Market Opportunity
Safer Walk is a free mobile app dedicated to helping women connect with other local women safely, at any
moment, to share: quick walks through suspicious parking lots, nights from school or work Walk home,
share a cab or public transportation, or just get together for a jog, gym.
While there are endless GPS tracking and check-in apps available, these are responsive and often late
in response. A safe walk is a proactive and preventive approach that discourages collisions and reduces
attacks by empowering women with mobile technology that helps organize spontaneous pairs or groups when
traveling by foot or shared rides.
Product Overview
Safe Walk is a network available only to those who identify as female.
To set up an account in A Safer Walk's app immediately, you need to:
- Upload front and back images for government identification that confirm F for gender status.
- Upload passport selfie to your account profile.
- Take in-app generated selfies.
The in-app onboarding process can take 1-24 hours for approval.
A Safe Walk uses your uploaded photos to verify your identity as a female account applicant, while
rejecting others who do not qualify. This is part of A Safer Walk's KYC protocol which ensures that
rogue users do not gain access to the Walk network. Once you have a secure walk account you can
immediately start scanning your local area for current posted walks by other women within your 1-2 km
range.
maybe post a walk yourself to leave downtown on foot, share the train ride home from work,
split cabs, or possibly just go for a walk or jog.
Technical Challenges
In order to meet our client’s vision, our approach included.
- We built a team of engineers as an extension or our client’s research and in-house experts.
- We implemented a customized SCRUM framework for project management.
- We adapted a continuous integration and delivery model to meet their needs.
Our Technical Expertise
Our approach allowed us to provide our client with:
- An optimized, transparent and predictable development process with defined roles and iterations.
- A continuous delivery model and timely product deployment.
- Superior quality of code due to continuous integration practices that control defects during build and integration sprint cycles.
- A maintainable and scalable product thanks to a properly designed architecture and properly refactored code.
- Enhanced collaboration between product owners and development teams.
- A quality assurance competency lead who is responsible for setting up all test case tools.
Key Features
- Profile Verification- A Safer Walk only provides accounts for individuals who identify as Female with the required documentation, keeping our network more secure for all females.
- Post & Join Walks - With A Safer Walk you can post walks or rides that you are about to make, as well as joining current or standing (repeated) walks posted by other local women.
- Walk Wallets & Rewards - Turn safer walks into rewards when you complete walks or rides with other local women. Unlock discounts, loyalty points, early access, contests, and more!
- NodejS
- Firebase
- React Native
- Figma For Mobile App design
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