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 12 months we visited India sharing tales from throughout the nation. At the moment, we’re persevering with our tour internationally with our subsequent cease: Europe. From an app growing independence for the aged to a recreation for youngsters with neurodevelopmental problems, meet the founders of 126 apps and video games firms constructing rising companies on Google Play.
Let’s take a fast street journey throughout the area, with tales of founders that have been impressed to create their firm to assist others round them.
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| Geert, cofounder of Cubigo |
Rising independence for aged individuals
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 individuals – they will use it to e-book taxis, days out, order meals, schedule appointments and message buddies. 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 present aged individuals independence, and Geert hopes Cubigo will change into a world participant in senior care. Learn extra tales from Belgium.
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| Zafer and Sercan, co-founders of Otsimo |
Video games designed for youngsters with neurodevelopmental problems
Subsequent up are buddies and co-founders Zafer and Sercan from Turkey, who co-founded gaming firm Otsimo. As a teen, Zafer bought inspiration to create cellular instruments for teenagers with studying difficulties by seeing his autistic brother take pleasure in enjoying on his cellphone. Quick ahead to his faculty years, Zafer and his course mate Sercan made a sequence of apps aimed toward kids with delayed speech and developmental problems. The primary, created alongside particular wants specialists, was Otsimo | Particular Schooling which might be tailor-made to the person’s necessities. Their apps use voice recognition and machine studying to assist kids enhance their speech, cognitive and social expertise, with rewards and stickers to maintain it enjoyable. The Otsimo workforce have simply launched a completely customizable Augmentative and Different Communication (AAC) app for non-verbal individuals of all ages. Learn extra tales from Turkey.
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| Maxence and Oxana, co-founders of Appsent |
Making residence administration and cleansing simpler for everybody
Final however not least, we’ve got Maxence and Oxana from France, co-founders of Appsent. Maxence and Oxana struggled to maintain their home clear after they have been each working from residence. Sweepy is their resolution – it’s a sensible residence cleansing schedule that assigns family duties on specific days and for specific individuals. The couple are actually proud that their app has been downloaded by plenty of individuals with autism and ADHD, who inform them that it helps them to handle their houses. They’re now growing a factors and rewards function, to attempt to encourage kids to become involved within the home tasks too. Learn extra tales from France.
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