Valentine's Day is just a few days away!
In preparation for the holiday, startup discovery platform Product Hunt put together a list of the best Valentine's Day apps and startups. We went through and picked out nine that are the best for couples.
Whether you live together or you're miles apart, these startups, websites, and apps will be perfect for you and your sweetie — not just on Valentine's Day, but every day.
Avocado helps you keep in touch with your significant other — whether you live together or you're long distance.
Created by a couple of ex-Googlers, Avocado is intended to help couples stay closer and organize their lives together. In the same app you use for messaging your significant other, you can also share photos, make and cross off to-do lists together, have a shared calendar, and more.
The user experience is designed in a way that is supposed to imitate how you actually interact as a couple. The app is named Avocado because avocado trees can't self-pollinate, so they need another close by tree in order to bear fruit — and avocados grow in pairs.
BloomThat will deliver gorgeous flowers in a jiff.
BloomThat is a two-year-old startup that lets you send flowers within a 90-minute window. The company's claim to fame is its "ridiculously fast" flower delivery service, which it operates in and around San Francisco and Los Angeles. If you're looking for something thoughtful to give your boo, BloomThat's got you covered: Flowers start at $35 with free delivery.
BloomThat's mobile app is super simple, so even bouquet-inept boyfriends can send beautiful flowers with a few taps. All you have to do is choose a pre-bundled flower arrangement, type in the information of the person who you want to receive your flowers, and pay with a credit card you upload into BloomThat's system.
Can't be with your significant other on Valentine's Day? Doughbies On-Demand delivers something sweet on your behalf.
If you can't be with the one you love on Valentine's Day, do the next-best thing for that person and send them some fresh-baked dessert. Touting itself as the "World's Largest Local Bakery,"Doughbies promises fresh-baked cookies in 20 minutes or less, from Monday through Friday, delivered between 12 p.m. and 4 p.m.
In a Q&A on Product Hunt, Doughbies co-founder Daniel Conway says his company competes against big-name cookie delivery places like Insomnia Cookies "on quality of cookie & service." Others on Product Hunt have backed up both parts of Conway's claim: The cookies are delicious, made in small batches by local bakers, and they'll get to you fast.
The only catch: the person you're sending cookies to has to be in San Francisco, where the 500 Startups accelerator alum company is located.
See the rest of the story at Business Insider