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Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. So happy to have you here, my friend. Don't forget lots of new posts on our site, cruiseradnet, to kind of feed your cruise addiction. So be sure to check out our website there, cruiseradio.net. Coming up a little later on in the program, we'll talk to Carrie McLaren.

She just returned from a seven-night Caribbean sailing aboard Carnival Liberty.

Excited to hear all about that. But first, Mike Jeroe created Shipmate app.

Now, if you haven't downloaded this app yet, you really need to because it's a super cool app,

but even cooler now because he released a

fare watch feature. It actually monitors your cruise fare up until you set sail. So Mike is on the

line right now. What's up, Mike? Thank you much for having me on Doug. So Mike, we brought you on

the show to talk to us about the Shipmade app. So let's take a step back and talk to us about

why did you develop this app? Sure. So we started development about five years ago.

Our family, we're big into cruising.

We do at big family reunion every two years, 50 of us.

So originally it was just built so our big group could kind of keep track of each other,

add to our experience once on the ship with the deck maps, finding people's cabins.

And we launched it in the app store, and people loved it.

So we've grown.

It's been organic growth.

People have asked for more cruise lines, more features.

And now we cover all major cruise lines.

We have tens of thousands of people opening it up every day and it's been a great ride.

Did I read in TechCrunch that Shipmade app has over a million downloads?

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