| Down To Lunch | |
| Author: | Nikil Viswanathan, Joseph Lau |
| Operating System: | Android, iOS |
Down To Lunch (also known as DTL) was a social hangout app used by college students around the world to hang out with their friends.[1] [2] The app functions by allowing users to press a button which notifies friends they want to get lunch and friends can reply back and join.
After being adopted by college students around the world, Down To Lunch hit No. 1 in the Apple App Store Social Rankings (#2 App Store Overall Rankings) and was featured in many international media outlets including a New York Times cover story on the front page of the business section.[3] [4] [5]
Down To Lunch was created by Stanford college friends Nikil Viswanathan and Joseph Lau.[6]
After moving to San Francisco, Viswanathan and Lau said they were "working all the time and missed seeing their friends" so they created Down To Lunch as a solution to that. The app rapidly gained popularity and was used by college students around the world.[7] The application was originally built for the iPhone and an Android version was subsequently released.[8] Down To Lunch spread across colleges and would often be widely used on a campus within a day.