14-Year Dream Finally Brought to Life
I’m obviously biased because I’m one of the co-founders of Local Blast, but this app is a 14-year dream finally coming to life.
My co-founders and I have spent years watching local businesses get squeezed from every direction — inflation, rising labor costs, food and product costs, expensive advertising, platform fees, and more. All of that makes it harder for great local businesses to offer customers the kind of exceptional deals they actually want to give.
We wanted to build something that could help change that.
Small businesses are the backbone of America, and when they win, consumers win too. Local Blast is designed to help restaurants, bars, salons, shops, entertainment venues, and other brick-and-mortar businesses reach nearby people in real time without having to rely so heavily on expensive traditional advertising.
That means businesses can potentially put more value back into the actual offer — and customers can discover amazing local places, claim limited-time deals, save money, and still enjoy the businesses they love without everything feeling so expensive.
Internally, we’ve jokingly called Local Blast the “Groupon killer” because we wanted to rethink what local deals could look like: faster, more local, more real-time, and better aligned with both the business and the customer.
We’re starting in Tampa Bay, and I genuinely can’t wait to see what local businesses and users do with it.
If you believe local businesses deserve better tools — and consumers deserve better local deals — I hope you’ll give Local Blast a try.
My co-founders and I have spent years watching local businesses get squeezed from every direction — inflation, rising labor costs, food and product costs, expensive advertising, platform fees, and more. All of that makes it harder for great local businesses to offer customers the kind of exceptional deals they actually want to give.
We wanted to build something that could help change that.
Small businesses are the backbone of America, and when they win, consumers win too. Local Blast is designed to help restaurants, bars, salons, shops, entertainment venues, and other brick-and-mortar businesses reach nearby people in real time without having to rely so heavily on expensive traditional advertising.
That means businesses can potentially put more value back into the actual offer — and customers can discover amazing local places, claim limited-time deals, save money, and still enjoy the businesses they love without everything feeling so expensive.
Internally, we’ve jokingly called Local Blast the “Groupon killer” because we wanted to rethink what local deals could look like: faster, more local, more real-time, and better aligned with both the business and the customer.
We’re starting in Tampa Bay, and I genuinely can’t wait to see what local businesses and users do with it.
If you believe local businesses deserve better tools — and consumers deserve better local deals — I hope you’ll give Local Blast a try.
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