits — so it's answerable at the level that matters: is the coffee good, and what should I order.

Where it works

Los Angeles, for now. The catalog is built from open geodata (OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps) and covers thousands of real LA cafés.

Status

Version 1.0 is in App Store review.