![]() ![]() In the Chelsea Does episode, Handler discusses the app’s concept with Yeti’s team – including one meeting where she totes along a kid who does a better job of speaking the language of app development than Handler apparently does. Though discussions about building the app have been underway for a year, the app development only took a couple of months, says Scherba. The comedian contracted with San Francisco-based software product strategy, design and development firm on the project.įor Yeti, a firm that does R&D work with companies like Google, Qualcomm and Alcatel-Lucent, Gotta Go was a fun side project for them – and one that recalls Yeti President Tony Scherba’s past where he once built apps and websites for music celebs, including Britney Spears, Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews, the Beastie Boys and others. Still, Handler’s attempt at building a mobile app people may truly like went better than expected. ![]() For instance, the bubble effect where some tech entrepreneurs are disconnected with the needs and desires of a mainstream user base is one area that Handler – with her supposed tech frustrations – could have easily tackled. That seems to miss the mark about what’s worthy of poking fun on in the Valley.īy spending time picking on the fact that today’s bright kids are becoming literate in technology (one kid even likens it to learning a new language), she misses the opportunity to skewer the more troublesome aspects of Valley culture. Some of the jokes Handler makes in the episode fall flat – she mispronounces “Silicon” as “silicone,” for instance, and later uses her new Gotta Go app to get her out of one of the aforementioned “terrible” situations – a coding class for kids. Much of the episode involves Handler’s own complaints about how confusing technology is, and how it never seems to work properly for her. But she also drops in on a few tech-focused companies in the area, including Netflix, Twitter and Wired – the former where a patient and amused CEO Reed Hastings tries explaining to Handler what streaming actually is. The app’s creation and design was featured in the second episode, Chelsea Does Silicon Valley, where the technically disinclined comedian attempts to get a handle on what technology is doing to both our culture and our minds. The launch coincides with the debut of Handler’s new Netflix series, Chelsea Does, which began streaming over the weekend. The humorous, but also potentially practical, app is designed to get you out of awkward situations – like bad dates or boring meetings, for example. Chelsea Handler’s new mobile application Gotta Go! has hit the App Store. ![]()
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