Posted by Leticia Lago, Developer Advertising and marketing
Final summer season #WeArePlay went on a digital tour of the U.S. to highlight the tales of app and recreation founders from each state, and earlier this yr we visited India sharing tales from throughout the nation. As we speak, we’re persevering with our tour internationally with our subsequent cease: Europe. From an app growing independence for the aged to a recreation for kids with neurodevelopmental issues, meet the founders of 126 apps and video games corporations constructing rising companies on Google Play.
Let’s take a fast street journey throughout the area, with tales of founders that had been impressed to create their firm to assist others round them.
Growing independence for aged folks
First up is Geert from Belgium, who’s the founding father of Cubigo. When Geert’s grandmother moved right into a nursing residence, managing her care felt overwhelming so he used his expertise from working in tech to create his app. It’s aimed toward aged folks – they’ll use it to guide taxis, days out, order meals, schedule appointments and message pals. Household and nursing workers may keep up to date with their plans and actions, to allow them to present higher help. His intention is to offer aged folks independence, and Geert hopes Cubigo will grow to be a world participant in senior care. Learn extra tales from Belgium.
Video games designed for kids with neurodevelopmental issues
Subsequent up are pals and co-founders Zafer and Sercan from Turkey, who co-founded gaming firm Otsimo. As a teen, Zafer acquired inspiration to create cell instruments for teenagers with studying difficulties by seeing his autistic brother take pleasure in enjoying on his telephone. Quick ahead to his school years, Zafer and his course mate Sercan made a collection of apps aimed toward youngsters with delayed speech and developmental issues. The primary, created alongside particular wants specialists, was Otsimo | Particular Schooling which could be tailor-made to the person’s necessities. Their apps use voice recognition and machine studying to assist youngsters enhance their speech, cognitive and social abilities, with rewards and stickers to maintain it enjoyable. The Otsimo crew have simply launched a totally customizable Augmentative and Different Communication (AAC) app for non-verbal folks of all ages. Learn extra tales from Turkey.
Making residence administration and cleansing simpler for everybody
Final however not least, now we have Maxence and Oxana from France, co-founders of Appsent. Maxence and Oxana struggled to maintain their home clear once they had been each working from residence. Sweepy is their answer – it’s a sensible residence cleansing schedule that assigns family duties on explicit days and for explicit folks. The couple are actually proud that their app has been downloaded by numerous folks with autism and ADHD, who inform them that it helps them to handle their properties. They’re now creating a factors and rewards characteristic, to attempt to encourage youngsters to get entangled within the home tasks too. Learn extra tales from France.
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